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Leaning Rock is hidden atop a bluff overlooking Pine Bluffs, Wyoming. Adventurous golfers will find a good time. Rockhounds may find gems.
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The Prairie Club’s Dunes Course offers the world class golf one expects from the Nebraska Sand Hills to anyone. With it’s wide fairways, multiple options, and clever routing, the Dunes course is a must see.
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Dick Youngscap’s Firethorn paved the way for the Sand Hills Golf Club to be built a decade later. This Pete Dye design is challenging and plays through almost nature perserve-esque tranquility featuring four holes that Dye considered some of the best he built.
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In 1924, William Langford and Theodore Moreau built one of Omaha’s best courses, the 27-hole Happy Hollow Club. Natural disasters and intentional changes have significantly altered the course, but I want to document Happy as it once was.
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One of two Seth Raynor designed courses in Minnesota, Midland Hills Country Club is a delight. A recent restoration by Jim Urbina has brought much of the original style back to Roseville by emphasizing the width, options, and distinctiveness of each template hole. The club holds its own amidst all the options in the lush…
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Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota, designed by Robert Trent Jones, is renowned for hosting major championships. Its unique holes present a variety of challenges. The club promotes walking, enhancing the experience, while maintaining immaculate course conditions.
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RainDance is the longest course in North America. Downhill holes and a variety of tees mitigate that for most players and the greens offer more of a challenge than the length. With a beautiful setting and impressive practice area, RainDance outperforms expectations, even if the course isn’t commensurate with the cost.
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This feels as close to the kind of local Scottish links golf as you can get in America. It’s in the Nebraska sand hills and is maintained by community members who almost certainly don’t do it for the money. For as low as the budget must be, the greens are in good shape and the…
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I don’t know if John Barth was a golfer, but I imagine he’d like the Mad Russian. It’s got a wacky routing, odd angled fairways, good greens, and a striking sense of humor. Located in Milliken, Colorado, this former farmland was turned into one of the most original designs in golf. Think Painswick with a…
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Ballyneal is a Tom Doak course located among Eastern Colorado’s chop hills. The isolation, the use of the sand dunes, and the size of the course make it as unique and fun as anything out there.
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