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After decades of a drought in big-time professional golf,
Wisconsin is becoming a focal point for major events.
W
hen Gene Sarazen
walked off the 14th
green of Blue Mound
Golf and Country
Club on Aug. 13, 1933, after dispatching
Willie Goggin 5-and-4 at the PGA
Championship, no one thought it
would be seven decades before Wisconsin
would witness another major
golf tournament within its borders.
Neighboring Minnesota had hosted
fi ve majors during Wisconsin's
drought, while Illinois has an impressive
major tournament history, with 13
U.S. Opens and six PGA Championships.
But before 2004, Wisconsin had
hosted just one major tournament,
Sarazen's 1933 PGA victory. Couple
that with Wisconsin's longtime PGA
Tour stop (best remembered as the
Greater Milwaukee Open) dying a slow
and painful death, and the state of golf
in the late '90s and early '00s was in undeniable
decline.
Although resurrecting golf in Wisconsin
seemed a hopeless task, local
captain of industry Herb Kohler and
course architect Pete Dye were warming
up in the bullpen.
Together this unlikely tandem
formed one of the golf industry's most
ambitious power pairings. Their fi rst
effort produced the rustic 36-hole
Blackwolf Run (River and Meadow
Valley courses), which is just down the
street from Kohler Co. headquarters in
Kohler.
Named " America's Best New Course "
by Golf Digest in 1988, Blackwolf Run
hosted three years of the Anderson
Consulting World Golf Championships
(1995-97) and the Women's U.S.
Opens in 1998 and 2012.
The immediate successes of the
Blackwolf courses emboldened the
Kohler-Dye team. Their next project
was the hugely ambitious Whistling
Straits and Irish Course project, built
on the site of a former U.S. Army depot
on the shores of Lake Michigan, just
north of Sheboygan.
The Straits Course is the signature
course of the Kohler empire and perhaps
the most iconic course in the
Midwest.
It is generally considered
Dye's greatest masterpiece.
The course features massive natural
dune bunkers, four meandering
By Dan Manoyan
streams and fescue fairways.
Styled
after Irish links courses, it keeps that
theme with an Irish cottage clubhouse,
three stone bridges and a gaggle of
Scottish Blackface sheep, which are free
to roam the course's hills.
The PGA of America certainly noticed
Whistling Straits, as just six years
after the course opened in 1998, it
played host to the 2004 PGA. Not only
did that tournament end the 71-year
major-less drought of the state, it unlocked
the door to the state's unlimited
potential.
In 2007, Whistling Straits
hosted the U.S. Senior Open, and in
2010 it hosted the PGA again.
The recently completed 2015 PGA
Championship was the third at Whistling
Straits, and in 2020 the Ryder Cup
will be contested there.
Noting the success of the PGA
at Whistling Straits, the USGA also
sought to tap into the deep well of
great courses in Wisconsin. Worldclass
venues such as The Bull (Sheboygan),
University Ridge (Madison),
Trappers Turn (Wisconsin Dells), The
Bog (Saukville) and Erin Hills (Hartford)
have sprung up across the state.
1. Blackwolf Run
855-444-2838
americanclubresort.com/golf/blackwolf-run
2. Whistling Straits
855-444-2838
americanclubresort.com/golf/whistling-straits
3. Erin Hills
866-772-4769
erinhills.com
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4. Sand Valley
847-421-4537
sandvalleygolfresort.com
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Wisconsin Dells
Madison
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www.mngolf.org
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Sheboygan
Saukville
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