Recent grad is country club champ

One hundred years after the founding of the Cloquet Country Club, Karson Patten won the coveted title of club champion. The 2023 Cloquet High School graduate led the Lumberjacks to the Minnesota State High School Class AA golf tournament in mid-June, where he finished second, while the team took third place. The golf star had a hole-in-one at the club a few weeks ago and also recently qualified for the Minnesota Golf Association state tournament. Needless to say, Patten is having an awesome golf month.

The annual Cloquet Club championship pits the 16 low-handicap players in a two-day weekend playoff with a match-play format. The "final four" players were Patten, Keegan Poppenberg, Mark Heehn and Brett Morrison. Heehn was runner-up, Poppenberg third and Morrison fourth.

Other winners:

Presidents flight: Chad Demenge

Senior championship: Tom McFarlane

First flight: Mike Owens

Second flight: Joe Heck

Third flight: Ron Carlson

Arica Sheff defeated her mom, Patti, in the women's championship. It was Arica's eighth straight championship win.