MGA Announces Adaptive Open Championship

EDINA, Minn. (February 21, 2025) - The Minnesota Golf Association (MGA) in collaboration with the City of Edina and the Braemar Golf Course, is pleased to announce the inaugural Minnesota Adaptive Open, Sept. 26-28, 2025, at Braemar GC in Edina, Minn.

“Given Braemar Golf Course's longstanding support of adaptive golf programming through its 40-year partnership with the Sister Kenny Institute, when the Minnesota Golf Association requested the City of Edina and Braemar being their partner in hosting the first-ever Minnesota Adaptive Open this coming fall, we embraced the invitation with grand enthusiasm,” said James Hovland, Mayor of Edina.

Braemar Golf Course opened in 1964 and has been ranked among the top 75 public golf courses in the U.S. The course underwent an extensive redesign by noted golf course architect Richard Mandell and reopened in 2019. The Minnesota Adaptive Open will be contested over 36 holes of stroke play on Braemar's championship 18-hole golf course (tees range from 4,234 to 6,418 yards, par 72). It is open to males and females, professionals and amateurs, with intellectual, neurological, sensory or physical impairments, who have a WR4GD Pass as well as an authorized World Handicap System Handicap Index®. The field will consist of 45 players. Further eligibility requirements, field composition and additional competitive format details of the Minnesota Adaptive Open can be found here, https://www.golfgenius.com/pages/5234570. Registration begins March 3.

“Braemar Golf Course and the City of Edina are excited to partner with the MGA to host these incredible athletes,” says Joe Abood, general manager, Braemar GC, adding, “The goal is to make the Minnesota Adaptive Open one of the premier championships of its kind in the U.S.”
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