The design lineage of Minnesota Valley is cloudy, but the club believes the Seth Raynor drafted plans for the course during one of his visits to Minneapolis in the early 1920s (it's doubtful he was involved in the actual construction of the course). But the design if full of Raynor and C.B. Macdonald ideas, and no matter who gets original credit, Minnesota Valley now fully looks and plays like a Raynor course following a 2018 renovation by Bill Bergin that enhanced the character of holes like Short, Redan, Raynor's Prize Dogleg and a Biarritz green at a par-4 rather than the usual par-3.