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This year, the MPGA will release a book
" A Century of Public Golf Champions:
The 100th Anniversary of the Minnesota Public
Golf Association. " In this excerpt from chapter 2, meet
Johnny Lakotas-a 1930s golfer with a big personality.
J
N
ohnny Lakotas was one of the greatest characters in
Minnesota golf history, and-at least for a five-year
period-one of the best players. And if you didn't believe
that, you could just ask him.
The Columbia Heights hog farmer first surfaced as
a State Public Links contender in 1930 and 1931, losing
a quarterfinal match both years. Ade Fordham and Joe Coria
were the big names in public golf at that time, Fordham winning
three straight State Public Links from 1930-1932, and Coria taking
the crown in 1933 and 1934. Then Lakotas took over.
He was an underdog in every match he played in the 1935
State Public Links at Superior Golf Course (now Brookview),
playing with borrowed clubs, shoes and socks. He used his own
beat-up niblick and his own putter, which he bought for a quarter
and dubbed " Old Stick
in the Mud. " He had a
remarkable 16 one-putt
greens in his win against
Coria; in the final against
Fordham, he had a par
putt on the seventeenth
hole to win the title.
" Come on, putter, get
hot! " he yelled as he lined
up the putt.
Minneapolis Tribune
reporter Louis Greene
wrote: " Without a second's
hesitation, he
stroked the ball with that
patched up old putter of
his that needs lots of tape
dressing to keep it from
falling
apart. And
went in. "
» Ade Fordham (left) won
three straight State Public
Links from 1930-1932.
» Joe Coria (right) took
the crown from Fordham
in 1933 and 1934.
it
" Hurray! " Lakotas yelled,leaping into the air.
Sensing a bit of disbelief about his win on the part of some of
the 1,000 spectators who watched the match, Lakotas launched
into an epic monologue.
" I don't see how they can say I won on a fluke, " he began.
" Didn't I beat two champions in two days-Coria and Fordham?
And look who I beat the first two days of match play. I shot a
76 to eliminate Pete Ulmaniec of Columbia Heights, 3 and 2,
on 18 holes in the first round, and if you think Pete isn't tough,
you're crazy. He could beat nearly all the guys in this tournament
except me. It's just his hard luck that he caught me first.
And who did I beat in the second round? Nobody tough, just
Bert Bergman of Keller, one of the best of them all. Ask anybody
if you don't believe me. I carded a par 73 in beating him,
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