Woodhill Country Club

Wedged between two main highways on the western outskirts of Minneapolis, the course at Woodhill Country Club is a strong Donald Ross layout that dates back to 1917. The architect is then said to have returned to make further modifications to the course in the early 1930s. Jack Nicklaus won the Trans-Mississippi Amateur here in 1959, retaining the title he’d won a year earlier at Prairie Dunes.

In The American Private Golf Club Guide, Daniel Wexler describes the course as “a tree-lined, sometimes wooded layout with a solid reputation around the Twin Cities area. Like many a mid-range Ross design, there isn’t a lot of flash here, but there are plenty of strong holes.”

The author then cites the following as notable holes: “the 421-yard 4th , the 424-yard 6th (where left-side trees influence the approach), the 221-yard 8th and the 426-yard 11th, which plays across a narrow, sloping fairway. Not as strong, but equally memorable, is the 137-yard 2nd, a short pitch to a small push-up green.”