The Tee Times Press Magazine’s Local Golf – Minnesota page delivers a variety of wonderful golf experiences covering the golf courses located in Minnesota. Articles for you to enjoy and learn about our local golf courses. Enjoy reading our articles on your favorite subject!

The Players Tour

The Players Tour

The Players Tour is an invitational program where the Minnesota PGA Junior Golf Committee and staff determines eligibility requirements and it is open to boys and girls ages 13-19.

Homeless Women Veterans Need Our Help

Homeless Women Veterans Need Our Help

My golf partner is chairwoman of a golf event supporting women veterans called Salute to Servicewomen Golf Classic. In Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan and military bases around the world, women soldiers serve side by side with their male counterparts.

What Is SmartPin?

What Is SmartPin?

Do you feel the ground trembling? That tremor is created by the stampede of golfers, scrambling to secure a tee time at a SmartPin Partner Facility. 

Minnesota PGA Announces 2020 Award Winners

Minnesota PGA Announces 2020 Award Winners

The Minnesota PGA announced the award winners for the 2020 season. We would like to congratulate these PGA Professionals for their commitment, leadership and excellence in promoting golf at their facilities and in their communities.

A Historic 2020 Tournament Season

A Historic 2020 Tournament Season

The 2020 golf season was in jeopardy just one year ago. What seemed like a promising early start to the season came to an abrupt halt.

Planning A Golf Tournament – Start With The Plan And The Team

Planning A Golf Tournament – Start With The Plan And The Team

Would you like to double or triple the income of your existing golf tournament? There are over 500,000 golf tournaments in the U.S. each year. The average event raises between $5,000 and $8,000. Why do some tournaments raise $80,000 to $100,000? They have a plan.

Decade Of Dominance – Sharing The Top

Decade Of Dominance – Sharing The Top

This is the last installment in our series on the Decade of Dominance. It is fairly obvious there was no Arnold Palmer, or Jack Nicklaus or Tiger Woods that emerged from the pack during the 2010’s.

Golf Travel Will Grow

Golf Travel Will Grow

The Psychic smiles as his thumb flips the remote to off. Bryson DeChambeau has won the U.S. Open with a combination of brains and brawn. 

POWER GOLF

POWER GOLF

“Uncontrolled power is the very devil – in golf or anywhere else.” Words of wisdom from Percy Boomer – probably the wisest golf instructor of all time.

Minnesota PGA Women’s State Open

Minnesota PGA Women’s State Open

Kathryn VanArragon (Bunker Hills GC) has made history yet again as the youngest winner in the 20 year history of the Minnesota Women’s State Open, held August 10-11, 2020 at The Jewel Golf Course in Lake City, Minnesota.

Minnesota Section PGA Professional Championship

Minnesota Section PGA Professional Championship

Dale Jones has been a class A member of the Minnesota Section for 27 years, yet it took him until this year’s Section PGA Professional Championship to get his first Section Stroke Play win. The two-day event was held on Tuesday, August 24-Wednesday, August 25, 2020 at Somerby Golf Club in Byron, MN.