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( Metro Tour: Part 2
EDITOR'S NOTE:
This is the second in a three-part series on the golf courses of the Twin Cities metro area. In
this installment, Minnesota Golfer explores the history of public-access (not municipally
owned) golf courses and the explosion in the number of these daily fee golf courses over the
last two decades.
Daily fee golf came into its own in the Twin Cities late in the twentieth
century. Now it's a thriving component of metro area golf.
By Chuck Lennon
he origin of golf in
Minnesota (like in many
other places) begins with
private clubs. The fi rst
courses built here were formed around
private clubs (look for the third installment
of this series in the Summer
issue of Minnesota Golfer for more
about private courses in the Twin
Cities), but ultimately the strength
of the game in every state increased
thanks in part to the public-access
courses. The history and growth of
daily fee courses in Minnesota is long
and storied, providing some of the
best public golf in the area.
The fi rst daily fee course in the state
came along in 1935, when Brockway
Golf Course was developed in Rosemount
on the grounds of Brockway
Glass Company. After that, the development
of daily fee courses quieted
until 1956, when Lakeview Golf of
Orono was built. The increasing popularity
of the game hastened the call for
more challenging golf courses, and the
rapid development of new courses between
1980 and 2000 helped fulfi ll that
demand. In fact, from 1988 to the
present, 144 golf courses were built
statewide; 93 percent of those are
daily fees.
The motivations for the growth in
daily fee development are many. For
starters, a mid-1990s National Golf
Foundation feasibility study suggested
that land used for golf courses was
a good investment because it holds
its value and has redevelopment potential.
More television coverage of
golf events was also an infl uence, and
more interest in the game among
women and juniors provided an impetus
for growth as well. The sheer
number of baby boomers put more
golfers in play-including many newly
rich business people, successful entrepreneurs
and investors who wanted
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