Spiderbite:
The world knows that NY (Westchester, Long Island, upper New Jersey) has a lot of great golf courses. They don't know that Minneapolis and Saint Paul do too.
Philadelphia has great golf, with much of it from Flynn. Massachusetts is long on Ross. I was not commenting on the depth of work from these architects, and that's why the point is valid. Thompson did one course, ditto Tillinghast, etc...
By sheer size - you are comparing an area of more than 25 Million people to one with 2.5 Million - New York probably wins any such matchup. But can you easily drive from one to the other to play 36 in a day? Some of the courses you mention would be hard to get to from each other, so it is up for interpretation.
Imagine you want to sample different architecture styles. Were you aware it could be done so easily in the Twin Cities?