NEW - September 2026 FEGC Minnesota Road Trip

Hello all,

I mentioned this in our Sunday email this week, but we have a fresh slate of new events we are excited to unveil for fall of this year. Details for our Brambles, Wild Spring Dunes, and Louisiana trips will be announced next week, but today I want to quickly talk about our new Minnesota Road Trip. This is a Donald Ross special, featuring four amazing designs that are all exceedingly different.

Dates: September 20-24, 2026

Registration: May 20, 2026 at Noon ET - Registration Page

Courses: Northland Country Club, White Bear Yacht Club, Woodhill Country Club, and Minneapolis Golf Club

Background:

We hosted a Minneapolis trip last fall and decided the area needed more attention. So this year, we put together a variation of our 2025 trip and spiced it up with more Donald Ross focus.

White Bear Yacht Club is one of my favorite places in the country, so I started there. It's an amazing golf course with some wild topography and the dinner we are able to host in their Commodore Room is out of this world. Tuesday, done.

Then, I looked around at what other Ross courses we hadn't seen in Minneapolis and settled on Minneapolis Golf Club. Located just west of town, MGC is overlooked because of its Interlachen and Hazeltine shaped neighbors but it offers some terrific architecture and some great Ross greens. Boom, Thursday, done.

While searching around the west side of town, I noticed Woodhill Country Club, a Ross design that I knew very little about. Sure enough, Brian Schneider was doing work on the club and they are reopening after a full restoration. Brian has done some amazing work in recent years and the opportunity to see a new one of his restoration projects tickled my fancy. Wednesday, done.

Finally, there has always been a calling to make the trip up to Duluth to see Northland Country Club. According to many people I trust, it is an amazing place with equally wild topography to White Bear and even better views. Overlooking Lake Superior, this is an amazing venue that very few have made the trip to see. For Ross enthusiasts, or really just golf enthusiasts, this felt like a place we needed to see. So that goes Monday to begin the trip.

All together, this is four days of some amazing golf course architecture featuring Ross in different stages of his career, and the current courses are in different stages of their lives as well. Some are coming off fresh restorations, others are working on long-term projects, and others still are as pure as they were the day they opened. It's a trip I am exceptionally excited to embark on and I cannot wait for the group to join in.

Let me know if you have any questions!