The Otter Tail Central Golf team has been very busy these past couple of weeks. The OTC home meet at Thumper Pond, which was scheduled for Thursday, May 15 was re-scheduled to Thursday, May 22 due to weather conditions.  

The only other remaining regular season meet is the Conference Championships at Tipsinah Mounds, Monday, May 19. Then the golfers have section golf in Perham on Wednesday and Thursday, May 28-29 where they hope to do some damage and get some golfers and hopefully a team a shot at advancing to the state tournament.  

Tuesday, April 29 at 

Cragun’s Legacy Course

On April 29 the Bulldogs traveled to Brainerd to play the beautiful Legacy Course at Cragun’s Resort.  The boy’s team did a great job and came away with the team championship shooting a team score of 336.  

The team was led by Logan Kostelecky who finished second individually with a 74.  The other three scores that counted for the team were Teigan Bjerke with an 85 (eighth place individually), Hudson Baril 88(11th place) and Cameron Markuson with an 89 (14th place).  Other team members that day were Brayden Martinson with a 96 and Cooper Dorn with a102.  

On the girls side we had Janie Lhotak representing us and she finished in 10th place individually with a score of 104.  

Monday, May 5 at 

Tipsinah (West Central

Area’s Home Meet)

The boys team just fell short in their quest to win back to back meets as they finished second place with a 321 team score only one shot short of Underwood’s winning score of 320. Teigan Bjerke had a very good day shooting a 76 to finish third place individually. Hudson Baril just missed out on medaling as he finished in seventh place with an impressive 79. 

Other scores counting for the team score were Logan Kostelecky 81 (12th place) and Cameron Markuson 85 (19th place).  Connor Reinbold 92 and Brayden Martinson 93 rounded out the scoring for the team.  

Janie Lhotak had a good round and she just barely missed medaling as she finished in seventh place with a 92.  

Thursday, May 8 at 

Pebble Lake in 

Fergus Falls

The boys team finished in fourth place with a 344 as West Central Area won the meet with a 320. Part of the difference in the score was a crazy unfortunate break in which one of OTC’s top players had to be helped off the course after a ball from another player’s shot hit a tree and ricocheted and hit him directly in the head. Luckily there were coaches nearby and the golfer is now doing ok, but did need to sit out the rest of this meet and the next meet.  

Individually we were led by Logan Kostelecky with a third place finish with his 77.  Teigan Bjerke 84 (13th place), Brayden Martinson 87 (17th place) and both Cameron Markuson and Connor Reinbold with 96’s (34th place).

Janie Lhotak finished with a 98 to finish in 13th place in the girl’s tournament.  

Friday, May 9 at Long Prairie Country Club

The boy’s team finished in second lace with a team score of 349 finishing seven strokes behind Underwood’s 342.  Logan Kostelecky claimed the meet championship individually with a score of 78. Teigan Bjerke medaled with his sixth place finish shooting an 87. Devan Wiederich had a great debut shooting an 89 (eighth place) and OTC’s fourth score for the team score was Cameron Markuson 95 (18th Place).  Other OTC scores were Cooper Dorn 97 (19th place) and Connor Reinbold 98 (21st place)  

Janie Lhotak came home with a medal and sixth place finish with a 106. 

Monday, May 12 at 

Alexandria Golf Club

This meet was a make-up from a rain out earlier in the season although it didn’t rain this time the weather was tough with plenty of heat and a ton of wind. 

Janie Lhotak just missed out on medaling finishing in seventh place with a 107. 

On the boys side the team finished in second place once again behind Underwood as we shot 354 to their 350.  

Individually the Bulldogs were led by Logan Kostelecky and his second place finish with an 83.  Hudson Baril returned to the team and finished in ninth place with an 89.  The other two scores for the team score were Teigan Bjerke 90 (10th place) and Cameron Markuson 92 (14th place), Brayden Martinson 109 (26th place) and Devon Wiederich 120 (29th place) rounded out the scores for the day.  

Tuesday, May 13 at 

Tipsinah Mounds 

(Ashby’s Home Meet)

The boys team finished in third place with a Team Score of 331 while West Central Area won it with a 312. Another really hot day with plenty of wind.  

Individually the Bulldogs were led by Logan Kostelecky finished with a 78 for seventh place, Teigan Bjerke 82 (11th place), Cameron Markuson 85 (14th place), Cooper Dorn 86 (17th place), the other two scores were Connor Reinbold 90 (25th place) and Hudson Baril 92 (29th place)

Janie Lhotak 99 (13th place) was the only girl once again.