Just as Minneapolis Golf Examiner Kyle Anway posted a review of the same course, I got a call last week to join a group playing Sawmill Golf Club in Stillwater.
It’s been three years since I last played Sawmill and it does seem like a bargain at $18 (weekday walking rate). They are also currently giving out $10 off coupons for their sister Loggers Trail course if you play again by the end of the month.
Parts of the course were already mid-summer lush, but the greens were extremely firm and wouldn’t hold anything (we found out afterwards that they had just been rolled).
Sawmill is not a long course – 5499 yards from the whites with a par of 70 – but there are some nice memorable holes on both nines. The all-carry par three fifth (above) and the scenic par three thirteenth are two of my favorites.