Edina, MN

Interlachen Country Club

Interlachen began when golfers displaced from Minneapolis’s Bryn Mawr course sought a new home. Incorporated in December 1909, the Club acquired rolling farmland in Edina. Its name, meaning “between lakes,” reflected the setting.¹

Location: Edina, MN
Course: 18 holes · par 72 · Opened 1911
Original architect: Willie Watson
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Between lakes, across generations

Bobby Jones won the 1930 U.S. Open here, the third championship of his Grand Slam season. Five years later, Glenna Collett Vare defeated seventeen-year-old Interlachen golfer Patty Berg in the U.S. Women’s Amateur final.¹

The course

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CourseInterlachen Country Club18 holes · par 72 · Opened 1911 · View course record

Championships

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Results and dates 6 editions

BMW Championship

1914
Western Open
Jim Barnes
August 25–26, 1914

U.S. Open

1930
Robert T. Jones Jr.
July 10–12, 1930

U.S. Senior Amateur

1986
R.S. “Bo” Williams
September 15–20, 1986

U.S. Women's Amateur

1935
U.S. Women’s Amateur
Glenna Collett
August 26–31, 1935

U.S. Women's Open

2008
Inbee Park
June 26–29, 2008

Walker Cup

1993
United States (Walker Cup)
August 18–19, 1993

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ArchitectAndrew GreenRestoration · Interlachen Country Club · 2024

ArchitectDonald RossRedesign · Interlachen Country Club · 1919–1921

ArchitectWillie WatsonOriginal design · Interlachen Country Club · 1910

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Sources and editorial notes9 references

Sources for this story

History Interlachen Country Club
Timeline: 1909 foundation, Watson 1911 opening, Ross 1919–1921 redesign, 1930 and 1935 championships, 2024 Andrew Green restoration.
Consulted 2026-09-17

Record sources

Club mark source
USGA Women's Open Champions and Championship Results The official champions table records the 2008 winner and site. Recorded site text follows that table; no canonical Club or Course identity is inferred. Explicit date span: www.usga.org
Interlachen Country Club official history The official Edina, Minnesota history explicitly dates the first course opening to July 29, 1911. Watson designed it in 1910; the Club was founded in 1909. Ross was hired in 1919 and completed the redesign in 1921; Green is separately credited for the 2024 restoration. Preserve all three existing typed credits. The same-name Florida record is not this institution and receives no changes. This completed edition is after the established modern course era. Bind the named course without asserting unchanged historical tee positions or hole routing. Round use remains unspecified.
R&A official Walker Cup match history The primary match-history entry records these dates: 1993 (Aug. 18-19): USA 19, GB&I 5; Interlachen C.C., Edina, Minn. Dates corroborated against the retained official USGA 2026 Record Book. No participant, score or historical routing changes are selected.
USGA: 2026 U.S. Senior Amateur record book, page 8 Offline: archived primary source /Users/cwhitelam/Documents/AGA Research Archive/shared/usga-championship-records-20261024/26SeniorAm.pdf; SHA-256 db447a8079c9a707c54710acb92d7da567e788bc38b4b449c065d542155ab300. Exact result row: 1986 (Sept. 15-20) R.S. “Bo” Williams d. John Harbottle , 3 and 2; Interlachen C.C., Edina, Minn.; Medalist — 149, William Hyndman III ; Entries: 1,362 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.
USGA: 2026 U.S. Women’s Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 8, 1935 result row. Retrospective completed-championship result and date range.
2026 USGA Championships Media Guide - U.S. Open The official 2026 USGA Championship Record Book directly enumerates the completed 1930 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.
Western Golf Association: 2025 BMW / Western Open Records and Statistics Guide PDF page 79, 1914 chapter, plus summary page 3. Competition dates come from the actual year chapter; institutional venue and champion are independently cross-checked against the official publisher chronology.