Whistling Straits – One Awesome Course
Hole 7 - Shipwreck - 214 yard Par 3
This year’s PGA Championship is a must watch if for nothing other than to check out the Whistling Straits course. Nick Faldo called it ‘cool’, I call it ‘way cool’. I’m including a couple of shots from the course website to wet your whistle. Click on the first one and visit the Whistling Straits course site. There you’ll find descriptions of all the holes and even flyovers. We are going to see some demanding recovery shots to say the least. On this course if it isn’t fairway, it’s tall grass or sand. If you counted everything that looks like a sandtrap, then there must be a thousand. To top it off the course is set on the dunes/cliffs of Lake Michegan. If the greens are right, this course is as good as any played this year and that includes Augusta, Pebble Beach and St. Andrews – not bad company to be in.
Hole 9 - Down and Dirty - Par 4, 415 yards
Hole 16 - Endless Bite - Par 5, 535 yards
Hole 17 - Pinched Nerve - Par 3, 223 yards
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Comments
I actually don’t like this course at all. It reminds me of how Vegas tries to recreate the various cities of the world, but it’s all a facade. Herb Kohler told Pete Dye to “make it look like Ballybunion”. Except it plays just like every other American course.
Personally, I like traditional links that play like links. Or, American parkland style courses on their own. Taking the latter and dressing it up in the makeup of the former disrespects both types of courses.
Plus, Kohler is a rich, fat cat with a huge ego.
My grade for Whistling Straits: C+
I suppose all lot of the guys who own the major golf resorts have huge egos and they’re fat cats by definition. I too would have liked to see Whistling Straits play more like a real links course. I wonder how much different it would have been if there hadn’t been so much rain in the preceding weeks?
Man, sounds awesome! Hope to get to play there someday. Thanks for stopping by the GolfDashBlog 
Doug
I grew up down the lake from this site and played it earlier this summer after not being back in Wisconsin for 25 years. This course is a WOW and we were lucky to play during a day that reminded us of England. The wind was whistling off the lake, big rolling grey waves, dark threatening rolling clouds and a freighter steaming north 4 or 5 miles out on the water. We caught ourselves taking pictures more than playing golf. It is spectacular!!!