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Northwood Hills Golf Course is an 18-hole semi-private course in Garrison, Minnesota.

Designed by Robert Murphy. It plays 6,805 yards from the Blue tees, rated 72.8/126 (checked 2026-08-15).

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18
holes
72
par
6,805
yards (tips)
126
slope (blue)
The shape of the round · Blue teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLUE TEES338405188512356152393471407351564131391588394173336460142433455463748594104115123134145154163174184PAROUT 3,222 YDSIN 3,388 YDSFIRST NINESECOND NINE
The published card in playing order, 18 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

designer
Robert Murphy reported
access
semi-private
address
18217 Captive Lake Rd, Garrison, MN 56450, USA
elevation
1,278 ft derived
opened
1970

46.22644, -93.79442 — open on OpenStreetMap →

From above

Aerial imagery of the area around Northwood Hills Golf Course. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it, and the frame follows the course's location rather than a surveyed property line.

Aerial imagery of the area around Northwood Hills Golf Course, NAIP 2021. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it.

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Aerial imagery of the area around Northwood Hills Golf Course, NAIP 2021. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it. The map itself needs JavaScript.

Aerial imagery only, nothing traced over it yet · USDA NAIP 2021-07-25

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

All 4 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 4 rows.

BlueM726805contested661072.812632223388
WhiteM726352contested620070.512430303170
GoldM725772contested566768.011526872980
RedF74contested725094contested498870.111423132675

Every figure as published except Card par (derived) and Card yards (derived), which are summed from the card below and shown only where a published figure is contested; a blank cell elsewhere is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

The Red tees publish a par the scorecard below does not add up to. Both figures are published and nothing we hold settles which one a round plays to, so the Par column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own par row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

The Blue, White, Gold and Red tees publish a yardage total the scorecard below does not add up to. Both figures are published and nothing we hold settles which one a round plays to, so the Yards column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own yardage row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-15

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 443543454453454344 72
Blue 338405188512356152393471407351564131391588394173336460 6,805
White 300375179503291145382458397336546115372548341156322434 6,352
Gold 27031517148624913630442533131851698356496327135316418 5,772
Red 24823416339620413022338932625549090293452305105298387 5,094
Handicap 126814181021647917351113151

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Northwood Hills Golf Course hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard, but nobody has traced its holes: the bunkers, water and fairway edges a plan aims around.

It plans 4,579 courses hole by hole today, and it charts your bag anywhere.

  • The approach, planned A Studio approach map on the aerial photo: a lob wedge aimed at the island green, its spread drawn as a dashed ring over the water, and the side it most often misses. Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • The green, from LiDAR A Studio green view on the aerial photo: arrows for the slope a LiDAR survey measured, the area a cup could be cut, and the safer side to miss. Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • Every shot, tee to green A Studio plan on the aerial photo of a desert par 4: the driver off the tee and a 7-iron into the green between the bunkers, each shot with its landing spread drawn as a dashed ring. Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

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Pictures: Studio output for a sample golfer, drawn 2026-10-15. The Studio needs a free account. AI can make mistakes.

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Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Northwood Hills Golf Course's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

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Also bookable nearby: Eagle's Landing Golf Club and Grill (27 mi) · Gravel Pit (28 mi) · The Classic at Madden's (29 mi) · Pine Beach East Golf Course (30 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

How hard and how long this course plays against comparable courses — never how good it is.

FigureThis courseIn MinnesotaNationwideAmong its peers
Longest6,805 yds51st of 261=3,474th of 12,0253rd of 12 in the Brainerd, MN area · =454th of 2,030 semi-private courses · =1,643rd of 7,004 courses you can book · =3,449th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 126=130th of 221=5,028th of 8,710=725th of 1,395 semi-private courses · =2,360th of 4,936 courses you can book · =4,838th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 72.8=55th of 172=2,937th of 7,615=356th of 1,141 semi-private courses · =1,275th of 4,145 courses you can book · =2,912th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,711 yds between tees52nd of 249=4,037th of 11,523=621st of 1,970 semi-private courses · =2,095th of 6,653 courses you can book · =3,978th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1970=119th of 240=4,455th of 9,368=765th of 1,516 semi-private courses · =2,340th of 5,526 courses you can book · =3,157th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level1,278 ft derived 57th of 281=2,129th of 12,4375th of 12 in the Brainerd, MN area · 348th of 2,089 semi-private courses · =1,349th of 7,274 courses you can book · =1,454th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

A published figure is compared only against the courses that publish it too, which is why the totals differ from row to row — a state's length field is the courses with a scorecard, not the courses in the state. Height above sea level is the exception: we derive it from a coordinate, so its field is very nearly every course we render. Ties share an ordinal and are marked =. How this is computed →

What's on this page

In progress2 of 6 built

2 of 6 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

  • Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 4 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 4 sets of tees.
  • Course map, not built yet.We don't have a map of this course yet.
  • Per-hole distances, not built yet.The holes aren't traced yet, so there are no measured carries or distances to the green.
  • Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
  • Course details, partly built.5 of 7 background details — we don't hold a phone number and the grass on the greens.

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Sources

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Eagle's Landing Golf Club and Grill

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Gravel Pit

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The Classic at Madden's

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Pine Beach East Golf Course

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Grand View Lodge The Garden

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Stones Throw Golf Course

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Deacon's Lodge

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The Preserve

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Straight-line distance from this course's coordinates, within 60 miles — not driving distance, and it crosses state lines where the nearest courses are over one.

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