Minnesota’s lost golf courses: Picture show
Two hundred lost golf courses later, I’m tired of writing.
For a day or two.
Having identified 12.66666666666667 dozen lost golf courses in Minnesota (I did the math on my computer’s calculator and copied the answer), no more purple prose for now. Just some of my favorite photographs. Limit one photo per lost course. And please, if for some reason you feel inclined to share any of these, feel free, but credit the source on the photo, if there is one.
Hover over the image with your mouse to see caption, and apologies for the rudimentary web display.
Also, in the event you might like to take a look at my updated Google map with all 200 lost courses, click here.
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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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