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Lost golf courses

Seventeen months after the first interview — with the engaging, gracious and sharp-witted Mike Rak, who showed me all around Hilltop Public Golf Links in Columbia Heights and whetted my appetite for learning more about lost courses — we have a book in print. What a journey. Thanks, everyone, for the support.

Moving on … you might want to know where you can get the book. In addition to the online options mentioned at the end of this post, these fine bookstores, retail outlets and golf pro shops have it in stock:

— Balmoral Golf Course, Battle Lake
— The Bluffs at Coffee Mill, Wabasha
— The Bookcase, Wayzata
— The Book Shelf, Winona
— Common Good Books, St. Paul (Grand and Snelling)
— Eagle Valley Golf Course, Woodbury
— Edinburgh USA, Brooklyn Park
— Golf Headquarters, Rochester
— Golf USA, Eden Prairie
— Indian Hills Golf Club, Stillwater
— Lake Country Booksellers, White Bear Lake
— Lester Park Golf Course, Duluth
— Love From Minnesota, Roseville
— The Mane Tease, White Bear Lake
— Micawber’s Books, St. Paul (St. Anthony Park neighborhood)
— Minnesota History Center, St. Paul
— Northland Golf & Ski, La Crosse, Wis.
— Oak Marsh Golf Course, Oakdale
— The Ponds at Battle Creek Golf Course, Maplewood
— Pearl Street Books, La Crosse, Wis.
— Pine Creek Golf Course, La Crescent
— Roseville Cedarholm Golf Course
— Ross Himlie Photography, Rushford
— Rushford Foods, Rushford
— Southview Country Club, West St. Paul
— Stillwater Country Club
— SubText: A Bookstore, St. Paul (Selby and Western avenues)
— Valley Bookseller, Stillwater
— White Bear Lake Historical Society
— Winona County History Center

Please consider patronage of these businesses. I will be working to get the book stocked on additional store and pro-shop shelves in the coming weeks and will be updating the list when “Fore! Gone.” becomes available at other sites.

The book also is available through this website (just find a “click to order” button; the process is simple and safe), or on Amazon.com.

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Joe Bissen

Joe Bissen is a Caledonia, Minnesota, native and former golf letter-winner at Winona State University. He is a retired sports copy editor at the Minneapolis Star Tribune and St. Paul Pioneer Press and former sports editor of the Duluth News-Tribune. His writing has appeared in Minnesota Golfer and Mpls.St.Paul magazines. He lives in South St. Paul, MN. Joe's award-winning first book, "Fore! Gone. Minnesota's Lost Golf Courses 1897-1999," was released in December 2013, and a follow-up, "More! Gone. Minnesota's Lost Golf Courses, Part II" was released in July 2020. The books are most readily available online at Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble (bn.com). He continues to write about lost courses on this website and has uncovered more than 245 of them.

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  1. Visited Lake Country Booksellers in White Bear Lake last weekend to pick up a copy of your book. Found it to be a very interesting read; didn’t put it down until I had finished every chapter. Probably I will re-read the book a few times to capture more detail; would love to hear news in the future that it will be YOU who writes a sequel to include all of the courses that have closed since 2000. You could call it “fore. gone.(again)” Your style is very easy to read and follow. Thanks for the wonderful addition to my golf library!

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