Minnesota National Golf Course (Championship)

Overview: Minnesota National’s Championship Course is the principal 18-hole routing in a 27-hole facility near McGregor, in northern Minnesota. Joel Goldstrand’s design runs through Northwoods terrain with forest edges, lakeside ground, bentgrass playing surfaces and bright Ohio white-sand bunkers. The operator describes a course stretching to about 7,200 yards with five tee positions on every hole. That range of options is important to the character of the course: the same wooded property can present a broad, strategic test from the back markers or a more manageable set of angles from forward tees.

History: The Championship Course opened in 2006 as part of the Minnesota National golf and resort development on roughly 600 lakeside acres. Goldstrand’s work sits within a larger property that also includes the nine-hole Savanna Course, so the identity of this profile is the 18-hole Championship routing rather than the shorter companion course. The layout helped establish McGregor as a northern Minnesota golf destination, combining a resort setting with a course whose separated fairways and mature vegetation make each hole seem to occupy its own pocket of the landscape.

Did You Know? Minnesota National’s 27 holes are split between the Championship course and the par-33 Savanna nine. The official course details also specify bentgrass tees, fairways and greens alongside Ohio white-sand bunkers, a combination that gives the course its recognisable contrast of dark Northwoods vegetation and pale, sharply defined hazards.