Minneapolis, MN
Minikahda Club
Minikahda marked its thirty-fifth anniversary in 1933 by honouring three employees whose combined service reached a century: engineer Emil Anderson, greenkeeper Charles Erickson and professional Robert Taylor.1
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN
- Course
- 18 holes · par 73
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Minikahda Club history
At a dinner dance attended by 250 members and relatives, former president Charles R. Fowler presented the three men with gold wristwatches. A commemorative scroll recorded their service, making the Club’s anniversary a celebration of the people who sustained it.1
Minikahda hosted the 1988 U.S. Women’s Amateur. Pearl Sinn defeated Karen Noble 6 and 5 in the final.2
The course
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Championships
- 2017 U.S. Senior AmateurMinikahda Club
- 1998 Curtis CupMinikahda Club
- 1988 U.S. Women's AmateurMinikahda Club
- 1957 Walker CupMinikahda Club
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Results and dates 7 editions
Curtis Cup
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United States (Curtis Cup)
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U.S. Amateur
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Robert T. Jones Jr.
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U.S. Open
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Charles Evans Jr.
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U.S. Senior Amateur
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Sean Knapp
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U.S. Women's Amateur
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Pearl Sinn
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Walker Cup
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United States (Walker Cup)
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Western Amateur
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Mason E. Phelps
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Sources and editorial notes12 references
Sources for this story
- Golf’s Veteran Businessmen Honored by Their Clubs | Golfdom, January 1934 Golfdom / Herb Graffis, archived by Michigan State University
Institutional history and course description.
Consulted 2026-09-21 - 2026 USGA Media Guide: U.S. Women’s Amateur United States Golf Association
Championship results: 1988
Consulted 2026-09-23
Record sources10 references
- Club mark source
- Minnesota Golf Course Superintendents Association / Hole Notes
- USGA: 2026 U.S. Senior Amateur record book, page 9 Offline: archived primary source /Users/cwhitelam/Documents/AGA Research Archive/shared/usga-championship-records-20261024/26SeniorAm.pdf; SHA-256 db447a8079c9a707c54710acb92d7da567e788bc38b4b449c065d542155ab300. Exact result row: 2017 (Aug. 26-31) Sean Knapp d. Paul Simson, 2 and 1; The Minikahda Club, Minneapolis, Minn.; Medalist — 138, David Brown; Entries: 2,395 Use the championship final, not the qualifying medalist. Match-play outcomes are not stroke totals. Current routing, scorecard and par are not asserted. The primary result identifies this exact Club and place; the retained named physical Course is its sole Course identity. This links Course identity only, without asserting an unchanged historical routing or scorecard.
- R&A official Curtis Cup match history The primary match-history entry records these dates: 1998 (Aug. 1-2): USA 10, GB&I 8; The Minikahda Club, Minnesota Dates corroborated against the retained official USGA 2026 Record Book. No participant, score or historical routing changes are selected.
- 2026 USGA Media Guide: U.S. Women’s Amateur The championship was held from 1988-08-08 through 1988-08-13 at Minikahda Club.
- R&A official Walker Cup match history The primary match-history entry records these dates: 1957 (Aug. 30-31): USA 8, GB&I 3; The Minikahda Club, Minneapolis, Minn. Dates corroborated against the retained official USGA 2026 Record Book. No participant, score or historical routing changes are selected.
- USGA: 2024 U.S. Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 8, 1927 result row. Robert T. Jones Jr. d. Charles Evans Jr., 8 and 7. Match margins and extra-hole lengths are not stroke totals. Actual dates from the retrospective result table.
- 2026 USGA Championships Media Guide - U.S. Open The official 2026 USGA Championship Record Book directly enumerates the completed 1916 Championship, champion, explicit date span, and site in Championship Results: 1895 to 2025. The recorded champion and site preserve the higher-resolution register text. The current official U.S. Open Champions table independently confirms the year, champion, and site.
- USGA championship host record Dated USGA host wording Minikahda Club, Minneapolis, Minn. is explicitly reconciled to Minikahda Club in Minneapolis, MN. The dated register identifies the Club. A continuing physical Course identity is not inferred from a single stored Course or an unqualified venue name. Host and competition dates: www.usga.org
- Western Golf Association: 2025 Western Amateur Records and Statistics Guide WGA completed championship result; detailed guide PDF page115 and venue/summary table. Summary date endsJuly31; detailed header and actual final bracket explicitly say SaturdayJuly30. Actual completionJuly30 is retained.