Whistling Straits Golf Resort USA Golfing Destinations
Whistling Straits Club Golf Resort
501 Highland Drive
Kohler, WI 53044
Whistling Straits offers two courses which have hosted the PGA Championship, U.S. Senior Open and the Palmer Cup. You must experience these two courses - both ranked among the best in the United States.
Open, rugged and windswept terrain defines the walking-only Straits Course along two miles of Lake Michigan shoreline. The Straits course at Whistling Straits was ranked # 3 in Golf Digest's ranking of America's 100 Greatest Public Golf Courses for 2011/2012.
Just inland from the great lake and interspersed by four meandering streams, the grassland-and-dunes aspect of the Irish is a deceivingly tranquil landscape.
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Both traditional and memorable, the Irish is full of unique challenges.
Whistling Straits is one of two golfing destinations associated with The American Club, a luxury resort located in nearby Kohler, Wisconsin, and owned by a subsidiary of the Kohler Company. The other course is Blackwolf Run. The Whistling Straits complex is located in the unincorporated Sheboygan County community of Haven in the Town of Mosel, north of the city of Sheboygan. Although the course is located in Haven, it officially has a Kohler postal address and is mentioned within promotional materials as being in Kohler.
The two courses at Whistling Straits were designed by Pete and Alice Dye.
Straits Course
The Straits Course has a length of 7,514 yards and a par of 72.
The Straits Course runs along a two-mile (3 km) stretch of Lake Michigan, the course features vast rolling greens, deep pot bunkers, grass-topped dunes and winds that sweep in off the lake. At 7,514 yards, it is the second longest course to host a major.[citation needed]
The seventeenth named "Pinched Nerve", the unofficial signature hole, is the most difficult par-3 on the course. At 223 yards, with towering sand dunes and the lake to the left leaves golfers with no option but to go straight for the green.
The course also features two miles (3 km) of shoreline on Lake Michigan, eight holes hugging the lake, a flock of Scottish Blackface sheep, elevation changes of approximately 80 feet (24 m) and three stone bridges at holes 10 and 18.
Irish Course
The Irish Course, is an inland grass-and-dune layout. It is a par-72 18 hole course that features 7,201 yards of golf from the longest tees. The course rating is 75.6 while the slope rating is 146. It was designed by Pete Dye, and opened in the year 2000.[3]
Having served as a PGA Championship host site, the Straits Course has more notoriety, but the Irish Course is rated more difficult to play as it is trouble-filled with forced carries, gnarly rough, ponds, streams and ravines, and waste bunkers — tremendous in size and number — which are minimally maintained to let the elements shape and reshape them.
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