Perham golfers Glorvigen, Reuter advance to section tournament

Brooklyn Glorvigen and Elise Reuter kept Perham’s postseason golf run alive at Thumper Pond Golf Course, where the Yellowjackets placed sixth with a team score of 410 and both golfers advanced out of the 8-2A Subsection meet.

That result sent Perham on to the next round at Bemidji Town & Country Club, where the Class AA Section 8AA tournament was held June 1 and 2. For a program in a small county school setting, getting two individual qualifiers through subsections mattered more than the team finish, because it guaranteed Perham another week in the tournament bracket.

Glorvigen turned that opening into a bigger breakthrough. She shot a 26-over-par 170 at sections, finished 10th, and earned her first state appearance. Reuter also stayed in the field through the section meet, carding a 47-over-par 197 to finish 29th. Glorvigen’s advance gave Perham its first golfer at the state tournament since Addicyn Zimmerman in 2023.

The state Class AA tournament was scheduled for June 9 at The Ridges on Sand Creek, giving Glorvigen a chance to extend the run even farther and keep Perham in the county’s late-spring postseason picture. For Otter Tail County, it was another reminder that the area’s spring sports calendar was still producing qualifiers after the baseball season had already begun to stack up results elsewhere in the county.

Perham’s girls golf program is listed by the Minnesota State High School League in Class AA, Section 8AA, with a Region 6A designation and an enrollment of 473. Those numbers help frame the challenge: Perham is competing in a section where only a handful of golfers move on, and every stroke at Thumper Pond and Bemidji carried real weight. Glorvigen’s finish at sections showed she could hold her own against stronger regional competition, while Reuter’s qualification through subsections confirmed that Perham had more than one golfer capable of getting through the first postseason gate.