Osgood Golf Course
Fargo, Cass County, North Dakota · Fargo Metro golf market
- Access
- public
- Holes
- 9
- Architect(s)
- Richard M. Phelps
- Gated
- No
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Osgood Golf Course is a public, par-33, 9-hole layout on Fargo's south side, designed by architect Richard M. Phelps and opened in 2005 as the newest of the city's five Fargo Park District-owned golf courses. What distinguishes it from Fargo's other municipal courses for a golf-oriented homebuyer is not the course itself -- ordinary public pay-to-play golf with no membership tier -- but the neighborhood built around it. Developer Kevin Christianson, working through Property Resources Group, began transforming a 590-acre tract of vacant land bounded by the Sheyenne River and the Fargo/West Fargo boundary into a planned community of roughly 6,000 residents in 2004, with the new golf course as both the development's namesake and its organizing centerpiece; the first homeowner moved in that April.
The golf-residential tie here is genuine rather than incidental. The clubhouse was designed to echo an early-1900s train depot, matching the neighborhood's historic architectural theme, and the golf course's own recorded homeowners association -- the Osgood First Addition HOA, which governs numerous re-plats across Osgood 1st through 3rd, the Osgood Villas phases, South Beach Townhomes, and Villas by the Greens -- carries a specific covenant requiring transparent fencing on any lot adjacent to the course so as not to block sightlines to the fairways. A golf-branded residential pocket, marketed as Villas by the Greens, sits directly along the course on Osgood's west side. By 2010 the neighborhood had grown to nearly 5,000 residents and close to 2,000 housing units, and it remains one of south Fargo's largest and most active residential growth areas.
Golf & Course
Osgood is a par-33, 9-hole course (2,760 yards from the longest tees) designed by Richard M. Phelps and opened in 2005, with rolling terrain, native grasses, and rough-faced bunkers offset by wide, accessible fairways and greens, plus a driving range, a learning facility, and a three-hole practice course. It is Fargo's newest municipal course and, per recent Fargo Park District reporting, its most heavily played of the city's five, with roughly 38,500 rounds in the most recent season reported.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Golf at Osgood is straightforward public play -- green fees and Fargo Park District season passes (individually or via the city's 5-for-1 all-course pass), the same structure as any of Fargo's other municipal courses. There is no membership program, no waitlist, and no evidence found that purchasing a home in the Osgood neighborhood, including in the golf-adjacent Villas by the Greens pocket, includes, requires, or reserves any golf access or discount beyond what is available to any Fargo resident or visitor.
Living in Osgood Golf Course
The Osgood neighborhood is a 590-acre, developer-planned community (Kevin Christianson/Property Resources Group, beginning 2004) built and explicitly marketed around the golf course, with an early-1900s historic architectural theme carried through most of its housing stock. The neighborhood's homeowners association, Osgood First Addition HOA, governs a large set of re-plats and sub-phases -- including Osgood 1st/2nd/3rd, the Osgood Villas phases, South Beach Townhomes, and the golf-adjacent Villas by the Greens -- under one recorded Declaration of Restrictive Covenants that specifically protects golf-course view corridors on adjacent lots. Osgood is now one of south Fargo's largest neighborhoods, with roughly 4,925 residents and 1,935 housing units reported as of 2010.
Lifestyle & Amenities
Beyond golf, the neighborhood includes Osgood Park and Osgood School Park (basketball courts, playsets), Veterans Park, and Rocking Horse Park, plus a network of bike/walking paths connecting the neighborhood's interior to adjacent green space and the Sheyenne River corridor.
Location & Surrounding Area
Osgood sits in south Fargo, Cass County, bounded by the Sheyenne River to the east and the Fargo/West Fargo municipal boundary to the north -- placing it close to, but administratively within, Fargo rather than West Fargo or Horace.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm current Osgood First Addition HOA dues and the exact current text of the golf-view-corridor covenant directly with the HOA (osgoodfirst.com) -- this session relied on a search-result snippet, not a full document fetch.
- Confirm current green fees and season-pass pricing directly with the Fargo Park District (fargoparks.com).
- Confirm whether Villas by the Greens or any other Osgood sub-phase has its own distinct HOA/covenant terms beyond the shared Osgood First Addition declaration.
- Confirm current home/townhome price ranges directly with a local agent or MLS rather than relying on aggregator snapshots.
Notable
- The Osgood neighborhood was explicitly planned in 2004 as a roughly 6,000-person community organized around a new golf course, with the course itself becoming the neighborhood's namesake.
- The Osgood First Addition HOA's recorded covenants require transparent fencing on lots adjacent to the golf course specifically to preserve view corridors to the fairways.
- Osgood Golf Course was Fargo's most-played municipal course in the most recent season reported by the Fargo Park District (~38,500 rounds).
- The course's clubhouse was designed to resemble an early-1900s train depot, matching the neighborhood's historic architectural theme.
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