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15 PGA Championship, Whistling Straits, Wis, By PGA Championship, Whistling Straits, Wis. The awesome 18th Hole at Whistling Straits By Mike Beckman and Chris DiMarco in the 86th and conjure up an image of the PGA Championship, August 15, I grand undertaking of creating a atching Vijay Singh had a flashback to seven years ago championship course to replicate being presented the at exactly the same site. Standing and rival the great links courses in WPGA Wannamaker on an 80-foot bluff overlooking Scotland and Ireland. How could a Trophy after the thrilling three- Lake Michigan, nine miles north former U.S. Army anti-aircraft fir- hole playoff with Justin Leonard of Kohler, Wis., I was trying to lis- ing range 10 miles north of Kohler ten to Steve Friedlander, Director be America's answer to Photo above by Art McCafferty of Golf for the Kohler Company, Ballybunyan? Teeing off the fol- FALL 2 0 0 4 • M I C H I G A N G O L F E R M A G A Z I N E 15 lowing year at the grand opening Blackwolf Run in 1998, won by Se with Art McCafferty of the Ri Pak in a playoff. The tourna- For the two weeks prior to Michigan Golfer, our questions ment set LPGA records in atten- the championship players were were answered with an awesome, dance that still stand. complaining about the length of ‘Wow!’ Each hole was a new treat 7,600 yards and the fact that they and adventure. No carts. Irish cad- Upon completion of had to play the 1,400 bunkers as dies. No trees. Irish black sheep Whistling Straits, Kohler set out to hazards got the attention of Dye. with bells on, and 1,400 bunkers. get a men's major. The course "This course is played every day It was, and still is one of the most landed the 1999 U.S. Club Pro by 200 golfers like you and I. The challenging and beautiful courses I Championship and the word was course is popcorn," he said with a have ever played. And that list rapidly spreading as to the magnif- smile. "Some people choke on includes Treetops, The Bear, icence and toughness of this gem. popcorn." The PGA did give in to Oakland Hills, Pebble Beach, and Just this year the USGA the players and shortened the run many of the resort facilities in announced the U.S. Men's Senior by about 150 yards. The conditions Arizona. Open will be held at Whistling were perfect, no wind and the Straits in 2007. Initial talk is scores were low. Saturday and Pete Dye and Herbert V. already under way for another Sunday however, the officials went Kohler, Jr. President, CEO, and PGA, a U.S. Open and possibly a back on the tees and Sunday the Chairman of the Board of the Ryder Cup. wind finally blew off the lake. The "This course is played every day by 200 golfers like you and I. The course is pop- corn. Some people choke on popcorn." -- Pete Dye Kohler Company have teamed up course finally had its revenge. A to develop one of the finest golf With so many years with- final-round 76 got Singh into the destinations in the world. Right out a men's major (1933 PGA playoff. What a great finish to a next to the Straits course is the Championship won by Gene great week. This wrapped up the Irish Course, inland and west of Sarazen at Bluemound Country 2004 Grand Slam. As Terry Moore the PGA venue and a very nice Club in Milwaukee), the many golf of Michigan Golfer said, "The hunk of land in its own right. And fans in Wisconsin were ready. Masters and three British Opens,” of course the two Blackwolf Run Although the PGA hasn't released with an exclamation point. Herb Courses, the River Course and the exact figures the seven-day event Kohler, Pete Dye, the PGA, the Meadow Valleys Course located in averaged 40,000-45,000 each day players, the thousands of staff and Kohler. One of the big reasons the with Saturday and Sunday getting volunteers, and the fans made this PGA was played on such a young closer to 50,000. The flow of this a memorable event that will be course was the great success of the many people in an area quite rural talked about in Wisconsin for years Women's U.S. Open held at was a phenomenal success. to come. MG 16 FALL 2 0 0 4 • M I C H I G A N G O L F E R M A G A Z I N E.
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