White Bear Yacht Membership in White Bear Lake, Minn.
Patrick Koenig
As a part of GOLF’s rigorous scores course of for our newly launched Prime 100 Programs within the U.S. and Prime 100 Programs You Can Play rankings, our fleet of 100-plus skilled panelists recognized the most effective golf programs in each state.
You may try the hyperlinks under to browse all of our course rankings, or scroll all the way down to see the most effective programs in Minnesota. And for those who’re seeking to create your personal journey sooner or later, you’d be smart to let GOLF’s new Course Finder instrument help you. Right here, you may toggle all of our lists — Prime 100 public, finest munis, finest quick programs, finest par-3s and extra — or filter by value to create the proper itinerary in your subsequent journey.
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The perfect golf programs in Minnesota (2024/2025)
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# = Prime 100 Course within the U.S.
Y = Prime 100 You Can Play within the U.S.
V = Prime 100 Worth Course within the U.S.
P = Public/Resort
Ed. word: Some programs had been omitted from our rankings as a result of they didn’t obtain sufficient votes.
1. Interlachen (Edina) [#]
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2. White Bear Yacht Membership (White Bear Lake) [#]
William Watson deserves the credit score for laying out the holes which are the spine of right now’s course, although the membership historian notes that Donald Ross “gave freely of his recommendation in its growth.” The 2 Scots had been certainly bewitched by the chance to work on this roly-poly panorama. The view from the first tee of the 18-foot-deep greenside bunker tells you that is going to be completely different, although nothing actually prepares you for such a one-off gap because the elegant 12h with its lengthy fallaway inexperienced. It’s nice to see a 6,500-yard course placed on a pedestal.
3. Northland (Duluth)
Located excessive above Lake Superior, this is among the extra gorgeous and shocking programs on this checklist to play. Putts that skilled golfers learn as breaking X ft truly break twice that a lot, such is the invisible pull of the lake. Donald Ross renovated the course in 1927 and in his huge portfolio of programs, this stays one among his most distinctive efforts.
4. Hazeltine Nationwide (Chaska)
5. Midland Hills (Roseville)
6. Somerset (Mendota Heights)
7. Spring Hill (Wayzata)
8. Minikahda Membership (Minneapolis)
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9. Minneapolis GC (St. Louis Park)
10. Windsong Farm (Independence)
11. City & Nation (St. Paul)
12. Rochester (Rochester)
13. Big’s Ridge — Quarry (Biwabik) [P, V]
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14. The Wilderness at Fortune Bay [P, V]
15. Olympic Hills (Eden Prairie)
How we rank our programs
For our newly launched Prime 100 U.S. and Prime 100 You Can Play lists — a course of that helped us create 50 best-in-state rankings — every panelist was supplied a poll that consisted of 609 programs. Beside the checklist of programs had been 11 “buckets,” or groupings. If our panelists thought-about a course to be among the many prime three within the U.S., they ticked that first column. In the event that they believed the course to be amongst Nos. 4-10, they checked that column, adopted by 11-25, 26-50, and so forth out to 250+ and even a column for “take away.” Panelists had been additionally free to put in writing in programs that they felt ought to have been included on the poll.
Factors had been assigned to every bucket; to reach at a mean rating for every course, we divide its mixture rating by the variety of votes. From these level tallies, the programs are then ranked accordingly. It’s an deliberately easy and easy course of. Why? As a result of it traditionally has produced outcomes which are extensively lauded. Like the sport itself, there’s no must unnecessarily complicate issues or attempt to repair one thing that already works so nicely.
The important thing to the method is the expertise and experience of our panel. Hailing from 15 nations and all of the worldwide golf meccas, every of our 127 handpicked panelists has a eager eye for structure, each regionally and globally. Lots of our panelists have performed greater than 1,000 programs in 20-plus international locations, some over 2,000. Their handicaps vary from +5 to fifteen.
As a result of the character in fact score is so intensely subjective, nobody opinion carries the day. The one approach, then, to construct significant consensus is to include this variety of panelists and experiences into one rating.
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