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    Hazeltine National Golf Club

    Chaska, MN Private

    Overview

    Hazeltine might be the most controversial championship course of the modern era, designed by Robert Trent Jones for former USGA president Totten Heffelfinger, who used his considerable clout to bring the 1966 U.S. Women’s Open and 1970 U.S. Open to the then-very immature layout. Criticisms were so extreme that Trent Jones spent the next two decades remodeling it, straightening doglegs, relocating holes and rebuilding greens. In the past two decades his younger son, Rees Jones, assumed the reconstruction, with even greater success—and today the layout, like many in the old man's portfolio, is more Rees than Trent. Hazeltine hosted the 2009 PGA and 2016 Ryder Cup, the latter a bright spot for the American team, which perhaps is why the PGA of America has already awarded the 2028 Ryder Cup to this Minnesota site.

    About

    Holes 18
    Length 7674
    Slope 152
    Facility Type Private
    Designer Robert Trent Jones, ASGCA/(R) Rees Jones, ASGCA

    Awards

    100 Greatest the Second 100
    Best Courses in Every State

    Ranking history:

    Second 100 Greatest: Ranked since 2017.
    2023-'24 ranking: 138th.
    Previous ranking: 126th.

    100 Greatest: Ranked for 48 years from 1966-2016.
    Highest ranking: No. 50, 1995-'96.

    Best in State: Ranked first, 1991-'95. Ranked third, 2011-'24. Ranked inside the top 5 since 1977.
    2023-'24 ranking: 3rd.

    Golf Digest Logo Panelists

    Ratings from our panel of 1,900 course-ranking panelists

    4.2

    100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

    Shot Options
    7.4611
    Character
    7.4718
    Challenge
    7.7957
    Layout Variety
    7.2953
    Fun
    7.283
    Aesthetics
    7.2744
    Conditioning
    7.6084

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