View from the 7th white tee at The Refuge Golf Club
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4.4
287 Reviews (287)
5 Stars
152
4 Stars
99
3 Stars
23
2 Stars
8
1 Stars
5
Conditions
4.4
Value
4.2
Layout
4.6
Friendliness
4.4
Pace
3.7
Amenities
4.1
91.4%
Recommend this course
266 out of 287 reviews
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4.7
6 Reviews (6)
5 Stars
4
4 Stars
2
3 Stars
0
2 Stars
0
1 Stars
0
Conditions
4.7
Value
4.5
Layout
4.7
Pace
4.2
Amenities
4.0
StaffFriendliness
4.3
100.0%
Recommend this course
6 out of 6 reviews
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4.3
38 Reviews (38)
5 Stars
23
4 Stars
8
3 Stars
3
2 Stars
2
1 Stars
2
Conditions
4.4
Value
4.0
Layout
4.5
Pace
3.7
Amenities
4.0
StaffFriendliness
4.3
86.8%
Recommend this course
33 out of 38 reviews
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About

Holes 18
Type Public
Par 72
Length 6534 yards
Slope 143
Rating 72.3
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The Refuge Golf Club
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Course Details

Year Built 2001
Fairways Blue Grass
Greens Bent Grass
Golf Season March - October
Architect Kevin Norby (2001) Don Herfort (2001)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes - $18
Clubs Yes
GPS Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Bunker Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes
Practice Hole Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted Visa, Mastercard, American Express
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Dress code A collared shirt and golf pants/shorts are preferred, but not required.

Food & Beverage

Bar, Restaurant

Available Facilities

Clubhouse, Banquet Facilities

Accolades

  • Golf Advisor: Top Courses in Minnesota (2019 #24)

Reviews

4.4
287 Reviews (287)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 18
Patio Dining 12
Dinner 6
Course Challenges Include:
Forced Carries 33
Bunkers 28
Water Hazards 25
This course/club is great for:
Advanced Golfers 22
Wildlife/ Scenic Views 22
Locals 15
This Course's Location is:
Worth the Drive 27
In the 'Burbs 19

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Played On
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
3.0
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First Time Playing

Above average course

The course was in excellent shape. Only complaints were: ball washer was bone dry and there were a lot of leaves on the course....finding your golf ball was sometimes difficult.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Amenities Good
Response from on 10/04/2017:
We are glad you found the course in excellent shape. However, we will look into your concerns and hope you give us another shot soon.
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Fair
Pace Excellent
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 6
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
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Commented on 11/27/2023

Hello and thank you for your 5-star rating! We're delighted you enjoyed your round. Please book another round with us soon, and thanks for choosing The Refuge Golf Club!

Played On
Reviews 5
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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Commented on 11/27/2023

Hello and thank you for your 5-star rating! We're delighted you enjoyed your round. Please book another round with us soon, and thanks for choosing The Refuge Golf Club!

Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played

Favorite course in North metro

My "go to" course during the week. Course is always in great shape. Good mix of long and short par 3's and gettable par 5's. Been playing here for years and never dissapointed.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Average
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Commented on 11/01/2023

Thanks so much for the great review, u572642873. We look forward to welcoming you back to our course soon. Thanks for choosing The Refuge Golf Club.

Played On
Reviews 16
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Good course

The greens aren’t all the way back after aerating. Generally the course is in good shape

Conditions Average
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Good
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Commented on 09/28/2023

Thanks so much for the great review, Rick1265411. We look forward to welcoming you back to our course soon. Thanks for choosing The Refuge Golf Club.

Played On
Reviews 12
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Very slow

Will not be back. Extremely slow pace of okay. Cheap carts and gps.

Conditions Excellent
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Amenities Fair
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Commented on 09/19/2023

Hi, HappyLearnedToPutt! Thank you so much for leaving us with your feedback. We value our customer experience, so your review is important to us. We will make note and we hope to see you back at The Refuge Golf Club!

Played On
Reviews 5
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
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Commented on 09/19/2023

Hi, natEzati. We would love to hear more about your 4-star experience on our course. Please tell us what we can do to earn that last star, and thanks for golfing at The Refuge Golf Club!

Played On
Reviews 1
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played
Wet weather
Used cart
Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
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Commented on 09/13/2023

Hi, u314161804877. We would love to hear more about your 4-star experience on our course. Please tell us what we can do to earn that last star, and thanks for golfing at The Refuge Golf Club!

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Reviews 20
Handicap 5-9
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Used cart

toooo sllloooow

We teed off at 12:54, played the first two holes at a reasonable pace and then hit No. 3, where there was a group on the green and one on the tee. Then, it got worse. On No. 4, a group on the green, one in the fairway, three on the tee (inccluding the group behind us). It was that way for at least the next 8 holes. When we finally finished, it was 6:15. Perhaps the course would be more playable if they spread the tee times out more. Like maybe 15 minutes between tee times. The bottleneck at 4 and 5 is real and needs to be planned for.

Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
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Commented on 09/13/2023

Hi, hoosierdaddy! Thank you so much for leaving us with your feedback. We value our customer experience, so your review is important to us. We will make note and we hope to see you back at The Refuge Golf Club!

