Architect
Joel Goldstrand
Joel Goldstrand (1939-2022) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and raised in Worthington, where he starred on a state championship high school team before playing on the PGA Tour and later serving as a club professional in Minneapolis. He shifted into course design and, over more than three decades, laid out or contributed to close to a hundred courses across the Upper Midwest. A member of the Minnesota Golf Hall of Fame, Goldstrand focused his career on affordable, well-designed public golf rather than high-profile destination courses, concentrating most of his work within a day's drive of the Twin Cities. His courses are remembered for consistently interesting, playable layouts that broadened access to quality golf across the region.
- Courses on BogeyMap
- 33
- States
- 4
- Avg LooperScore
- 72.5
- Highest rated
- Saint Croix National
Biography
Joel Goldstrand (1939-2022) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and raised in Worthington, where he starred on a state championship high school team before playing on the PGA Tour and later serving as a club professional in Minneapolis. He shifted into course design and, over more than three decades, laid out or contributed to close to a hundred courses across the Upper Midwest. A member of the Minnesota Golf Hall of Fame, Goldstrand focused his career on affordable, well-designed public golf rather than high-profile destination courses, concentrating most of his work within a day's drive of the Twin Cities. His courses are remembered for consistently interesting, playable layouts that broadened access to quality golf across the region.
Where the work is: WI · MN · ND · SD