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( Metro Tour: Part 3
EDITOR'S NOTE:
This is the fi nal installment in a three-part series on the
golf courses of the Twin Cities metro area. In this installment,
Minnesota Golfer explores the history of private
golf courses and their role as the earliest golf clubs in
Minnesota.
By Chuck Lennon
Perhaps the best kept secret about Twin Cities private clubs
is that they laid the foundation for golf in Minnesota.
y the turn of the 20th
century, there were four
private country clubs in
the metro area. The fi rst
was conceived when several groups
connected to the St. Paul Winter
Carnival-in particular, the Nushkas-extended
their social and recreational
pursuits year round and
named their alliance the
Town & Country Club.
In February 1888, that
new club had 170 members,
including
railroad
baron James J. Hill and
Lucius B.
Ordway.
The
members leased an entire hotel
on Lake Como and had tennis but no
golf. In late 1889, they relocated to the
club's current site and commissioned
architect Cass Gilbert (who built the
Minnesota Capitol building) to construct
a clubhouse. Hill was among the
dozen people who played the course
during its fi rst season; he hosted a
group of German investors for golf on
a Sunday as he was fi nancing his Great
Northern Railway.
Ordway, Hill and Gilbert were also
members of the White Bear Yacht
Club (WBYC), where golf eclipsed
sailing by the 1930s, " probably because
it was very expensive and golf
was more doable, " says Brian Seim, an
executive at WBYC.
N CLUB OF CHAMPIONS
The Minikahda Club has played host to several notable events won by noteworthy champions. In 1927 Bobby
Jones took the third of his fi ve U.S. Amateur Championships there, and in 1957 the United States topped Great
Britain and Ireland in the Walker Cup. In 1988 Minikahda hosted the U.S. Women's Amateur, and 10 years
later it was home to the 30th Curtis Cup matches. In 2007, Minnesota's Jim Lehman lost in the fi nals of the
Trans-Mississippi after 20 holes to Trent Brown of Scottsdale, Ariz. But most notable was the 1916 U.S. Open
Championship, which was won by amateur Charles " Chick " Evans, who famously donated his winnings to
fund what is today known as The Evans Scholarship. After Evans won with just seven clubs in his bag, the
members hired Donald Ross to ramp up the golf course!
Pictured left: Bobby Jones and Charles " Chick " Evans
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