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8 local golfers who can pay attention to the amateur championship of men in Minnesota State – Post Bulletin

8 local golfers who can pay attention to the amateur championship of men in Minnesota State – Post Bulletin

Braink, Minn. -The most prestigious amateur golf championship of the state, the 122nd men -amateur championship in Minnesota, is to be played from Monday to Wednesday in the classic at Maddens at Gull Lake in Brainerd.

The winner of the championship receives an automatic liberation for the country's top amateur event, the US amateur championship 2025 planned in the famous Olympic Club in San Francisco in San Francisco.

Tanner Angelstad (Nerstrand): A graduate of the Kenyon-Wanamingo High School 2021, Angelstad, was the 1-1A medalist section as a senior for the knights. He completed his college career at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in early May. He ended his career as a college career by becoming fourth at the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Championships and led his team to fourth place. The grandfather of Angelstad, Bob Finseth, became a second -placed in State Amatuer in 1964 when he pushed Bob Barbarossa to 37 holes in the final. Angelstad Tees from Monday at 9:10 a.m.

Isaac Ahn (Rochester): The youngest graduate of the Mayo High School and the Harvard commit has followed an enormous season of the senior citizens -High school with a great summer. He was Section 1 of Class 3a in May and took seventh place at the class 3a state meeting. Ahn achieved a draw for the 22nd place at the prestigious Minnesota State Open last week in his home course, the Rochester Golf & Country Club. Two weeks earlier, Ahnungen 18 Birdies and only two Bogeys over 36 holes made the PGA championship in Minnesota Jr. He shot in a row of 64 to blow the field away and win with 10 blows.

Jag Foster (Pine Island): Foster, who will be a senior on Pine Island this autumn, has already played uni-golf for the Pine Island/Zumbrota-Mazeppa cooperative for five years and was a key member of the 2021 Wildcats team, which brought in the first state tournament of the program for the first time in the program. Foster achieved an average of 80.8 points for Pizm this spring and took the 21st place in the demanding section 1, class 2a. In the first round on Monday at 8 a.m. with Winona State Golfer Tyler Gandrud (Anoka) and Detroit Lakes' Tyson Eckhoff (Detroit Country Club), he is to complete.

Micah Harber (Rochester): Harber, a graduate of Rochester Mayo, played college golf at Wartburg College in Wavery, Iowa for five years, and ended the 2022-23 season. He had seven top 10 places in his college career and achieved a career average of 80.12. Harber, who plays outside of the Eastwood Golf Course, should cut off in the last group in front of hole No. 10 T -shirt in the first round on Monday at 2:30 p.m.

Elton Mosman (Rochester): Mosman, a long -time MAYO Clinic employee, plays from the Rochester Golf & Country Club. He is a former Rochester All-City Champion and former multi-time champion of the Eastwood Golf Course Club. On Monday at 2:30 p.m. on hole No. 10, he will throw out in a threesome with another Rochester -Golfer, Mayo High -graduate and former Wartburg -Golfer Micah Harber and Jacob Herdine, a former golfer from the North Dakota State University, who plays from the Fox Hollow Golf Club in St. Michael.

Josiah Nelson (Rochester): Nelson, born Rochester and graduate of the Schaeffer Academy, plays from the Eastwood Golf Course. Nelson played his way to the state amateur this week through a local qualification game. Nelson will wait a little longer than the rest of the field; In the last group of the day on Monday at 2:30 p.m. with Topher Baron (Bunker Hills Golf Club, Coon Rapids) and Tommy Smith (Riverwood National Golf Course, Monticello).

Colton Rich (Rochester): The youngest graduate of the Lourdes High School will become Henderson State University of Division II in Arkadelphia, Ark in autumn. He ended his high school career by playing in his fourth state meeting in class 2a in a row, where he took the 22nd place. Rich won the individual championship of Section 1-2a twice in his high school career (2022, '23). Rich, who had an enormous value of 74.07 points in the spring, will be thrown in round 1 at 12:40 p.m. on Monday.

Brennan Weckwerth (Rochester): The Rochester Century High School Stark School will be a senior this autumn. He had an excellent junior season for the Panthers, scored an average of 74.32 points, took fourth place in the championships in class 1, grade 3a and made a trip to class 3a, where he took 27th place. Weckwerth played 19 rounds in the high school season and shot 78 or better in all, with a season of 69.

Brennan Weckwerth from Century coups on the first hole in the Rochester Golf & Country Club during the All City Golf invited on Monday, May 12, 2025, in Rochester.

Joe Ahlquist / Post Bulletin File Photo

Jason Feldman

Jason Feldman is the sports editor of The Post Bulletin. In addition to the administration of the four-member athlete at PB, Jason also covers high school football, golf and high school and junior hockey. Jason can reach Jason at 507-281-7430 or jfeldman@postbulletin.com.