ALEXANDRIA — Donnacha O’Connor has made a big impact at the Alexandria Golf Club.

O’Connor is the course superintendent, a role he has held since 2001, after moving from Wayzata.

The golf season has many highlights for O’Connor, including the yearly Resorters Tournament, but that’s just the culmination of months of hard work.

“The Resorters is the highlight of the season, but it all starts when the snow melts at the end of the winter,” O’Connor said. “You see what hand you’re dealt, and then adjust. Another big part of this is the end of the golf season and preparing for winter. You see the golf course, you touch it, you're on it every day for about seven months. Then November comes and you put it to bed for five months and don’t see it again until maybe late March.”

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