The Preserve

Pequot Lakes sits at the heart of Minnesota's Brainerd Lakes Area, one of the Midwest's most celebrated golf destinations. The region draws players from the Twin Cities and beyond for its concentration of quality courses set among glacially carved lakes, pine forests, and rolling terrain — a landscape that gives northern Minnesota golf a character entirely distinct from the flat farmland courses to the south.

The Preserve's name points directly to its setting: this is resort golf designed to feel like an escape into the northwoods, where the natural surroundings do as much work as the architecture. Resort courses in this part of Minnesota tend to lean into the terrain rather than fight it, letting mature pines frame fairways and wetlands come into play as genuine hazards rather than decorative features.

As a full 18-hole resort layout in a region that takes its golf seriously, The Preserve likely draws a mix of vacationing families, serious players working through the area's course offerings, and cabin visitors for whom a round here is simply part of what a lakes-country summer looks like.