Advertorial AREA GOLF: The golf life of Savannah Stone and Crosswoods Crosswoods Golf Course in Crosslake is the quintessential family affair. "When we built the newest nine holes I actually got to be a part of that," Savannah said. "I was out there digging trenches. When we go out and play now I can say, "yep, I actually helped The proof is in Savannah (Stone) Smith, who, like the property, build this green." has grown into a golf powerhouse. What started as mini-golf and Barbies transformed into a 27- hole golf complex, college golf excellence and golf career. Savannah went on to a successful college golf career at Concordia St. Paul. Every summer, however, she returned to Crosswoods. The lure of the family operation even made picking a career difficult. "My sister and I were pretty much there every day," Savannah said. "A lot of the members that we have today were original members so they literally watched us grow up. We would bring from Concordia and my plan was to go right into grad school all of our toys there and we would be sitting out on the front lawn playing with Barbies and all of our stuffed animals." "I graduated with a degree in psychology and kinesiology and I wanted to go into clinical psychology and I wanted to be a sports psychologist," Savannah said. "A month before I graduated I had this quarter-life crisis if you can call it that and I wasn't sure what I wanted to do." At 10 Savannah was washing and parking golf carts. At 12 she was working at Whistling Wolf Mini-golf which was started by her grandparents Jack and Dee in 1967. She transitioned back to Crosswoods in high school. Stone returned to Crosswoods to weigh her options. At the end of the season, she was enrolled in the PGA program and landed an internship at Hazeltine National in Chaska. "My cousins and I all went through that whole phase of working with the family," Savannah said. Stone returned to Crosswoods where she teaches golf, coaches the Pequot Lakes High School girls team and helps run the golf The golf business also went through the growing phases. When Savannah was 5 her father Mike started work on the first operations with her parents. regulation nine holes. The back nine, or Sunset, was built when In 2018, Savannah married her college sweetheart Josh Smith Savannah was around 8. with a large contingent of Crosswoods members in attendance. A short par 3 course was added and then in 2015 the third nine "They are definitely our second family," Savannah said. was constructed. CROSS]WOODS GOLF COURSE Advertorial AREA GOLF: The golf life of Savannah Stone and Crosswoods Crosswoods Golf Course in Crosslake is the quintessential family affair. "When we built the newest nine holes I actually got to be a part of that," Savannah said. "I was out there digging trenches. When we go out and play now I can say, "yep, I actually helped The proof is in Savannah (Stone) Smith, who, like the property, build this green." has grown into a golf powerhouse. What started as mini-golf and Barbies transformed into a 27- hole golf complex, college golf excellence and golf career. Savannah went on to a successful college golf career at Concordia St. Paul. Every summer, however, she returned to Crosswoods. The lure of the family operation even made picking a career difficult. "My sister and I were pretty much there every day," Savannah said. "A lot of the members that we have today were original members so they literally watched us grow up. We would bring from Concordia and my plan was to go right into grad school all of our toys there and we would be sitting out on the front lawn playing with Barbies and all of our stuffed animals." "I graduated with a degree in psychology and kinesiology and I wanted to go into clinical psychology and I wanted to be a sports psychologist," Savannah said. "A month before I graduated I had this quarter-life crisis if you can call it that and I wasn't sure what I wanted to do." At 10 Savannah was washing and parking golf carts. At 12 she was working at Whistling Wolf Mini-golf which was started by her grandparents Jack and Dee in 1967. She transitioned back to Crosswoods in high school. Stone returned to Crosswoods to weigh her options. At the end of the season, she was enrolled in the PGA program and landed an internship at Hazeltine National in Chaska. "My cousins and I all went through that whole phase of working with the family," Savannah said. Stone returned to Crosswoods where she teaches golf, coaches the Pequot Lakes High School girls team and helps run the golf The golf business also went through the growing phases. When Savannah was 5 her father Mike started work on the first operations with her parents. regulation nine holes. The back nine, or Sunset, was built when In 2018, Savannah married her college sweetheart Josh Smith Savannah was around 8. with a large contingent of Crosswoods members in attendance. A short par 3 course was added and then in 2015 the third nine "They are definitely our second family," Savannah said. was constructed. CROSS]WOODS GOLF COURSE