Golf

It was quite the golf year for University of Minnesota graduate Jon Trasamar, who started his senior Gopher season by dominating the 81st Pine to Palm Golf Tournament field and capping it with a Big 10 Conference championship. Those two bookend accomplishments framed a senior season...

It will be a typical strong field of play during the 82nd Pine to Palm Golf Tournament, which will start Monday, Aug. 11, at the Detroit Country Club. Although there will be plenty of new players vying for one of the many divisional championships, the numbers will be strong as...

It was a rare sweep for the University of Minnesota’s senior Jon Trasamar, as he joined some elite company after winning each the 81st Pine to Palm Golf Tournament’s medalist honors and the championship, something which was only done three times since 1985. The Gopher golfer...

Perry Piatz found out that steady and consistency can win one championships. Piatz’ par-like golf game earned him the Pine to Palm Golf Tournament’s Mid-Am division, after his 5 and 3 victory over Fargo’s Jay Olafson, who has won two titles in the past four years. “I...

It wasn’t the best timing for Fargo’s Tim Rubis, after he was told by his doctor last Monday that he needed hip-replacement surgery. The news came on the same week Rubis was going to play in the Pine to Palm Golf Tournament’s Senior division, but he was battling the pain...

PGA professional and NDSU record holder Amy Anderson spent the afternoon at Lakeside Golf Club in Perham Friday as part of the 30th annual Tuffy Nelson Classic tournament. Anderson is sponsored by KLN Family Brands of Perham and made a stop at the tournament to compliment the generosity...

Dalton Kohler was the first boys’ golfer to make the state tournament for Lake Park-Audubon in over a decade and represented the Raiders with a strong showing at the Class 1A state meet last week. Kohler’s first goal at the state was to have fun and just do the best he could. The...

The progression the Detroit Lakes girls’ golf team was able to accomplish over the course of the last five years was like no other seen on the high school level. In 2010, as one girls’ golf dynasty was running strong as Minnewaska was winning its fifth-consecutive state championship,...

Coming off an all-time Minnesota state record of 284 in the South Sub-Section meet last week, the Detroit Lakes girls’ golf team dialed it down a bit, but still easily claimed their fifth-straight Section 8-2A championship Tuesday at Longbow Golf Course in Walker. All six Lakers...

All good things came to an end for the Detroit Lakes boys’ golf team, after the Lakers were blanked out from the Class 2A state meet. The Lakers’ four-year run as Section 8-2A champions was halted Tuesday at Longbow Golf Course in Walker, after finishing third, with no DL individuals...

A 10-year drought was ended for the Lake Park-Audubon boys’ golf team last Thursday in Perham during the Section 8-1A boys’ golf meet, as senior Dalton Kohler played his way into the Class 1A state meet. Kohler’s state-berth score of 83 snaps over a decade long streak where...