{"id":91668,"date":"2025-08-18T11:01:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/91668\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T11:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:01:18","slug":"dustin-fanfulik-wins-three-way-playoff-hole-to-claim-all-city-championship-grand-forks-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/91668\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustin Fanfulik wins three-way playoff hole to claim All City Championship &#8211; Grand Forks Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND FORKS \u2014 Steady was the main description for Dustin Fanfulik this weekend at the Greater Grand Forks All City Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old East Grand Forks graduate shot two rounds of 71, then beat two other golfers in a one-hole playoff to secure the championship at King&#8217;s Walk on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Fanfulik, a 2008 Green Wave graduate, finished with a two-day total of 142, which tied both Ryan Ames and Josh Bergrud.<\/p>\n<p>Bergrud, the All City Championship defending champion, entered the day with a three-shot lead on Fanfulik and a five-shot lead on Ames.<\/p>\n<p>Ames was the only sub-70 round on Sunday, firing a 69 to force the three-way tie.<\/p>\n<p>The playoff hole came on No. 1, where Fanfulik bested the two others to claim his first All City Championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was pretty steady most of the day,&#8221; Fanfulik said. &#8220;Josh made a few birdies late to tie it up. We knew we needed birdie on 18 to advance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fanfulik hit a 4-foot birdie to force the playoff. The course saw drizzle and wind for parts of the round but was calm for the last few holes.<\/p>\n<p>Fanfulik, who mostly plays at Valley Golf Course but is plenty familiar over the years with King&#8217;s Walk, hit his drive on the playoff hole up the right side into rough but had a good angle to the pin. He then hit a wedge to within a make-able putt.<\/p>\n<p>Fanfulik said the weekend was mostly an extension of recent play.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been pretty steady all summer,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It hasn&#8217;t been great but I&#8217;ve been making a lot of pars and limiting big numbers has been the key.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fanfulik said a windy course played into his strengths.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Going into today, I knew it was going to be an uphill battle,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The wind leveled the playing field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"081825 AllCityGolf2.jpg\"  width=\"840\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.forumcomm.com\/dims4\/default\/2a7bd34\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2553x1702+0+0\/resize\/840x560!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforum-communications-production-web.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F2f%2F50%2F13f7a0c34fa699433cb1488763ee%2F081825-allcitygolf2.jpg\" data-lazy-load=\"true\" bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSI1NjBweCIgd2lkdGg9Ijg0MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Josh Bergrud hits out of the sand on #12 at King&#8217;s Walk Sunday during the Greater Grand Forks All-City Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Hylden\/Grand Forks Herald<\/p>\n<p>The playoff trio finished three shots ahead of two golfers tied for fourth: Brody Johnson and Matt Eggl. Johnson and Eggl shot 145.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Norby and Colytn Sanderson tied for sixth at 146, followed by Grand Forks Red River&#8217;s Kolby Koerner at 148.<\/p>\n<p>The men&#8217;s Senior Championship went to Brad Segall, who shot 149 to edge Larry Sloan at 150.<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s title went to Liz Olson in a runaway finish. Olson shot 71 and 72 to finish at 143. Morgan Hetletved was 10 shots back at 153 and Amanda Voigt was 14 shots back at 157.<\/p>\n<p>The men&#8217;s first flight champion was Nate Moen at 149, while Evan Pederson was the second flight champion at 159.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandforksherald.com\/tom-miller\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Tom Miller\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.forumcomm.com\/dims4\/default\/208ba85\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1500x1500+0+0\/resize\/100x100!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffcc-cue-exports-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fgrandforksherald%2Fbinary%2F011420.s.gfh.Miller_binary_4862771.jpg\" data-lazy-load=\"true\" bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDBweCIgd2lkdGg9IjEwMHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Miller has covered sports at the Grand Forks Herald since 2004 and was the state sportswriter of the year in 2019 (NSMA, NDAPSSA), 2022 (NSMA, NDAPSSA) and 2024 (NDAPSSA). <\/p>\n<p>His primary beat is UND football but also reports on a variety of UND sports and local preps. <\/p>\n<p>He can be reached at (701) 780-1121, tmiller@gfherald.com or on Twitter at @tommillergf.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GRAND FORKS \u2014 Steady was the main description for Dustin Fanfulik this weekend at the Greater Grand Forks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-91668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}