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From always being at the forefront of the development of golf in the U.S., Minnesota is now one of the hotbeds of the game. In fact, Golf Digest Magazine’s 2008 list of America’s 100 Greatest Public Golf Courses, has four from Minnesota in the top 60, more than California. Minne'snowda is ranked fourth highest in US golf destinations, behind Florida, Arizona and South Carolina and is the only state to have hosted all 13 USGA national championships, plus the Walker and Curtis Cup. It also hosted the 1932, 1954, 1959, 2002, and 2009 PGA Championships, the 2008 U.S. Women’s Open, and will host the 2016 Ryder Cup (Hazeltine) There's a ton of Minnesota golf history. It's buried under an airport runway in Richfield, a baseball field in Winona, a guy's driveway in Gem Lake and on the courses you are walking on today. It's where Bobby Jones won the third leg of the Grand Slam at Interlachen in 1930. Where in Maplewood the likes of Tommy Bolt and Ken Venturi won St. Paul Opens at Keller in the 1950s; By the way, when Keller began hosting the St. Paul Open professional tournament in 1930, to cover the tournament, KSTP pushed a radio transmitter around the course in a baby carriage. Chaska is where giant-killing Y.E. Yang cut down Tiger Woods in the 2009 PGA Championship at Hazeltine, and where after practicing in 1970, Jack Nicklaus declared it to be the most difficult course he’d ever played in a U.S. Open. In fact, many of the leading pros played poorly in that tournament, and criticized the course design. Course architect Robert Trent Jones shot back, “If it’s short, flat, dull courses that the pro golfers prefer, they can order them out of the Sears, Roebuck catalog. Let's always remember Minneapolis native Patty Berg, who learned to play golf at Interlachen in Edina, and went on to become a founding member of the LPGA, and one of the sport’s all-time great players. The first golf course in St. Paul was the Town & Country Club and was indirectly an offshoot of the St. Paul Winter Carnival—founded in 1887 by a Carnival crew looking for year-round recreation in the Capital City. The first course in Minneapolis was Bryn Mawr. The University of Minnesota purchased its golf course in 1926, and Tom Lehman, winner of the 1996 British Open hails from the U of M’s golf program. Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of F. Scott, was the better golfer, but, according to one biographer, both were equally big partiers and lived it up “Gatsby style.” They wreaked such havoc at the White Bear Lake Yacht Club clubhouse during the summer of 1922, that they were finally kicked out. America’s first fairway watering system was invented by Minikahda greenskeeper Charles Erickson and was, in part, the reason Minikahda hosted the U.S. Open in 1916. According to the National Golf Foundation, Minnesota consistently ranks near the top in golfer participation with more people per capita playing the game than any other state in the union. About one resident of every five hits the links each year. Not suprising consideriing that nearly 90 percent of over 500 golf courses in the Gopher state are open to the public. And, listen, while you are trying to hit the little ball it's always best to forget... In the Land of 10,000 Lakes, water is always in play.

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