Golf courses in Minnesota

Duluth, not Minneapolis or Saint Paul, has the most courses mapped in Yardage of any Minnesota city, 14, because Enger Park and Lester Park are each listed as their nines and the eighteens those nines combine into. Saint Paul shows 8, Como and Phalen Park among them, and five of the Minneapolis Park Board’s seven courses are mapped: Hiawatha, Columbia, Gross, Meadowbrook and the Fort Snelling nine.

North of the cities the resort belt takes over. The Brainerd Lakes towns have 20 mapped courses, Madden’s three, Cragun’s three, the Pines at Grand View Lodge, Breezy Point and Deacon’s Lodge among them, and Annandale’s 8 sit on the lakes an hour northwest of Minneapolis. On the Iron Range, Giants Ridge in Biwabik has two mapped courses, and the municipal nines in Eveleth, Hibbing and Hoyt Lakes are the working-town version of the same idea.

Yardage has 447 Minnesota courses mapped, 279 eighteen-hole and 168 nine-hole. The 37.6% nine-hole share ranks eighth nationally, and 185 of the state’s 270 postal cities have a single course. Per head Minnesota is tenth in the Golf Course Census at 7.67 courses per 100,000 residents, one course for every 13,043 people, and holds 2.98% of the catalog.

The season is hard-edged: roughly April to October, later up north, and nothing once the ground freezes. Nobody here needs telling. For a lakes weekend on an unfamiliar course, read our guide to playing a new golf course; the national directory covers every state.

Most courses: Duluth (14), Annandale (8), Rochester (8), Saint Paul (8), Brainerd (6).

Population: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates (July 1, 2025) (5,830,405 residents). Counts are courses mapped in Yardage, not an official registry.

Courses by city

Is your course mapped?

Type the course or the town, Rochester, St. Cloud or Bemidji, and see whether your Minnesota course is in our catalog.

Missing a course?

Give us the course and the town and we will look at mapping it; a nine on a lake up north is the kind of course we hear about most.

Missing a course, or a green that looks wrong? Email support@theyardageapp.com with the course name and city and we will map it.