Willinger’s Golf Club, Northfield Minnesota Once Played – Easily Remembered! 4 ½Stars as “Best Places to Play Golf” - Golf Digest

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Location: 20 minutes south of Burnsville, Mn. Follow Hwy 35 south to exit 69. Go west on Hwy 19, 1^1/₂ miles to Canby Trail. North on Canby Trail to Willingers.

Acreage: Total Site 277 acres Golf Course 217 acres

Architect: Gill Miller Architects, Inc. Builder: Enebak Construction

Par: 72 Yardage: 6800 yds. (Championship tees) Rating: 73.4 (Championship)

Slope: 148 (championship tees)

Key Design Features:

• N0 residential or commercial exposure
• Good enhancement of course using natural surroundings and abundant wildlife.
• Front nine has traditional core with good utilization of natural open water and marshlands.
• Back nine has significant topography and is in a 40-acre forest.
• Substantial water features 60 acres of natural open water and marshlands.
• Special strategic emphasis by architect on par 3s

Practice Facility:

• 10,000 sq. ft. practice putting green
• Separate chipping green w/practice bunker
• 50,000 sq. ft. practice tee

Grasses:

• Greens Penncross Bentgrass
• Fairways & Tees Arcadia and Touchdown Bluegrass
• Rough bluegrass/fescueMultiple varieties
• Out of Play areas indigenous native grasses
• Native aquatic vegetation

Bunkers

• 55 bunkers strategically placed to enhance the holes and require a high degree of course management from the player.
• All bunkers have been renovated including all new bunker sand.
• All new bunker sand Plaisted Companies, Inc.
• 20,000 sq. ft Beach Bunker on 18^th hole.

Cart Paths

• 6 wide continuous asphalt cart path.

Special Features:

• 72 tee boxes 4 per hole. Teeing areas averages 10,250 square feet.
• Greens average 7,750 sq. ft.
• Fairways account for 28 acres Generous landing areas, exacting approach shots.
• Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary certification in process.
• Hosted the 1994 U.S. Open Qualifying
• Nominated for Golf Digests Best New Public Golf Facility 1993.
• Rated 4 ¹/₂ Stars by Golf Digests Places to Play 2000-2001

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