A new look on an old image

By Eric Morken

Alexandria Echo Press

Most people who have been to the Alexandria Golf Club have seen a particular photo that is sure to elicit a smile.

It’s a black and white from way back in the early years of AGC. Pinning down the exact date the image was taken and the names of the people in it proved difficult this week, but it features three men kneeling over another man on the ground with a golf ball resting

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Heinen has proven over the years at this tournament that she does not give many matches away, and that wasn’t going to happen on Thursday. She won holes 12, 13 and 14 by going par, bogey, par to secure her spot in the semifinals.

Eldred def. Boraas, 5-4 Osakis native Alayna Eldred matched up with Heinen in the division championship last summer, and these two will square off again after Eldred beat Alexandria’s Hannah Boraas 5-4 Thursday.

It was a flurry on the back nine that did it for Eldred. She was 1-up at the turn, but she shot 2-under through the first five holes on the back. A birdie on 11 jumpstarted a string of four straight wins that was highlighted with a birdie on the par-5 14th to end it.

Boraas, last year’s Junior 13-15 Division champion who was in her first year in the Women’s Division, got her two wins on the day at 2 and 8. Both of those came with pars.

Above him is a man with a club addressing the ball.

The phrase, “Play it as it lies” comes to mind. The photo is prominently hung at eye level in the men’s bathroom at AGC, making it difficult to miss.

This past Saturday after a shotgun start during the Resorters Pro-Am, some of the most recognizable faces currently seen around the Alexandria Golf Club re-enacted the photo.

Tony Loosbrock spearheaded the idea and took the new photo facing north down the fairway on the first hole. It features Alexandria’s own and PGA Tour veteran Tom Lehman addressing the ball on Patrick Sieve’s forehead, while head pro Kyle Lee, course superintendent Donnacha O’Connor and current AGC president Jerry Rose kneeling over him with smiles on their faces.

Alexandria’s Cora Larson lines up her putt on the 14th green in the Women’s Division on Aug. 5, 2021. Larson rallied from a 4-hole deficit on the back nine to force a playoff against Madison Herzog of Detroit Lakes before Herzog ultimately won in 19 holes to secure her spot in the semifinals.