https://pinhighpress.com/tags/wisconsin/ Recent content in Wisconsin on Pin High Press Hugo en-us Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/whistling-straits-course-profile/ Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/whistling-straits-course-profile/ <p>There is a small category of golf courses in the world that have been built, in defiance of the land available to the architect, to look as if they were always there. Pebble Beach and Cypress Point have the advantage of land that was always going to be a golf course. Sand Hills found a dune field in Nebraska that nobody had thought to look at. Whistling Straits, on the western shoreline of Lake Michigan in the small Wisconsin town of Haven, did not find anything. It built it. The land Herb Kohler handed to Pete Dye in the mid-1990s was a flat former military airfield with a top dressing of sand and a long lakeshore frontage that, before Dye arrived, was producing nothing more interesting than the view. Dye spent four years turning it into a faux-links property that has, in the three decades since it opened, hosted three PGA Championships, a Senior US Open and the 2021 Ryder Cup. The course continues, in a way that few engineered properties manage, to look almost convincingly as if Dye did not build it.</p>