Few courses in America ask you to earn your scenery quite like this one. Bully Pulpit sits in the badlands of western North Dakota, routed through the dramatic terrain surrounding Medora — a town that exists largely because Theodore Roosevelt came here in the 1880s to ranch and found the landscape transformative. The name itself is pure Roosevelt, his favorite expression for a platform worth using. Playing here, you understand immediately why he chose it.
The course tumbles through rugged coulees, across native grassland, and along ridgelines that open onto views most golfers never expect to find at a public layout in the northern plains. The badlands don't just frame the holes — they are the holes, with elevation changes and naturalistic shaping that would be impossible to manufacture anywhere else.
Medora draws visitors primarily for the outdoor musical and the Roosevelt connection, but Bully Pulpit has built a national reputation of its own, regularly appearing on best-of lists for public golf in the United States. It rewards anyone willing to make the drive.
