The award-winning public golf course offers a unique, challenging, and scenic golf experience. Paul, and the Minneapolis/St Paul International Airport. Located in Prior Lake, Minnesota, the facility is just down the highway from Minneapolis, St. I’d highly recommend a round here if you are wanting to golf in the Twin Cities.The Meadows at Mystic Lake golf courses a true golf resort featuring extraordinary golf, a hotel, casino, and convention center. I think the only thing missing is a short par-3. Holes are framed well by mounding, trees and water. It is visually appealing, playable and has a driveable par-4. Out of the half dozen courses I’ve played around Minneapolis-Saint Paul I’d put the Meadows at the top. The greens were smooth and a medium pace. The green fee was $100 on a Friday afternoon which isn’t a bargain, but not too bad for a top course. The 17th, a par-3 with a marsh to the left, and the 18th, a 570 yard par-5, felt more like holes that would be found in the Carolinas rather than the Midwest. The 16th is a tricky par-4 with what I thought was the course’s most difficult approach shot. The back nine continues the theme of par-5’s with water and has three good closing holes. The 7th is a pretty par-3 (191 yards) that plays about a club downhill.

The 3rd has an island green that makes things interesting. The 3rd and 6th can be reachable par-5’s but the drive, layup and shot into the green all need to avoid water. On the front nine the 3rd, 6th and 7th are the best holes. Visually pleasing ones that require strategy to play. The hazards – which include multiple waterfalls – result in many good golf holes. Overall, I thought the Meadows was a bit tougher than the average casino course. As long as the rough isn’t too tall there is a lot of space there to find the ball.

The fairways are narrower than they appear and angle, so it is tougher than it looks to have a drive end up in the short grass. Depending on how you count, there is water (ponds and creeks) on ten to twelve holes.

The course sits on a fairly flat piece of land with water and tall grass being the main challenges. I played the blue tees which are 72.2/137/6688. I’ll call the Meadows a wetlands layout, although there are some inland links and parkland style holes. While I haven’t played any other designs by either of them, their portfolios of mostly Midwest courses look solid. I’m not sure how much of the original course is left, but Garrett Gill and Paul Miller get credit for the re-design. I believe the Meadows was previously known as Lone Pine Country Club and in the mid 2000’s the course was re-done.

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