Seth Raynor designed the course at Midland Hills Country Club in 1920. Unfortunately, many alterations to the layout have been made down the years, including a new millennium renovation, eroding much of the original architect’s work.
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Seth Raynor designed the course at Midland Hills Country Club in 1920. Unfortunately, many alterations to the layout have been made down the years, including a new millennium renovation, eroding much of the original architect’s work.
Midland Hills Country Club
Midland Hills CC was founded by University of Minnesota professors with Seth Raynor designing the course in 1921 and was initially called University of Minnesota Golf Club.
The club voted to change the name to Midland Hills CC in 1922 as membership grew beyond university staff. Many alterations were made to the layout through the years, initially by Paul Coates, and most recently a new millennium renovation that eroded much of Raynor’s work.
Fortunately, Raynor’s original plans were discovered in the roof of the club superintendent Mike Manthey’s office. The new discovery confirmed Raynor’s work and identified that the course had changed dramatically between opening and the earliest aerial photographs from 1937.
In 2018, the club commissioned architect Jim Urbina to create a course masterplan. The discovery of the original plans allowed Pete Dye’s protégé to restore the layout to its Golden Age intent. Work was completed in 2021, 100 years after the course first opened for play.
The restoration returned the Raynor heritage by restoring and recreating some of golf’s most iconic template holes including the Road, Punchbowl, Short, Knoll, Biarritz, Alps, Redan and many others.
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