{"id":390493,"date":"2026-01-05T23:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/390493\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T23:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:00:12","slug":"two-minnesota-golf-courses-damaged-by-vandals-riding-snowmobiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/390493\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Minnesota golf courses damaged by vandals riding snowmobiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Vandals in Minot, Minnesota, have caused thousands of dollars in damage to parts of two golf courses with a snowmobile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Five greens between Souris Valley Golf Course and Jack Hoeven Wee Links were the targets, and the offenders were caught on videotape, though the surveillance footage didn&#8217;t get a clear image of their faces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident happened on the Sunday following Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cGolf course staff was out checking the course. They notice the damage. We\u2019ve taken pictures and reported it to the Minot Police Department,\u201d Minot Parks Director of Operations Jarrod Olson told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kfyrtv.com\/2026\/01\/05\/snowmobile-damage-minot-golf-courses-could-lead-costly-repairs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TV station KFYR;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TV station KFYR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Olson is estimating it&#8217;ll take $5,000 to $6,000 to repair each green but added that golf course crews won&#8217;t know the full extent of the damage until spring after the snow melts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As far as the vandals, who have still not been caught: &#8220;In their mind, they\u2019re probably thinking, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s an open area. It\u2019s not damaging anything.\u2019 Well, unfortunately, it is. And motor vehicles, snowmobiles, ATVs and UTVs are not allowed on our properties,\u201d Olson told the TV station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Golfweek: <a href=\"https:\/\/golfweek.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/golf\/courses\/2026\/01\/05\/two-minnesota-golf-courses-damaged-vandals-snowmobiles\/88036622007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Two Minnesota golf courses damaged by vandals riding snowmobiles;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Two Minnesota golf courses damaged by vandals riding snowmobiles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vandals in Minot, Minnesota, have caused thousands of dollars in damage to parts of two golf courses with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,18371,165636,2598,165634,165635,82],"class_list":["post-390493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-golf-courses","tag-jarrod-olson","tag-minnesota","tag-minot-police-department","tag-souris-valley-golf-course","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}