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Highland National Golf Course

So maybe you aren’t the next Tiger Woods or Y.E. Yang, but if you’re still on a high from last week’s PGA Championship at Hazeltine, pick up your clubs and head for the hills. The city of St. Paul maintains four golf courses, including the Como Golf Course, Highland National, Highland 9-Hole, and Phalen Golf Course. You can book tee times online for any of these courses at www.GolfStPaul.org.

Follow in the footsteps of Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schultz, who learned to golf at the Highland National Golf Course. It was also renovated in 2005 and now boasts a longer and more challenging course. Golf instruction is even available by PGA and LPGA pros.

Nearby, the fairways at the Highland 9-Hole golf course are framed by large, mature trees and this course is perfect for all levels of golfers. If you haven’t played here before, try it out during one of the summer “Saturday Night Nine for Nine” events from 4-7 p.m. It costs just $1 per hole! Half price beer and wine is served from 5-8 p.m., so you can’t beat that deal.

Phalen Golf Course

Or try Como, which is great for average golfers, featuring rolling hills and water hazards.  Meanwhile, the 18-hole Phalen Golf Course is a par-70, with a driving range, putting green, and stretches along the west side of Lake Phalen in Phalen Park.

From beautiful weeping willows to devilish sand traps and large greens, these courses offer both scenery and challenges to keep you coming back for more.