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December 23, 2024
ROCHESTER -- Van Holmgren, the youngest of the three brothers who play for the Wayzata High School team, is in first place after the opening round of the Minnesota State Junior Boys Championship.
Holmgren, who will be an eighth-grader in a few weeks, made two birdies and two bogeys as he shot an even-par 70 at Rochester Golf & Country Club. That has him one stroke ahead of Karter Smith, who capped off his junior year at Detroit Lakes by tying for second in the Class AA part of the state high school tournament.
(Like brother, like sister -- Smith's younger sister Kate is tied for second after the first round of the State Junior Girls Championship at Oak Marsh GC in Oakdale.)
Two seniors-to-be -- Jacques Wilson of Minnetonka and Jack Pexa of New Prague -- are tied for third, at 72, with one round remaining.
MINNESOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION
State Junior Boys Championship
At Rochester Golf & Country Club
Par 70, 6,468 yards
First-round results
1. Van Holmgren, Wayzata 70
2. Karter Smith, Detroit Lakes 71
T3. Jacques Wilson, Minnetonka 72
T3. Jack Pexa, New Prague 72
T5. Peter Jones, Owatonna 73
T5. Collin Seal, Chanhassen 73
T5. Max Schwartzman, Breck 73
T5. Dominic Kieffer, Byron 73
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