Season Recaps

The 2026 Edina Boys Golf season is officially underway, and this year there's a new way to follow along: edinaboysgolf.com, the official home of Edina Boys Golf.

The site has everything you need to stay close to the program all spring. The Schedule page has every varsity and JV event — dates, courses, and results as they come in. The Stats page has the team leaderboard and individual scoring averages, updated after every event. The Roster page has the full 2026 squad — 13 varsity, 12 JV — with player photos and class years. Recaps from each event (including this one) live on the Recaps page, and the program's full championship history is on History.

Scores post automatically after each event. No waiting for a group text — just open the site and the data is there.

The site works like an app when you add it to your phone's home screen. Tap the icon and it opens full-screen, no browser bar, no searching for the URL. Scores update automatically — no manual refresh needed.

To add on iPhone: open edinaboysgolf.com in Safari, tap the Share button (the square with an arrow), scroll down and tap "Add to Home Screen," then tap Add. The Edina Hornets icon will appear on your home screen.

To add on Android: open edinaboysgolf.com in Chrome, tap the three-dot menu in the top right, tap "Add to Home Screen," then tap Add.

That's it. The icon sits next to your other apps. Tap it before any match and the latest scores, schedule, and standings are right there.

Two quick asks from the program while we're here: if you have a headshot of your player, send it to photos@edinaboysgolf.com and we'll get it on the Roster page. And throughout the season — matches, practice, team dinners, anything that captures this group — photos are always welcome at the same address. The site gets better every time a new one comes in.

Three weeks. That is how long this year's tryout process ran — two weeks of practice at Office Golf and Braemar, followed by a four-round tryout at Braemar that sorted 54 hopefuls into a 25-man roster. Coach Vernon called it one of the most rewarding experiences in his 35 years in professional golf. The depth of competition backs that up.

Captain Sander Ohe posted the lowest tryout total and looks ready to carry the No. 1 spot his brother Torger held last season. Chase Larson and Max Romslo were right behind him at the top of the board.

The biggest story might be Drew Schiena, a freshman who earned a varsity spot with one of the best tryout performances in the field. Making varsity as a ninth-grader at Edina is not something that happens every year. Schiena clearly earned it.

Senior Captain David Colby, Charlie Nielsen, Michael Vernon, Peter Bennett, Hudson Strodl, Ryan Geyer, and Elan Winnick round out a deep varsity group. Ty Pankratz and Macallen Smith complete the 13-man roster.

Four players made the jump from JV to varsity: Geyer, Pankratz, Macallen Smith, and Strodl. All four were part of last year's JV squad and spent the offseason closing the gap. That kind of progression is exactly what a program wants to see.

With five seniors graduating last spring (Torger Ohe, Harry Kuretsky, Lorenzo D'Angelo, Sam LaFrenz, and Ryan Toren), the door was open, and a deep group of returners and newcomers walked through it.

Carter Ringle and Mason Schultes lead the JV group after strong tryout performances that had them right on the varsity bubble. William Smith and Cole Considine were close behind, and Henry Applebaum, George Heinen, Ari Prickett, and Randy Dann all posted competitive numbers.

The most notable additions might be at the bottom of the age range. Mason Catron and Crosby Pote are both 8th graders who made the high school roster — a rare accomplishment that speaks to the depth of young talent coming up through Edina golf. Mason Hughes is another freshman joining the program. Combined with returning players like Henry Freeman and Cole Considine, this JV squad has real depth across every class year.

This is a group with room to grow and plenty of competitive reps ahead of them. The JV schedule opens alongside varsity on April 20.

No tee times this week — just range sessions, film, and the quiet anticipation that comes with a Minnesota preseason. The 2026 Edina Boys Varsity season opens in 51 days at Chaska Town Course for Lake Conference Tournament #1, and the schedule that follows is one of the most demanding the program has seen in recent years.

The Hornets will play 18 events across the spring, including the East Ridge Invitational, The Preview (two days at Edinburgh Golf Course), the Northwest Classic at Detroit Country Club, and the Edina Invitational at Oak Ridge Country Club. The postseason destination is Meadows at Mystic Lake, where Edina finished 2nd of 13 at Sections a year ago and sent two golfers — Torger Ohe and Chase Larson — on to State at Bunker Hills.

The league calendar is full. The section bar is high. The Hornets know what it takes.

Season opens April 20. More to come.

The JV squad opens the same week at Burl Oaks GC for the Lake Conference JV Opener. Additional events at Clifton Highlands, Bluff Creek, Wild Marsh, Riverwood National, and Shamrock are on the calendar. More details as the schedule fills in.

A 283 (-5) at the Lake Conference Opener at Braemar set the tone on day one. Two days later came a first-place finish at the East Ridge Invitational ahead of 15 other programs. April went exactly as planned: five events, five wins, capped by a first at the Border Battle Final against 22 teams at St. Croix.

May brought more of the same — until it didn't. An 8th-place finish at the Sartell Invite at Blackberry Ridge on May 13, then a loss to CDH at Edina Country Club two days later. CDH went on to win the state championship — in hindsight, that result belongs in a different category. The Hornets responded by winning their next three outings.

Leading the charge all season was Torger Ohe. A 71.9 scoring average across 16 rounds, with a season-low 67, made him the clear No. 1 in the lineup from start to finish. His brother Sander wasn't far behind at 74.9 — two brothers, both near the top of the Lake Conference standings all spring. Chase Larson and Peter Bennett anchored the middle of the lineup with mid-74 averages, and both reached 69 at their best.

The postseason told the real story. Edina finished 2nd of 13 at the MSHSL 6AAA Section Tournament at Meadows at Mystic Lake — and while the team came up just short of advancing, two Hornets punched their individual tickets to state. Torger Ohe and Chase Larson both qualified for the MSHSL State Championship at Bunker Hills, competing against the best high school golfers in Minnesota. Torger shot 70-77 to finish T10th of 88. Chase carded a 78 in round one and came back with a 73 on day two to finish 30th of 88 — a closing round that said more about where his game is headed than the opening number did.

Final record: 11 wins, 3 losses. Two individuals at state. A season worth remembering.

The JV squad had a season that deserves its own headline.

The Hornets JV opened with back-to-back silver medals — 2nd of 7 at the Lake Conference JV Tournament at Bluff Creek and 2nd of 23 at East Ridge. Then things got comfortable: a first at the Rosemount JV Invite (1st of 10), and the signature result of the season — a 305 at the Eden Prairie JV Invite, good for 1st of 13. That's a number that earns attention in any field.

Macallen Smith turned in a 68 — the low round of the JV season — and Hudson Strodl put together a consistent eight-event run with a 76.4 average. Carter Ringle and Ryan Geyer were forces throughout, and by late May the JV lineup looked more like a problem than a depth chart.

Seven event wins on the year. Multiple top-two finishes at invitationals. The 2025 JV squad did everything a program needs its underclassmen to do. The varsity roster noticed.