Pezhekee National Golf Course

Few corners of Minnesota invite you to slow down quite like Glenwood, a small city on the southern shore of Lake Minnewaska in Pope County — one of the cleaner, quieter lakes in a state that has no shortage of them. The land here is rolling glacial terrain, open sky, and the kind of unhurried pace that tends to make a round of golf feel like it actually belongs to the afternoon rather than racing against it.

Pezhekee takes its name from the Ojibwe word for buffalo, a nod to the Indigenous history woven into this part of west-central Minnesota. That connection to place gives the course an identity beyond the typical small-town layout — it's a name worth knowing before you arrive, not just a name you read off a sign.

As a community course serving a lake-country resort town, Pezhekee draws a reliable mix of locals and vacationers making the most of Minnesota's relatively short but genuinely beautiful golf season. Expect firm, open fairways, manageable conditions, and the kind of casual hospitality that defines golf in outstate Minnesota.