Golf in New England

New England is a Hettinger County community in southwestern North Dakota near the South Dakota border, reflecting the homesick naming tradition of Dakota Territory settlers who gave communities the names of their eastern or midwestern origins. Hettinger County's cattle ranching economy and the surrounding shortgrass prairie create the character of the remote southwestern plains, where self-sufficiency and community mutual support are essential given the distances between urban centers and the cyclical nature of the agricultural economy. The surrounding prairie landscape and the vast sky that defines life on the northern Great Plains create the distinctive context for golf in North Dakota, where natural scale and the open horizon give outdoor recreation a character unlike the compressed courses of more densely populated states.