Best golf courses near Lakeville, MN

The design lineage of Minnesota Valley is cloudy, but the club believes the Seth Raynor drafted plans for the course during one of his visits to Minneapolis in the early 1920s (it’s doubtful he was involved in the actual construction of the course). But the design if full of Raynor and C.B. Macdonald ideas, and no matter who gets original credit, Minnesota Valley now fully looks and plays like a Raynor course following a 2018 renovation by Bill Bergin that enhanced the character of holes like Short, Redan, Raynor’s Prize Dogleg and a Biarritz green at a par-4 rather than the usual par-3.

Architect Ron Prichard took an existing layout by Charles Maddox and completely transformed it—with a brand-new course reopening in 2015 that is one of the best in Minnesota. Tyler Rae has done some renovation work in recent years to clear out a significant number of trees to open up sightlines and tweak green complexes to make some less severe. Still, Olympic Hills features intriguing greensites built in all shapes and sizes, with a good variety of holes.

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