Awards

• Golf Digest (1997) Best New Public Upscale Golf Course in North America

• ZAGAT Survey (1997) One of America's Top Hotels - rated "Excellent

• Fairways Magazine Top 175 ‘Women Friendly' Golf Facilities

• Minnesota Monthly Magazine (February 1997) Readers "Best' Poll. Madden's is #1 favorite place to play golf in Minnesota

• Seed Research Magazine (January 1998) Course of the Year

• Minneapolis StarTribune (April, 1999) #1 Course in Minnesota

• Lake Country Echo (September 1999) The Classic at Madden's was named ‘Number One Golf Course in the Lake Country' by Minnesota golf writers Charley Walters, Gregg Wong (St. Paul Pioneer Press), Jeremy Milsop (Brainerd Dispatch), and Don Peddie (Lake Country Echo)

• Golf & Travel Magazine (November 2000)

• The Classic at Madden's rated 27th in Golf & Travel Magazine's ‘America's Best 40 Resort Courses

• PGA Golf Professional Christopher Foley (July 2001) Rated by Golf Digest Magazine as ‘Number Three of Top Forty Golf Instructors in the United States'

• Minnesota Golf Course Owners Association Course of the Year (The Classic, 2001)

• Minnesota Monthly Magazine (March 2002) Minnesota's Favorite ‘Swanky Course' (The Classic)

• Number Two Best Public Course in Minnesota, Golf Week (March, 2002)

• ESPN (June 3, 2002) Featured The Classic on the premier of Jack Wagner's Golf Show "Off Course" with guest Governor Jesse Ventura

• ‘2002 PGA Teacher of the Year, Minnesota Section' (Chris Foley)

• Minnesota Meetings & Events Magazine ‘Best Golf Resort & Lodge or Lakefront Property' (2003)

• Number One Public Golf Course in MN Golf Week Magazine (March 2003)

• 33rd Best Public Golf Course in America by Golf Digest (April 2003)

• MN Meetings & Events Magazine, Best Golf Resort in Minnesota (2002-2005)

• Golf Digest 100 Greatest Public Courses (2005/06)

• 50th Best Public Golf Course in America, Golf Digest, April 2005

• Zagat Award, America's Top Golf Courses, 2006-07

• 5 Star Rating, Golf Digest Magazine, May 2006 (one of only 17 courses in the US)

• Golfweek's Best, The Classic at Madden's, #5 in Minnesota (March 2007)

• 5 Star Rating, Golf Digest "Best Places to Play Guide, August, 2008

• Meetings Mid-America Magazine ‘Best of' Award, 2006, 2008

• Best Resort" Minnesota Meetings & Events Magazine (2008, 2010)