The Pines at Grand View Lodge (Lakes/Woods)

Overview: The Lakes and Woods combination at The Pines at Grand View Lodge is an 18-hole, par-72 resort routing in Nisswa, Minnesota. The directory lists 6,479 yards, and the two nines are part of a 27-hole complex that also includes the Marsh nine. Joel Goldstrand's layout moves through Northwoods forest, lake-country ground and changing fairway corridors, with the Lakes and Woods combination offering a varied rhythm of wooded holes, open landing areas and green approaches shaped by the surrounding terrain. This profile is limited to the Lakes/Woods pairing rather than treating all 27 holes as one scorecard.

History: The Pines opened in 1990 as Grand View Lodge's first championship course and originally consisted of the Lakes and Woods nines. The Marsh nine was added later, completing the 27-hole facility. Current Grand View Lodge material continues to describe the three nines separately, while Golf Digest and Top100 Golf Courses identify the Lakes/Woods pair as the original 18-hole combination designed by Joel Goldstrand. The course therefore has two useful historical layers: the 1990 opening of the original 18, followed by the expansion that made The Pines a three-nine complex.

Did You Know? The Pines' 27 holes can produce three different 18-hole combinations, but Lakes/Woods is the historic original pairing. That means the ranking label is not simply a shortened name for the whole facility: it identifies a particular sequence of two nines with its own 6,479-yard, par-72 scorecard.