{"id":605142,"date":"2026-04-25T06:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605142\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T06:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:49:18","slug":"new-tepetonka-club-is-on-track-to-open-in-summer-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605142\/","title":{"rendered":"New Tepetonka Club is on track to open in summer 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

OCM Golf designs 18-hole course on a site that has 100-foot elevation changes, glacial moraines and Shakopee Creek running through it<\/p>\n

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By Kasturi Datta |<\/p>\n

\t\t\t 24 April 2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Tepetonka Club, a new private golf destination near New London, Minnesota, will open in summer 2026. The private club will have an 18-hole layout designed by OCM Golf, as well as a short course that CBS Sports commentator Jim Nantz has consulted on.<\/p>\n


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OCM\u2019s 18-hole design has been laid out on a 288-acre site, located 90 miles west of Twin Cities, which has naturally formed glacial moraines, 100-foot elevation changes, cedar trees and Shakopee Creek \u2013 a tributary of the Chippewa River \u2013 which comes into play on six holes.<\/p>\n


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Duininck Golf began construction in 2024, three years after Mark Haugejorde, a former general manager of the Jack Nicklaus International Golf Club and now CEO of Tepetonka Club, identified the former recreation site. \u201cThe only direction we were given was to find the best eighteen holes on the property, and that\u2019s what we\u2019ve tried our best to do,\u201d said Ashley Mead, principal at OCM, ahead of construction starting<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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Geoff Ogilvy, principal at OCM, added: \u201cThe site we\u2019re working with at Tepetonka is extraordinary. The first time we were on the property we knew Tepetonka was going to be special. It\u2019s rare to find property so naturally suited for golf that sixteen of the 18 holes required minimal to no earthmoving.\u201d<\/p>\n


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The OCM-designed golf course at Tepetonka Club is growing in ahead of a summer 2026 opening (Photo: Tepetonka Club)<\/p>\n


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Haugejorde said: \u201cOCM moved less than 1,000 yards of dirt on the first fourteen holes. That\u2019s almost impossible to do.<\/p>\n


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\u201cThrough design, construction and finishing, we\u2019ve seen our members change their favourite holes. There are three distinct topographies on the 228 acres: bluffs and a creek, similar to Montana; prairie and moraines, similar to Nebraska or Colorado dunes; and the four closing holes capture a Minnesota look and feel that OCM really love.<\/p>\n


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\u201cHole seven was the only obvious hole we identified before OCM arrived, but they found the location for hole three very quickly and it is a spectacular par three.\u201d<\/p>\n


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OCM has designed the course through a variety of topographies (Photo: Tepetonka Club) <\/p>\n


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Tepetonka\u2019s CEO also highlights the bunker and green complexes. \u201cThe moraines have saddles that lead the eye, and we have bunkering unlike any course in the upper Midwest,\u201d he said. \u201cThe green complexes are true to OCM\u2019s desire to make play more difficult for the low handicap player, and easier for the higher handicap players. It\u2019s a key reason we hired OCM.\u201d<\/p>\n


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The club will be managed by Kemper Sports and Jason McCarty has recently been hired as the director of golf following his work at Cabot Saint Lucia\u2019s Point Hardy Golf Club.<\/p>\n


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Tepetonka\u2019s short course \u2013 initially called The Prox but has since been renamed The Gjallarhorn \u2013 features green and bunker features that the 18-hole course could not accommodate. The involvement of Jim Nantz led to the introduction of a \u2018Rock of Fame\u2019 tee. \u201cThe first is at his home in Pebble Beach,\u201d said Haugejorde. \u201cEach day in the late afternoon, the Gjallarhorn will sound and players can come together and watch each other take a crack at making an ace from the Rock of Fame tee to the ninth green. The shaping features are similar to the sixteenth at Augusta, where Jim called his first Masters in 1986. Each player will be announced in Nantz fashion, and we’re confident that the camaraderie will be unlike any other.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OCM Golf designs 18-hole course on a site that has 100-foot elevation changes, glacial moraines and Shakopee Creek…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-605142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}