The Bridges Golf Course

The Bridges is a public 18-Hole Championship Golf Course located in Winona, MN. Set in Winona’s beautiful Pleasant Valley, The Bridges offers striking vistas and a challenging golf course. Pleasant Creek winds through the course, coming into play on nine of the eighteen holes. Multiple tees and several elevation changes give all players the opportunity to challenge their game.

Proud host of the 2023 NCAA Division 2 Men’s Golf Regional Championship, The Bridges is located off County Road 17, just a few minutes from downtown Winona. The Bridges, with Signatures Restaurant, offers a great golf and dining experience for all.

Bridges Golf Course is a founding member of the Minnesota Golf Association.

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Our history

The golf course now called The Bridges opened in 1920 as a nine hole course named the Winona Country Club designed and built by its first golf professional, Ben Knight. Winona Country Club was one of the original clubs that formed the Minnesota Golf Association and hosted several Minnesota State Championships through the years; the most recent was the 2001 Men’s Amateur Championship.

In the mid 1960’s, several Winona Country Club Members contacted golf course architect Robert Trent Jones, who was in Minnesota designing the Hazeltine National Golf Club. Mr. Jones did an aerial trip over the property and sketched out a rough draft. Meetings were held on land acquisition. William and Lois Christensen donated the land needed for the additional holes. The Winona Country Club became an eighteen hole course. The current eighteenth hole was designed by Joel Goldstrand and put into play in 1994, this new hole allowed for the creation of a practice tee area.