Minneapolis Golf Club

Minneapolis Golf Club has operated on a piece of St. Louis Park, Minnesota Twin Cities suburban land since 1898 — making it one of the oldest country clubs in the Upper Midwest and contemporaneous with the founding-era clubs of the Northeast. The original routing has been redesigned multiple times since the late-1800s opening, with significant work through the early-1900s by Tom Bendelow and subsequent updates through the decades. The modern course reflects the multi-era design history with continuing agronomic-and-architectural restoration work.

The course plays around 6,700 yards par 71 from the back markers, with bent fairways and a slope in the upper 130s. The yardage is short by modern championship standards, but the routing's age and the natural Minnesota glacial-deposit terrain give the course defense that the back-tee yardage doesn't convey. The fairways play firm given the Minnesota subsoil. The mature tree canopy through the property has grown to championship-narrowing dimensions over the club's century-plus history. The fifteenth hole is a 442-yard par-4 with a tee shot played over a natural creek; the seventeenth, a 195-yard par-3 across a natural depression, is the routing's most-discussed one-shotter.

Minneapolis Golf Club is private and access is members and accompanied guests only. The membership is regional Twin Cities business and professional families with multi-generation ties through the club's late-1800s founding. The institutional history through Minnesota's first century of organized golf is part of the club's identity.

Minnesota Twin Cities climate compresses Minneapolis Golf Club's playing season into April through October. The course closes through Minnesota winter and reopens when the soil thaws — typically late April. The mature tree canopy through the property gives the routing a parkland character that has been preserved through generations of restoration work.