In the 1920s, my grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. H. P. Linner built a summer home roughly 15 miles west of Minneapolis.  Quite a distance in those days.  They lived next to Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mayhew.  Mayhew, on a trip to Scotland in the mid 1930’s saw the game played out in the Scottish countryside.  Upon return, in 1938, together they designed and built eighteen holes of Mountain Golf on their Red Cedar Point on Lake Minnewashta.

The first champion was my father Dr. Paul W. Linner. He was 16 at the time. He is the one in the upper right from this 1950 photo at the lake.  He is with his brother, sisters and mom and dad.

In 1962, my parents Paul and Carolyn Linner built a cabin 130 miles north on Rocky Point on Sylvan Lake. It was rough and wild. Over the years, we cleared and seeded the land.

In 1985, we designed and built the second Mountain Golf course. Each year we hold tournaments on Memorial Day, July 4 and Labor Day. In the mid-eighties we started a Fathers Weekend where we brought the kids to the cabin and gave the mom’s the weekend off.  The weekend included a Mountain Golf dad’s tournament.

In 2002, Whitney and Nancy Peyton built a home at the Yellowstone Club in Big Sky, Montana. In 2020 Hannry One, LLC was formed to pursue the expansion of Mountain Golf. In 2022, Yellowstone Club agreed to add Mountain Golf to their outdoor activities.

Designed in the fall of 2022.  Opened in the summer of 2023.