The Meadows at Mystic Lake has won countless awards over the years and has been ranked high on the “Best in State” lists from GolfDigest, Golfweek and other regional golf/resort publications. This course was, is, and will be (when you play it) a most memorable golf experience. The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community purchased Lone Pine Golf Course in 2002 and hired Garrett Gill and Paul Miller to not only rebuild, but also to rebrand it as The Meadows at Mystic Lake, which opened in 2005.
But, while I was moving my family north to Minnesota, construction crews were moving dirt just south of Minneapolis, revealing a brand new course where Lone Pine Golf Course once stood – a course that is WAY more than “just a course” now… now that it is the feature amenity of a luxurious stay-and-play palace called Mystic Lake Casino Hotel. I didn’t play that course, so I know nothing about it – living in Dallas, Texas at the time. The course was called Lone Pine Golf Course. There was a golf course here in 2002 – here in the southeast corner of the Twin Cities between Prior Lake and Shakopee.
