The Olivia Cordes moved from the 18th Green at the Northern Hills Golf Course on 29 May, which has earned the third visit to Class 2A Girls Golf State Meet.
But, satisfied? No, Pine Islands/Zumbrota-Mayappa Senior are satisfied.
Pizam Girls Golf Head Coach and Olivia’s mother, Kara Cordes said, “She has a very competitive spirit, no matter what she is doing,” Kara Cordes said, Pizam Girls Golf Head Coach and mother of Olivia. “Whether it is golf, we are playing cards at home or something, she likes to win.”
While Olivia Cordes are well aware of the hard competition, which surrounds him in the meeting of Hiawatha Valley League, Section 1-2A and now Class 2A, often its most difficult competition is history.
Every time she takes it to the course, the cordes wants to be better than her last time.
His 83-84–167 clan, and outstanding stood fourth, the meat left him smiling-and made his high school career longer-but he wanted him more. His final round 84 in Northern Hills marked the first time in his five -year Versity Career that his final round score was more than his first round score in section meat.
“I think the drive and that grit also helped him be really successful in the course where she doesn’t just want to give up,” said Kara Cordes. “She simply keeps moving. And she is, there are lots of holes to keep moving 18 holes, and it takes a long time to play.
“Sometimes it takes five hours for girls, sometimes it takes six hours, and it is a long time to be mentally focused and competitive.”
Once she meets in her third and final high school state at 8:02 am on Tuesday morning, the lines in Sand Creek, Jordan, will strengthen the competitive juice of Olivia Cordes. But as he has pointed out that success in his high school career – and his excitement to go to school and play golf at Bethel University began in the fall – he was able to see the opportunity of this week that is in a different light this week.
“Of course, I want to go there and play well and score well,” he said, “but mentally you just have to stay at a place to rest and have fun. A tournament is not required to emphasize – you can’t go more than the state, you are already there – so once you reach there, you are set.
“I just want to be able to play and enjoy the last bits of high school golf.”
The Olivia Cordes of Pine Island/Zumbrota-Mayppa at the Pine Island Golf Course in Pine Island reacted after putting a girls and boys on Wednesday, May 10, 2023 during golf inviteesal.
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When he was in school, Jim Reiman did not play competitive golf. He later picked up the game in life, but it did not take him a long time to see the value in the game – the value that goes far beyond the golf course.
Reiman’s own daughter, Kara, was in the course at an early age. Kara Canon Falls went to Golf for High School and at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa.
Now, Reiman spent his time on the syllabus with his grandson (Kara and her husband Brent’s children), Olivia and eighth-grader Owen, both of them play for the two concerned Pine Islands/Zumbrota-Maappa High School Varity Teams.
“He learned how to play later in his life and loved the game so much that he wanted to include us as children,” said Kara Cordes. “I probably started when I was 10 years old with him. … and again when I did it to do bugs or itching, he, we, we were out of there, all the time in the golf course. We just lived there.
“And now my children live there with him. He has retired and spends him all the time.”
Olivia said that she will no longer be where she is now-three-time state qualifiers, named 2025 Minnesota Miss Golf Watch List, and 2025 Hiawatha Valley League individual champions and last week named a Class 2A All-State Player, which was her average ranking between the top 20 in the state.
Olivia said, “My Grandpa has been a very big role model. We had a baby golf club since the age of five or six and we were hitting the course,” and I think it just kept growing from it.
“I only became serious about it in the seventh grade … once I took time and invested in practice, the stroke became really shaved and the score became better and better.”
Cordes lost its seventh grade season to Kovid epidemic, but she made 2022 grade Alexis Not, 2024 Grade Ana Silkovsky and current teammate Neva Anderson, as an eighth-gradder, as an eighth-gradder, as an eighth-gradder, as an eighth-gradder, which stepped into an important role in an important role in an important role as an eighth-gradder, as an eighth-grader is capable.
“We have a lot of capacity,” the Cordes said. “I am the only senior who is going to be a graduation, so there are five juniors below us who knows some good scores and can do it. It’s just time and effort and practice that is going to reach them there, but I know it is definitely notable.”
After another shot in the state – where the Cordes ranked 37th and 27th in a year ago – he at Bethel University at St. Paul not only to play golf, but also to attend a program, which he said that he feels like a home away from home.
Cordes said, “I think the biggest thing that I had to choose to go there was a kind of community feeling and the fact that it is believed that it is actually something great in my life,” said Cordes, “said the cordes, which was the best regular regular-showing average in South-Eastern Minnesota in this spring, 80.29. “I think it is something that encourages his relationship with God in a strong environment that is something that is definitely going to help me through my career.
“And then once I met the golf team and I have the community that I really met in the stone that I want to go there.”
As a last time in the state, the coach coach feels that his mentality is in the right place.
“He is very solid with his mental game,” Kara Cordes said, “and this game can really test it. It’s one thing that I have seen him better and better in every year, let those some bad shots have to go and just come back, come back, a bad shot after a bad hole, a bad shot, and not let him down.”
Olivia Cordes of Pine Island/Zumbrota-Mezeppa played the first hole in Northern Hills Golf Course during Section 1, Class 2A Golf Meat Thursday, Class 2A Golf Meat Thursday, Class 2A Golf Meat in Rochester.
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