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Location: 15 miles north of Minneapolis/St. Paul. 2 Å miles west of Highway 35W (exit 32) in the City of Blaine, MN.

Acreage: Total Site 543 acres Golf Course 234 acres

Architect: Arnold Palmer Player Consultant: Tom Lehman

Tournament: PGA SR TOURs 3M Championship

Key Design Features:

• Good mixture of open space and tree-lined areas.
• Substantial water features 27 bodies of water equaling 61 acres of lakes, ponds and canals.
• 400 additional mature trees planted at strategic locations on course proper all of 20 ft.-35 ft. stature.
• 5 million cubic yards of material moved.
• Front nine Frequent residential frontage with significant set backs most buffered by substantial lakes, ponds and canals, links character.
• Back nine Minimal residential frontage, creating old-style, core golf feel. Superior stadium design. Dramatic water features.
• Designed with tournament requirements in mind; spectator viewing & traffic flow, corporate hospitality, television staging, etc.

Practice Facility:

• 450 yards long X 150 yards wide. double-ended, double- tiered with12,000 sq.ft. practice putting greens at both ends, 5,000 sq. ft. practice chipping greens at both ends featuring sand & rough & simulated fairways & even down hill lies. Includes target moguls plus substantial peripheral burming. All practice amenities.

Grasses:

• Tees, Fairways, Greens bentgrass.
• Greens average a massive 7,000 square feet!
• Rough bluegrass/fescues . Multiple varieties.
• Out-of-Play indigenous native grasses and wildflowers.
• Aquatic 50,000 hand-planted units of vegetation representing 60 species (emergants, flowering, grasses & wet-edge et al).

Sand:

• Formal bunkers Sidley white PGA TOUR spec sandbarged from Ohio Valley.
• Waste bunkers fine grade native sand. Prairie islands.
• Beach bunkers transitional Sidley sand between water and fairways.

Cart Paths:

• Concrete continuous. NO cartpath only nor 90-degree rule.

Special Features

• Signature Look of massive boulder retaining walls emerging from fronting lakes creating elevated greens at four strategic holes.
• Expansive waste bunkers appear on five holes.
• Arnold Palmer signature beach bunkers appearing on three holes.
• Prairie Fairways preserve areas at #13 and #141 million wildflowers.
• Wooden bridges spanning water features at three locations.
• 1500 head TORO LTV irrigation system at 2490 gallons/minute.

Clubhouse:

• Approximately 30,000 square feet. Parking lot with 150 stalls
• 10.4 acre site with adjacent 8 acre out lot
• Fieldstone, timber, planking, wood shake roof, light, bright, ample windows etc.
• Golf shop. Fully equipped with top-quality merchandise.
• Dining/Grill/Lounge/Function rooms plus patio dining all with southwesterly golf vistas.
• Attended Locker rooms both mens and womens.
• Administration areas and cart storage
• Archetect: Builder: Retail Construction