SIOUX FALLS — For the third time in five years, Watertown's Jake Olson is one of the South Dakota Golf Association's Golfers of the Year.

The SDGA Board of Directors have announced the 2005 Golfers of the Year and Olson, now a sophomore golfer at South Dakota State University, is the Male Golfer of the Year.

The SDGA Board of Directors is pleased to announce the 2025 Golfers-of-the-Year.

Olson completed the rare Major double in 2025 winning both the SDGA Men’s Amateur Championship and SDGA Men’s Match Play Championship. He also finished seventh in the SDGA Two-Man Championship.

Olson earned SDGA Junior Male Golfer of the Year honors in 2021 and 2022.

Steve Beardsley, another Watertown native, has been named the SDGA's Senior Male Golfer of the Year. He won the SDGA Men’s Senior Ch

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