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 professional panelists recognized one of the best golf programs in each state.
You possibly can take a look at the hyperlinks beneath to browse all of our course rankings, or scroll right down to see one of the best programs in Minnesota. And when you’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’ll be able to 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 right itinerary on your subsequent journey.
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One of the best 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. observe: Some programs have 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 might be the spine of in the present day’s course, although the membership historian notes that Donald Ross “gave freely of his recommendation in its improvement.” The 2 Scots have been absolutely 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 without doubt one of the extra gorgeous and shocking programs on this record to play. Putts that skilled golfers learn as breaking X toes 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 certainly one of 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 record of programs have been 11 “buckets,” or groupings. If our panelists thought-about a course to be among the many high 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 have been additionally free to jot down in programs that they felt ought to have been included on the poll.
Factors have been assigned to every bucket; to reach at a mean rating for every course, we divide its combination rating by the variety of votes. From these level tallies, the programs are then ranked accordingly. It’s an deliberately easy and simple course of. Why? As a result of it traditionally has produced outcomes which might be 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 manner, then, to construct significant consensus is to include this range of panelists and experiences into one rating.
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