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to the vision of Totton Peavey Heffelfinger,
creator of Hazeltine National
Golf Club. All eyes around the world will
look to his course when the 41st Ryder
Cup arrives in Chaska this fall. But before
unknowingly crafting the stage for what would eventually be
2016's largest golf event, Heffelfinger's first interaction with the
sport was much more modest, as he was born at the site of a tiny
six-holer in Wayzata.
Commonly referred to as " Tot, " Heffelfinger was one of the
great visionaries of Minnesota golf. He rose from prominence
in the early days of The Minikahda Club in Minneapolis to
Minnesota Golf Association president in 1931-32 to United
States Golf Association president in 1952-53.
A few years later, Heffelfinger had his grandest vision of all.
He founded a club in the western suburbs of the Twin Cities,
imagining it as a venue for Minnesota golf on a national stage.
The Executive Golf Club of Minnesota, he named it, and it was
formed in Chaska on June 8, 1961.
The name didn't stick. The new name, and the new course,
did. Hazeltine, formed by Heffelfinger and a few other business
associates, went on to host six major championships, and on
Sept. 30-Oct. 2 will be the site of the biennial battle between
the U.S. and Europe.
With Hazeltine claiming a prominent platform in Minnesota
as one of the state's-and soon to be the world's-most
well-known courses, it's interesting to think that its creator may
have been influenced by one of the most-oft forgotten: the lost
course of Ferndale.
By way of explanation, begin with the Minneapolis Tribune of
June 25, 1899. The newspaper's " On the Golf Links " column included
this one-paragraph entry on a plot of land on the southwest
side of Wayzata: " The new links at Ferndale, Lake Minnetonka,
were completed for use last evening and there was a little play over
them to try the ground. The course is laid out in six holes, averaging
200 yards, which gives a very satisfactory game. "
A golf course at Ferndale? You could ask a hundred people
who know Wayzata history or Minnesota golf history about
that, and you would get 99.8 blank stares.
A bit of background: Ferndale, a Wayzata neighborhood
occupying a peninsula off Lake Minnetonka, exudes wealth
and history. The peninsula a century ago (and today) has been
home to some of Minnesota's most affluent and prominent citizens:
Peaveys, Pillsburys, Boveys, Rands, Bells and many more.
The neighborhood's 1899 " golf course, " though billed more
often in sparse archival references as a practice course rather
than the real thing, was among the first 10 golf grounds in Minnesota.
Its only verified predecessors were Town & Country
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