one of the finest courses in central minnesota

Welcome to blackberry ridge golf club

A Championship Course

Blackberry Ridge Golf Club, located in Sartell, Minnesota, is an 18-hole Championship Golf Course, Venue, and our Bar & Grill – Grill19 is located just minutes north of Saint Cloud, Minnesota.  Blackberry Ridge offers a serene wooded setting for your golfing and event experience.

Blackberry Ridge Golf Club is known as the finest & most beautiful golf course & venue in the St. Cloud Area and Central Minnesota.

Our History

Before Blackberry Ridge was an 18-Hole Golf Course in southwest Sartell, MN – It was part of the 560-Acre Parcel of Land on which the Fenlason Brothers, Donnie and Veryl Fenlason, had grown up on. They made a career out of dairy farming as next door neighbors, with the help of their wives, Linda and Kittie Fenlason. Their two homes still sit just off hole No. 11 and next to the 1050 red tile barn now used as the Golf Course’s Maintenance Building.

As the brothers got older, neither was able to do the work alone on the farm and they started talking about retirement. They were still too young to do nothing and they were sitting on all this property. A neighbor suggested a golf course. “The original idea,” says Kittie, “was that we were going to have a managed business and go to Florida and tell them to just send the checks.”

Golf Course Designer, Joel Goldstrand, began construction Spring of 2000. Blackberry Ridge Event Center & Clubhouse opened Fall of 2001 and the course opened shortly after.

Donnie and Veryl ran their business for a few years, then the unthinkable happened, Donnie passed away from cancer in 2009.

Ten months later, Veryl died of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. “As they say, God gives you strength when you need it. And he did,” says Linda. Linda and Kittie took on their titles as CEO and CFO in 2009.

In 2017, Kittie purchased Linda’s portion of Blackberry Ridge Golf Club. Now, Kittie Fenlason and Wes Fenlason share ownership of Blackberry Ridge G.C. Linda is enjoying retirement and still very much involved with the Blackberry Team.

Wes Fenlason & Kittie Fenlason

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