Golf in Williston

Williston is the Williams County seat in northwestern North Dakota, the epicenter of the Bakken oil formation's development and the community most dramatically transformed by the shale oil revolution. Oil production from beneath Williams County's prairie made Williston one of the fastest-growing communities in the United States during the boom years, and the city has navigated both the extraordinary growth pressures of the boom and the contraction that followed oil price declines. The far northwestern position near the Montana border creates a remote city that has become unexpectedly significant in American energy production. 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.