The longest course in the Brainerd, MN area is Deacon's Lodge, at 6,943 yards — ahead of Eagle's Landing Golf Club and Grill at 6,871 yards and Northwood Hills Golf Course at 6,805 yards.
All 12 courses in the area with a published scorecard are ranked below, along with 1 more list: highest above sea level.
Brainerd, MN is a micropolitan area as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates it — the boundary is theirs, not ours. Each list counts only the courses in the area that publish that figure, so the totals differ between them. Slope and course rating measure difficulty, not quality — nothing here ranks how good a course is.
Longest
— all 12 courses with a published scorecard
| # | Course | Longest |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deacon's Lodge | 6,943 yds |
| 2 | Eagle's Landing Golf Club and Grill | 6,871 yds |
| 3 | Northwood Hills Golf Course | 6,805 yds |
| 4 | Golden Eagle Golf Club | 6,745 yds |
| 5 | The Preserve | 6,620 yds |
| 6 | Tianna Country Club | 6,550 yds |
| 7 | Long Bow Golf Club | 6,536 yds |
| 8 | Whitefish Golf club | 6,470 yds |
| 9 | Pine Beach East Golf Course | 6,101 yds |
| 10 | Sandtrap Golf Course | 3,019 yds |
| 11 | Grand View Lodge The Garden | 2,502 yds |
| 12 | Gravel Pit | 1,873 yds |
The longest tee set the course publishes, in yards from the tips. Compared against every course that publishes a scorecard — length is a measurement, not a verdict on the golf.
Highest above sea level
— all 12 courses with a coordinate we could sample
| # | Course | Highest above sea level |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tianna Country Club | 1,384 ft |
| 2 | Sandtrap Golf Course | 1,336 ft |
| 3 | Long Bow Golf Club | 1,330 ft |
| 4 | Golden Eagle Golf Club | 1,298 ft |
| 5 | Northwood Hills Golf Course | 1,278 ft |
| 6 | Whitefish Golf club | 1,274 ft |
| 7 | The Preserve | 1,258 ft |
| 8 | Grand View Lodge The Garden | 1,248 ft |
| 9 | Pine Beach East Golf Course | 1,236 ft |
| 10 | Deacon's Lodge | 1,233 ft |
| 11 | Gravel Pit | 1,207 ft |
| 12 | Eagle's Landing Golf Club and Grill | 1,194 ft |
Height above sea level at the course’s own published coordinate, sampled from the USGS 3DEP elevation model. THIS IS A FIGURE WE DERIVED, not one the course publishes — anybody can re-query the same public dataset at the same coordinate and get the same number, but no scorecard states it. Because every course carries a coordinate, this is the only board here whose field is nearly the whole database rather than the courses that publish a particular figure. Elevation changes how far a ball carries; it says nothing about whether a course is good.