The State of Wisconsin
has a total of 10 golf courses that appear on the most current list of “America’s
100 Greatest Public Courses†produced by Golf Digest Magazine.
The list includes:
3.
Whistling Straits (Straits course)
9.
Erin Hills
15.
Blackwolf Run (River course)
18.
Sand Valley
27.
Mammoth Dunes
43.
Whistling Straits (Irish course)
44.
SentryWorld
57.
Blackwolf Run (Meadow Valleys course)
58.
The Golf Courses of Lawsonia (Links course)
69.
Troy Burne Golf Course
Whistling Straits hosted
the PGA Championship three times and will also host the 2020 Ryder Cup.
Erin Hills
was the site of the 2017 U.S. Open and will host the 2025 U.S. Women’s Open.
Blackwolf Run hosted the 1998 and 2012 U.S. Women’s Opens.
The tournaments have
brought attention to Wisconsin’s best golf courses and attracted golfers from
around the country to travel to Wisconsin in hopes of experiencing the famed
courses for themselves.
The newest Wisconsin
golf courses are Sand Valley, which opened in 2017, and Mammoth Dunes,
which opened in 2018; both are located at Sand Valley Golf Resort, developed near
Nekoosa by Mike Keiser, renowned for developing Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in
Oregon.
SentryWorld in Stevens
Point is famous for its “Flower Holeâ€. Petunias, snapdragons, marigolds,
geraniums and other annuals surround the par 3 16th hole and are treated as
lateral hazards.
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