Played On
Reviews 16
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Aerator warning

Yes I played this course. I actually play it quite often and I understand on the golf course is aerating the greens that there’s a problem but to have the whole back nine greens closed and temporary greens that weren’t really done that well for the whole back nine is a little outrageous, I only played 11 holes because we were playing at a snails pace, and when we got to the back nine, which was actually the front nine all the greens are closed for aeration I played many courses were the greens were aerated summer. Good night summer not so good but You should be told that at the beginning

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
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Commented on 09/05/2023

Hi, Rick1265411. We appreciate you taking the time to review the course and rate us. Your feedback helps us do better. Thank you for visiting The Refuge Golf Club. We hope you'll give us another try in the future.

Played On
Reviews 16
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great course, slow play

Needed a ranger today, they had a starter, but no one on the course to keep it moving. A guy I played with found 30 golf balls though .

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Amenities Good
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Commented on 08/15/2023

Hi, u486908480! Thank you so much for leaving us with your feedback. We value our customer experience, so your review is important to us. We will make note and we hope to see you back at The Refuge Golf Club!

Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Wet weather
Used cart
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
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Commented on 08/15/2023

Hello and thank you for your 5-star rating! We're delighted you enjoyed your round. Please book another round with us soon, and thanks for choosing The Refuge Golf Club!

Played On
Reviews 6
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
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Commented on 07/18/2023

Hello and thank you for your 5-star rating! We're delighted you enjoyed your round. Please book another round with us soon, and thanks for choosing The Refuge Golf Club!

Played On
Reviews 11
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Always Great

Love this place! Wish people would actually take the time to repair their ballmarks, but there was a tourney that wrapped up right before I teed off. Other than that-No complaints!!!

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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Commented on 08/01/2023

Thank you so much for the great review. We are glad you had an incredible time, and we hope to see you again soon! Thanks for choosing The Refuge Golf Club.

Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

New favorite course

This course was amazing. Really nice, great location and views, nice staff. Some people complain about the pace but even at normal pace it's hour twenty minute play per the scorecard. It's a difficult course but so fun. A couple other players had attitude and actually yelled at us and other groups - totally uncalled for. But most people were nice and the facilities were great.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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Commented on 07/18/2023

imiGPAr368jihwFHSimV, thank you for your kind words! We hope to see you again at the course very soon for another 5-star experience. Thanks for choosing The Refuge Golf Club.

Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
1.0
First Time Playing

Not a top 10 course

100$ to play 18 holes on Sunday with my friends. I’m standing on the 1st tee box and the ranger is digging through my golf bag while I’m teeing off, how distracting is that after I just payed. He didn’t find anything!!!!! We bought off the cart girl like why are you in my bag??!!! Never had that happen to me before. The cart broke down on the 2nd tee box had to get that replaced. I am lucky I didn’t get hit twice from the group behind us, both shots off the tee box before I can take my 2nd shot. One hit our cart and 1 almost hit me in the head I was angry I said something to them. I’ve never ever been treated that way at a golf course in Minnesota let alone claim to be a top 10 course. No one in the clubhouse cares that I almost got hit in the head with a drive, the refuge couldn’t care less. They told me see ya were sorry. I didn’t like how I was treated. Still broke 90 and I played terrible I wonder why I was so distracted!!!!

Conditions Good
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Poor
Pace Fair
Amenities Poor
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Commented on 07/18/2023

Hi rolliehockey27,

We’re sorry to hear of your less-than-satisfactory experience and hope you will accept our sincerest apologies.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
1.0
Previously Played

Really Slow! No ranger. We booked 18 quit after 9 holes.

We had a 3pm tee time to play 18 holes. 3 hours and 15 minutes to complete 9. Two to three groups waiting on some tees because groups further ahead of us where not moving. Never saw a ranger on the course. The beverage cart person mentioned that there was a group with a tournament a couple of holes ahead of us and they were really slow. We quit after 9. I heard from a couple of people that they squeeze in too many tee times and the pace of play is a problem. It is a nice course andI would like to play there more but not sure if I will go back.

Conditions Good
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
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Commented on 08/23/2023

We apologize for the pace of play issue you experienced. We always try to keep a great pace when having our golfers on the course. Thank you for taking the time to give us your feedback as we will use your review to better the experience going forward. We hope you give us another try in the near future!

Played On
Reviews 6
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
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Commented on 07/05/2023

Hello and thank you for your 5-star rating! We're delighted you enjoyed your round. Please book another round with us soon, and thanks for choosing The Refuge Golf Club!

Played On
Reviews 6
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played

Course conditions/staff

The golf course is in excellent condition from tees to fairways to greens!
Staff is outstanding, friendly, and accommodating.
Many sets of tee's to chose from.
Carts have GPS to show you hole layouts
Maintenance staff is friendly and work around your play
Pace of play can very
Mornings and weekdays excellent
Weekends good

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
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Commented on 07/05/2023

johnboy101, thank you for your kind words! We hope to see you again at the course very soon for another 5-star experience. Thanks for choosing The Refuge Golf Club.

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