John Fought’s design completely enhances the prevailing South Course, that includes strategic challenges and distinctive renditions of “template” holes
Independence, MN (July 9, 2025) – With this month’s official opening of its North Course, Windsong Farm turns into the primary non-public membership in Minnesota to supply two excellent and really totally different 18-hole golf experiences.
Together with the prevailing South Course, membership members now get pleasure from a tremendous number of golf-architecture experiences, a mixture of new and previous design ideas that construct on the sport’s traditions of strategic design whereas offering enjoyment to golfers of all ability ranges.
Each programs had been designed by famous architect and former PGA TOUR participant John Fought, whose different unique work consists of the Championship Course at Sand Hole Resort—cited by Golf Digest as one of the best course in Utah—and each programs at The Gallery in Arizona, former venue for the TOUR’s Tucson Open. Fought has additionally achieved vital renovation work at programs across the nation. Fought co-designed the South Course in 2002 with Minnesota native and PGA TOUR Champions participant Tom Lehman.
Windsong Farm proprietor David Meyer requested Fought to make the North Course pretty much as good, enjoyable, however totally different from the South Course, which extends to greater than 7,500 yards and options massive greens with delicate undulations and assortment areas impressed by the work of Donald Ross.
The brand new North Course is on a smaller piece of property—about 125 acres vs. 220 for the South—and pays homage to a number of totally different Golden Age architects, notably Seth Raynor. It’s a par 70 that may be stretched to not fairly 6,500 yards however affords fixed strategic problem together with Fought’s tackle a number of basic “template” gap designs, together with an Eden inexperienced (2), Biarritz inexperienced (4), a Dell gap (8), Redan inexperienced (17), and a Cape (18). Holes 13 and 16 share a boomerang-shaped double inexperienced, a lot of the bunkers are rectangular with grass faces, and the fairways are broad and open with a strip of maintained tough that leads into skinny and wispy fescue.
“You wouldn’t know the identical individual designed each of those programs,” Fought says. “The North appears to be like like a golf course that got here from the early 1900’s. It’s on a really small piece of land and I needed to show to people who size isn’t the one manner so as to add drama to a golf course.”
With spectacular views of Fox Lake and surrounding horse pastures, the North Course consists of six par-three and 4 par-five holes. There isn’t any repetition of holes by par till quantity 14, which is the primary of three consecutive par-fours. It’s, says Fought, probably the most various course he’s ever constructed. And in one other nod to programs from golf’s illustrious previous, Fought’s North Course permits golfers to step off the inexperienced and onto the following tee, eliminating lengthy walks between holes.
“This course goes to pressure you to suppose,” Fought says. “You may’t simply rise up and hammer it. You’ll should suppose, ‘Do I wish to hit driver right here?’ Among the greens are tiny, and others are big. The Biarritz inexperienced at quantity 4 is 17,000 sq. ft, the place a traditional inexperienced is 6,000. And I believe golfers will use each membership on the par-threes.”
“We configured it to create probably the most variety you may get on a golf course.”
Along with a serious bunker renovation and course enchancment challenge in 2015, Fought just lately up to date the membership’s observe space, which options East and West teeing decks, artificial teeing areas, a educating constructing, 5 observe placing greens, and a brief sport space constructed to the identical USGA specs because the golf programs.
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About Windsong Farm
The one non-public membership in Minnesota with two 18-hole golf programs, Windsong Farm Golf Membership treats its members to extraordinary golf and hospitality experiences. With designs by Tom Lehman and John Fought, the architectural variety of the golf programs retains an avid golf membership challenged. A newly renovated golf store, expansive observe amenities, a snug farm-style clubhouse, and on-site lodging within the Murphy Home are among the many membership’s distinctive options. Surrounded by panoramic vistas and embraced by the tranquil great thing about the Midwest, Windsong Farm Golf Membership is a proud supporter of newbie golf. Windsong hosted the 2021 Trans-Mississippi Novice Championship and is dwelling to the annual College of Minnesota Gopher Invitational males’s golf event and can be internet hosting the 2027 WGA Western Junior.
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