JotCast | 2024 WIAA State Girls Golf Championship: Live Updates

2024 WIAA State Girls Golf Championship: Live Updates

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Rob Hernandez

8:01

DIVISION 2

Team: Madison Edgewood returns to the winner's circle for the first time since 2019, rallying past first-round leader Spooner to win its record 16th WIAA state title. The Rails (760) finished second, four shots behind the Crusaders. Edgewood earns four competitive balance points to give it six over the last three years and will be moved to Division 1 in 2025.

Individual: Colfax/Elk Mound's Belle Kongshaug rallies past Saint Croix Central's Addison Kofal to win her second straight WIAA Division 2 state title. She will likely return to U-Ridge next year with her team as sister Clara will be an incoming freshman.

7:56

Apologies for the technical/phone issues at University Ridge. Let's see if we can summarize the crazy end to a wild and windy Tuesday at the WIAA state girls golf championship:

DIVISION 1

Team: Divine Savior Holy Angels shoots 317 and pulls away for its second straight state championship with a 637 total. The Dashers count a 76 from freshman Addy Roesch, a 77 from sophomore Zoe Gryniewicz, a 79 from junior Ava Roesch and an 85 from freshman Julia Krueger. Prescott, which won the last four state championships in Division 2 before being moved to Division 1 via the WIAA's competitive balance initiative, rallies past Middleton to earn the runner-up trophy.

Individual: McKenna Nelson of Beaver Dam wins her first title in a one-hole playoff over Brookfield East's Payton Haugen, who finishes as the runner-up for the second year in a row. Haugen's drive on No. 1 in the playoff hit what would best be described as hard-pan behind the left fairway bunker and kicked into the penalty area. She made bogey; Nelson a par.

4:25

Edgewood wins with a 755. That's the highest winning score for a D2 champion and the highest in this tournament since La Cross Central won with a number 776 in 1990 at Lake Arrowhead.

Belle Kongshaug of Colfax/Elk Mound repeats as D2 individual champion

4:22

Edgewood is up by five as the final group finishes up in D2.

4:18

A Gabbi Matzek par at 18 for Prescott gives the four-time defending D2 champion the runner-up trophy in Division 1.

4:16

Payton Haugen with a great two-putt par at 18 as my phone battery dies and she'll go to a playoff with McKenna Nelson of Beaver Dam for D1 individual honors. #WIHSGOlf

3:58

Payton Haugen just misses a birdie putt on 17. We remained tied in D1 individuals. #WIHSGolf

While I was posting that, Middleton’s Jafferis makes a slippery downhill putt for birdie & Prescott’s Matzek for par. Their teams are now tied for second. #WIHSGolf

3:38

Payton Haugen for birdie on 16. BOOM! We have a tie for the individual lead in #WIHSGolf D1 with her and McKenna Nelson.

3:21

Jaffaris of Middleton and Matzek of Prescott both par. Prescott stays two up in the race for second.

3:19

Payton Haugen stays one back with a par at 15.

2:42

A birdie at No. 12 for Payton Haugen to catch McKenna Nelson at 5-under

2:40

A bogey to finish for Beaver Dam’s McKenna Nelson, who leads by one shot as she finishes & Payton Haugen plays the back nine. Don’t touch that dial! #WIHSGolf

2:11

Edgewood has pulled even with Spooner in the D2 team race in #WIHSGolf state tournament.

2:10

McKenna Nelson has righted the ship and regained a two-shot lead as she plays the ninth hole to finish the season. #WIHSGolf

1:27

We are tied at the top in D1 individually between McKenna Nelson & Payton Haugen. #WIHSGolf

12:54

Gotta birdie the par-5s out here & Brookfield East’s Payton Haugen does that on No. 6 while McKenna Nelson makes back-to-back bogeys at 3 and 4. The D1 margin is one in the medalist chase. #WIHSGolf

12:40

There is much rejoicing in Elk Mound (and Colfax, too)! Belle Kongshaug has her first birdie of the day and has grabbed a share of the D2 individual lead. #WIHSGolf

Still enough drama in D2 so if the trophies & medals were engraved it wouldn’t be happening yet. #WIHSGolf

12:21

12:10

Bird Alert: Beaver Dam’s McKenna Nelson birdies No. 2 to get to 1-under for the day & 8-under for the week. Osceola’s Casey Danielson has the 36-hole #WIHSGolf scoring record of 138 (2010). Nelson needs to shoot 73 to tie it & 72 or better to beat it.

Meanwhile, four-time defending #WIHSGolf D2 state champion Prescott — competitively balanced up to D1 this fall — has moved within three shots of Middleton in the battle for the runner up position behind DSHA.

12:04

11:48

After a tough start, defending #WIHSGolf D2 state champ Belle Kongshaug is back within two shots of Saint Croix Central’s Addison Kofal. #WIHSGolf

11:44

Speaking of @EdgewoodHSMad … the Crusaders have made a big dent in the deficit they faced after the opening day. They are within five shots of the Spooner Rails. #WIHSGolf

What an absolute treat to run into long time @wiaawi executive director Doug Chickering in the clubhouse @URidgeGolf. The man who oversaw the combination of the WIAA & WISAA in 2000 was sporting a jacket he won at a golf outing. Yes, that is the @EdgewoodHSMad logo! #WIHSGolf

11:38

11:25

Make that three in a row for Beaver Dam’s McKenna Nelson, who just passed through the first tee making the turn. She shot even par on the front the hard way. #WIHSGolf

11:19

We heard cheering from the first green when the second to last group of leading teams went through. Zoe Gryniewicz of DSHA drove into the native grass right & appeared to hit her 2nd shot into the front bunker. She must have holed out for the 1st back-to-back birdies. #WIHSGolf

11:04

Beaver Dam’s McKenna Nelson hit the lead with Payton Haugen of Brookfield East after a double bogey on 15th hole. But she bounced back with birdies at 16th and 17th holes to get back to six under.

10:24

McKenna Nelson is 1-over thru five as Payton Haugen gets set to begin her round.

9:39

DeForest’s Abigail Henriksen has swing coach Joe Leonard out following today at #WIHSGolf state meet

9:37

Lydia Feran of @GolfPrescott receives a hole flag commemorating her hole-in-one Monday on No. 12. #WIHSGolf

8:51

Second wave of D1 teams are about to start on No. 1. On the back nine first round leader, McKenna Nelson should have just started her round off No. 10

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