TPC Twin Cities

Arnold Palmer designed TPC Twin Cities in 2000 on a piece of Blaine, Minnesota suburban land north of Minneapolis, with collaboration from son-in-law Erik Larsen of Palmer Course Design. The course operated as a regional private club for most of its first two decades before the PGA Tour added the 3M Open to the schedule in 2019, giving TPC Twin Cities its first Tour-rotation role. The host relationship since 2019 has been the primary national exposure for the routing, and Minnesota's brief summer window — the tournament plays in late July — gives the broadcast a unique Northern setting.

The course plays around 7,431 yards par 71 from the championship markers, with bent fairways and a slope in the upper 130s. Palmer routed the eighteen holes through natural prairie-and-wetland terrain with several holes playing along natural water features. The fourteenth hole is a 581-yard par-5 with a creek crossing in front of the green; the eighteenth, a 477-yard par-4 with a green set behind a natural pond, has decided multiple 3M Open editions. Tour scoring averages run typical for the modern Tour rotation — winning totals in the high teens under par — because the bent-grass agronomy through the Minnesota summer produces fast greens and the open routing gives modern equipment room to play.

TPC Twin Cities operates as a private club with PGA Tour-affiliated public-access through the TPC network. The 3M Open week (late July) keeps the course in continuous tournament-readiness. The membership is regional Twin Cities business and professional families with a focus on club golf rather than destination-resort play.

Minnesota climate compresses TPC Twin Cities' playing season into April through October, with the firmest conditions in late July and August — the 3M Open window. The course closes through Minnesota winter and reopens when the soil thaws. The tree-and-prairie terrain through the property gives the routing a distinct Upper Midwest character.