Hazeltine National Golf Club

Hazeltine National Golf Club

1900 Hazeltine Blvd

Chaska, MN 55318-1020

United States

Overview

Hazeltine might be the most controversial championship course of the modern era, designed by Robert Trent Jones for former USGA president Totton 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. Between 1987 and 2010 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. Davis Love III, longtime Ryder Cup player and victorious U.S. captain in 2016, will step in for Rees and make modifications to the course in preparation with his brother Mark and their lead architect, Scot Sherman.

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.
Previous ranking: 138th.
2025-'26 ranking: T-137.

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 to current. Ranked inside the top 5 since 1977.
2025-'26 ranking (and previous): 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
7.4907
Character
7.4128
Challenge
7.776
Layout Variety
7.2908
Fun
7.1728
Aesthetics
7.2734
Conditioning
7.6353

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