Category: History
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Lost Rail Golf Club
Lost Rail is masterfully routed on a severe 150 acre site and features an exceptional variety of holes and challenges. It ties into is prairie and wooded sections perfectly with verticality that separates each hole from the others. It’s a marvel of a golf course.
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Leaning Rock Golf Course
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 (Dunes Course)
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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Firethorn Golf Club
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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Lost Langford: The Happy Hollow Club
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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Midland Hills Country Club
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…
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Hazeltine National Golf Club
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 National Golf Course
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…
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Augusta Wind Golf Course
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…
Layman's Hall 