BROOKINGS - Between COVID’s meddling tentacles and an injury that threatened to steal the game away from him, Jonah Dohrer’s golf career at South Dakota State has been anything but linear. Or smooth. Or predictable.
But it has made him better.
Dohrer, an Aberdeen native and former Aberdeen Central standout, earned Second Team All-Summit League honors this spring after posting a season scoring average of 73.6 strokes. Dohrer was the lone Jackrabbit named to the all-conference teams.
“It was pretty awesome,” Dohrer said of the honor. “I play golf because I love it, but to get that recognition was pretty awesome.”
The honor was all the more sweet because of the mountainous path his collegiate career traversed.
COVID stole the 2020 season from Dohrer – and the rest of the country, for that matter – but he tried to stay positive through it. Then, just as things started to turn a corner, injury befell him. Hard.
Dohrer tore his Achilles tendon during a
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