How They're Doing: Minnesotans on Pro Tour Money Lists -- March 2

March 2, 2025 | 3 min.
By Michael R Fermoyle

Players from Minnesota or with Minnesota connections

2025 PGA TOUR

Pos. Name (Prev.) From Events Money won

36. Tom Hoge (35), Fargo 7 $972,618

80. Erik Van Rooyen (123), South Africa 6 $394,373

105. Frankie Capan (97), North Oaks 6 $231,737

181. Ben Polland (NA), Bloomington 1 $20,424
Ben Polland played high school golf for Bloomington Jefferson and college golf for Campbell University, which has a Golf Course Management Program. He is the PGA Director of Golf at Shooting Star of Jackson Hole in Teton Village, Wyoming. He is not a member of the PGA Tour; so he is not listed on the official PGA Tour Money List. If he were a member, however, he would be No. 181 on the list, based on the $20,424 that he won on Sunday in the Cognizant Classic. The 34-year-old Polland made the cut on the nuimber Friday with a 36-hole score of 137 (66-71). At that point, he was tied with Joe Highwater (65-72). Highwater proceeded to shoot a pair of 64s on the weekend and won the tournament (and $1,656,000) by two strokes with a 72-hole total of 265. In 2016, Polland won the (National) PGA Assistant Professional Championship. In 2024, he won the (National) PGA Professional (Club Pro) Championship, and also the Rocky Mountain PGA Section Championship.

Troy Merritt, Spring Lake Park 1 --

2025 KORN FERRY TOUR

84. Caleb VanArragon (69), Blaine 5 $16,110

Thomas Longbella, Chippewa Falls 2 --

2025 Champions Tour

T47. Mario Tiziani (NA), Chanhassen 1 $31,748

55. Tom Lehman (55), Alexandria 2 $25,067

92. Tim Herron (T76), Wayzata 2 $6,741

2025 LPGA TOUR

77. Kate Smith-Stroh (67), Detroit Lakes 1 $12,632

2024-25 ASHER TOUR

4. Ben Warian (3), Stillwater 7 $35,075

48. Derek Hitchner (45), Minneapolis 1 $7,500

T108. Brock Winter (T104), Stillwater 9 $3,125

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Michael R Fermoyle

Mike Fermoyle’s amateur golf career features state titles in five different decades, beginning with the State Public Links (1969), three State Amateurs (1970, 1973 and 1980), and four State Four-Ball championships (1972, 1985, 1993 and 2001). Fermoyle was medalist at the Pine to Palm in 1971, won the Resorters in 1972, made the cut at the State Amateur 18 consecutive years (1969 to 1986), the last being 2000, and amassed 13 top-ten finishes. Fermoyle also made it to the semi-final matches at the MGA’s annual match play championship, the Players’, in 1982 and 1987.

Fermoyle enjoyed a career as a sportswriter at the St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch before retiring in 2006. Two years later he began a second career covering the golf beat exclusively for the MGA and its website, mngolf.org, where he ranks individual prep golfers and teams, provides coverage on local amateur and professional tournaments and keeps tabs on how Minnesotans are faring on the various professional tours.

How They're Doing: Minnesotans on Pro Tour Money Lists -- March 2

Michael R Fermoyle

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