Golf
SDGA Sanford Golf Series Championship – Minnehaha CC in Sioux Falls, SD GGID: SGS24CHAMP
[27 boys / 15 girls]
SIOUX FALLS, SD (HubCityRadio.com) – It was a familiar finish with two of the best junior female golfers in the state of South Dakota for the SDGA Sanford Series Championship; unfortunately for Aberdeen’s Olivia Braun, it had the same final difference: coming up one stroke short.
Braun got a chance to observe the field, with a noon tee time and for a good amount of the day, Miller’s Jayce Pugh was the leader in the clubhouse. Pugh eventually finished in third place, carding a [+3, 76] with two bogey’s & a double bogey on the final hole. Braun shot an even par on the front nine and she was in line for the championship, even drilling a birdie on the par five 12th hole. Braun was three strokes ahead of Meyerink with five holes to play, but down the stretch, she came up short. She would bogey 14, 15, 17 & 18 with a birdie on 16. Coming up one stroke behind Mitchell’s Allison Meyerink.
Meyerink defeated Braun during the state AA championship back on June the 4th in Yankton by one stroke and did it again on Monday from Sioux Falls. Meyerink was steady on the final five holes, netting a birdie on the par four 14th hole and would par the final four holes en route to the championship.
On the boys side, Watertown’s Jake Olson would be the medalist for the day, carding a [-3, 68] and one stroke ahead of Riley Christensen from Sioux Falls. Olson picked up four birdies on the front nine & a pair of birdies on the back.
GIRLS RESULTS:
1st) Allison Meyerink (Mitchell, SD) [+1, 74]
2nd) Olivia Braun (Aberdeen, SD) [+2, 75]
3rd) Jayce Pugh (Miller, SD) [+3, 76]
4th) Maddie Childs (Mitchell, SD) [+4, 77]
5th) Brynn Roehrich (Watertown, SD) [+7, 80]
6th) Avery Palmquist (Watertown, SD) [+8, 81]
7th) Gabi Olson (Watertown, SD) [+9, 82]
T7th) Liliana Van Der Wyst (Rapid City, SD) [+9, 82]
9th) Tori Peterson (Flandreau, SD) [+10, 83]
10th) Emma Dohrer (Aberdeen, SD) [+11, 84]
BOYS RESULTS:
1st) Jake Olson (Watertown, SD) [-3, 68]
2nd) Riley Christensen (Sioux Falls, SD) [-2, 69]
3rd) Hayden Scott (Sioux Falls, SD) [-1, 70]
T3rd) Carson Korver (Orange City, IA) [-1, 70]
5th) Mac Drake (Sioux Falls, SD) [E, 71]
T5th) Charlie Rasmussen (Spearfish, SD) [E, 71]
28th) Gavin Colson (Onida, SD) [+13, 84]