GOLF’s latest Prime 100 Programs within the U.S. rating contains 11 newcomers, which we’ll introduce you to right here. Meet Interlachen in Minnesota.
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GOLF just lately launched its newest rating of the Prime 100 Programs within the U.S. (2024-25), a listing that features 11 newcomers. A few of them you may know. Others you may not. Right here, in our newcomer spotlights, we’ll introduce you to those rookie Prime 100 gems.
Newcomer highlight: Interlachen / Rank: 73rd
Location: Edina, Minn.
Sort: Non-public
Yr: 1911/1919/2024
Architect: William Watson/Donald Ross/Andrew Inexperienced
What it’s good to find out about Interlachen
Andrew Inexperienced has mastered the playbook for restoring Golden Age parkland gems, and he did so once more right here exterior Minneapolis the place Bob Jones received one leg of the Grand Slam. Among the many enhancements: removing of poorly positioned bushes; restoration of fairway width; and increasing Donald Ross’s greens to their fill pads. Inexperienced additionally reintroduced Ross’s bunkering schemes, and lots of the greens at the moment are surrounded by brief grass. Ross’s routing throughout ridge traces creates memorable and distinctive holes such because the par-3 fifth, par-4 sixth, par-4 tenth, par-5 twelfth and par-4 thirteenth. The occasional water hazard provides to the range of obstacles that golfers should overcome. A well-played spherical right here is deeply gratifying because the course poses each conceivable query of its challengers.
What our raters say
“Very good restoration. Outstanding property the place the pure options have been rediscovered.”
“Andrew Inexperienced’s restoration expertise is to reclaim and develop into the corners of inexperienced complexes whereas introducing refined inside contouring into the middle sections of the inexperienced — major examples discovered at Interlachen on the third and sixth greens. The 2nd gap stays among the finest uphill par-4 holes within the nation. Inexperienced’s championship design pedigree brings anticipation of the upcoming 2030 U.S. Ladies’s Open with Interlachen’s complicated historical past of the Donald Ross and William Watson design intermixed with the USGA championship historical past of Bobby Jones, Inbee Park and Annika Sorenstam.”
“Andrew Inexperienced has made it very clear how nice the land on which Interlachen resides.”
