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The Wilderness at Fortune Bay is an 18-hole resort golf course in Tower, Minnesota.

Designed by Jeffrey D. Brauer. It plays 7,207 yards from the Gold tees, rated 75.3/142 (checked 2026-08-15).

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18
holes
72
par
7,207
yards (tips)
142
slope (gold)
The shape of the round · Gold teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — GOLD TEES649472220410364464157525396455465166340392530540189473152433445464738594104114123134144155165173184PAROUT 3,657 YDSIN 3,550 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
Jeffrey D. Brauer reported
access
resort
address
Bois Forte Road, Tower, MN
elevation
1,396 ft derived
opened
2004
on site
driving range · restaurant

47.82012, -92.34791 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 11 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

215 traced features across 8 layers for The Wilderness at Fortune Bay, drawn over NAIP 2021 aerial imagery.

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215 traced features across 8 layers for The Wilderness at Fortune Bay, drawn over NAIP 2021 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

18
Holes
22
Fairways
64
Bunkers
7
Water
18
Greens
69
Tee pads
7,207yds
Gold tees
649yds
Longest hole
157yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2021-08-13 – 2021-08-14

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.

GoldM72720775.314236573550
BlueM72677273.213734283344
WhiteM72614770.413130943053
RedM72532471.712926642660

Every figure as published; a blank cell is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-15

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 543444354443445534 72
Gold 649472220410364464157525396455465166340392530540189473 7,207
Blue 587453193393348435139511369430427157325374507517174433 6,772
White 562426166330313375124456342403383129301341458486144408 6,147
Red 470385133305279331115381265343333107277304376438114368 5,324
Handicap 351571311791110816141262184

Plan it in the Studio

Plan The Wilderness at Fortune Bay hole by hole, for your game.

Ask in plain words. The Studio draws each hole on the aerial photo, picks a club for each shot from your carries and the way you miss, and shows where a miss costs you strokes. Where a green was surveyed, it reads the slope too.

  • 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

Plan this course in the Studio

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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Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to The Wilderness at Fortune Bay's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

Check tee times and rates

Also bookable nearby: Wolfridge Golf Course (18 mi) · Babbitt Golf Course (19 mi) · Virginia Golf Course (22 mi) · Ely Golf Club (23 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
Longest7,207 yds7th of 261=623rd of 12,025=58th of 601 resort courses · =251st of 7,004 courses you can book · =622nd of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 142=16th of 221=617th of 8,710=53rd of 477 resort courses · =213th of 4,936 courses you can book · =606th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 75.3=6th of 172=360th of 7,615=28th of 446 resort courses · =117th of 4,145 courses you can book · =358th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,883 yds between tees36th of 249=2,925th of 11,523214th of 593 resort courses · =1,437th of 6,653 courses you can book · =2,878th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 2004=225th of 240=8,690th of 9,368=462nd of 516 resort courses · =5,137th of 5,526 courses you can book · =6,463rd of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level1,396 ft derived 28th of 281=1,848th of 12,437169th of 616 resort courses · 1,142nd of 7,274 courses you can book · =1,273rd 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 progress4 of 6 built

4 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, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery.
  • Per-hole distances, built.Every hole is traced, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along the line you actually play.
  • 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.

The site is in beta and the database is still being built, so expect gaps. Know something we don't? Help us fill it in — a link to where it's published is worth more than anything else you could send.

Sources

Gathered from the course's own site and public records — every figure on this page is traceable to who published it and when. Spot an error or a gap? Tell us.

Location and identity seeded from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Last checked 2026-08-15. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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Babbitt Golf Course

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The Quarry

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Virginia Golf Course

22 mi · Virginia · public · 18 holes

Ely Golf Club

23 mi · Ely · semi-private · 18 holes

Vermilion River Greens

23 mi · Buyck · public · 9 holes

Eveleth Municipal Golf Course

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Mesaba Country Club

41 mi · Hibbing · semi-private · 18 holes

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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