Hastings Golf Club & Events

Hastings is a good local course that is built on some interesting land and has a friendly staff.

PACE: Was the first one out and moved well. Encountered a few workers on the course and they were very friendly and accommodating. Thank you.

CONDITIONS: It's early in the season, so I hope the bare spots are from winter and fill in during the season. There were some spots on the greens that I hope heal up in the months to come as well. Not all bunkers had sand in them. Hole #14 (a signature hole with a beautifully framed second shot into the green) had just dirt in the front left greenside bunker.

STAFF: Very friendly and helpful. Thank you for a great experience here.

VALUE: If I understand correctly, Hastings has a membership but remains open to public play. This may explain the greens fee, which I thought was ($20) higher than I thought would be considered fair for this course.

LAYOUT: Great use of the rolling terrain, especially on the back 9. The stretch from hole #12 thru hole #16 uses the ground and topography to make a variety of interesting challenges.

This course will be amazing in another three weeks or so. Right now it has some winter scars, but to be expected this time of year. The cups on the green were actually ice cold and sweating, had never experienced that before. Given the time of year and everything, it was a good round.

Tucked away in a Hastings neighborhood you will find a really nice course. Long, challenging, with fast greens and always in great shape. Can be slow on the weekends. The facilities are great. The staff is friendly.

I played this course for the first time ever 2 weeks ago and I have played it twice more since. The first points that this place scored were in the clubhouse. The young man running the desk has a gift for customer service that shouldn’t go unmentioned. I can’t recall his name but he puts in a noticeable effort to be kind, respectful, and accommodating. I think the best way to describe the golf course is well kept and challenging, but fair. I don’t think I have played a single course in the entire Twin Cities area that can compete with the quality and layout of Hastings Golf Club in the same price range.

I waited to post this review but feel people have a right to know. Worst golfing experience of my life. Ranger acted like a general. Got on our case on second hole and started threatening us. He then started following us and watching us on almost every hole. He let his cronies play through after 9 holes. We finished in 2 hours and 8 minutes. We wound up waiting for them for 20 minutes to reach the 10th tee., ;let Ranger would not let us out. We wound up waiting on that group on several holes. Just absolutely ruined the whole experience. Did not play well because of it. So its hard to like a course under those circumstances. I can't say I ever plan to go back.

My experience to start out was not good at all. You should fire your starter. When I checked in at the pro shop the kid behind the counter said it'd be no problem to go out as a single. He could squeeze me in and gave me a key to the cart. I got down to to the first hole and the starter doesn't even say welcome. Thank you for coming hello instead. He says you're being paired up with these three. I explained to him that the kid in the pro shop said I could go out as a single, the two older people said they wanted to play just by themselves too. Too the kid on the tee box. He didn't say anything.. to make matters even worse he told me they don't have enough carts and I have to hand him that key and be paired up with this kid. I felt like telling him you running out of carts is not my problem but I was polite and only told him that you and the pro shop need to get on the same page. There's some constructive criticism for you. So on a beautiful day you had three out of four ticked off people but it ended up that we all got along really good and had a good round and I love the course.

We had a great time on a very nice course with very interesting layout ! Few places on fairways were a bit rough but mostly in good condition, especially tee boxes and greens!

Course layout was a bit weird. If you like challenging greens with subtle breaks this is the course for you.

Well-maintained course with classy clubhouse. The challenge is ideal for intermediate golfers, but beginners can enjoy the course play. For me, the range-finder on the cart was very helpful.