Minikahda Club

Set on bluffs above Bde Maka Ska (formerly Lake Calhoun) in southwest Minneapolis, The Minikahda Club is a private, 18-hole parkland course with long views toward the city skyline. The Colonial-Revival clubhouse anchors the northeast corner; a steel-arch bridge carries golfers over busy Excelsior Boulevard to outlying holes, an unusual circulation feature for a city course. Current amenities include multiple practice areas (putting and chipping greens, a driving range and an iron range) and, as part of recent campus improvements, a year-round practice facility integrated with a new golf shop. In everyday play the course presents firm, fast conditions with tightly-bunkered green sites and strategic angles into tilted, often fall-away putting surfaces—traits reinforced by recent restoration work guided by architect Kyle Franz to re-emphasize Donald Ross’s 1920 redesign. The club hosts member and invitational play and periodically stages elite amateur competitions; its championship pedigree includes six USGA events spanning more than a century.