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Public Golf – Midwest

Surf Wisconsin – How to Ride the Turbulent Holes at Whistling Straits

HAVEN, WI – You can score anywhere from 68 to 78 at the topsy-turvy Straits Course at Whistling Straits. In benign conditions and softened by the season-long rains, 87 players finished under par yesterday. When the wind howls off Lake Michigan however, the course is fearsome. In 2004 Vijay Singh won the PGA Championship with the highest closing round in...

Dye-abolical but Fair, Players Praise the Fearsome Straits Course

HAVEN, WI – We may be in Wisconsin for the 92nd PGA Championship, but – Surprise! – the players are not having any whine with their cheese. In 2004, the players cried like Nancy Kerrigan over how tough Whistling Straits’s fearsome Straits Course played. Golf architect Pete Dye was castigated every bit as vehemently as he was when both Sawgrass...

Pete Dye Talks About Whistling Straits for the 2010 PGA Championship

He may be half 168 years old, but he’s still a lion in summer when it comes to golf architecture. The Dean of modern golf course architects, Pete Dye blends cunning design strategies that beguile pros with artistic flair that bewitches amateurs. His popularity across the globe is unquenchable, despite his reputation for building courses that play hard and look...

Pete Dye Interview up at Cybergolf, PGA Championship Coverage on Deck

Cybergolf has just posted my Pete Dye interview. One week from this moment I’ll be winging west reading James Michener’s Chesapeake, (in prep for the Potomac Cup), while waiting for “wheels down” and the hour drive to the bucolic splendor of Sheboygan, Wisconsin and the PGA Championship. Thank goodness the week won’t be as chock-a-bloc...

Book Review: Chris Clouser’s “A Month of Saturdays” on Indiana Public Golf

People might not think of Indiana as a place to jet off for a golf vacation, but golf writer Chris Clouser is doing his best to change that. Best known as the biogropher of pre-eminent golf architect Perry Maxwell, Clouser’s second book, “A Month of Saturdays” is a helpful guide to the best of public golf in the state of Indiana. The book is a...

The Fort G.C. – Indianapolis, IN

THE FORT GOLF CLUB 6002 N. Post Rd. Indianapolis, IN 317.543.9597 www.thefortgolfcourse.com Cost: $58, $42 twilight (military $44/$32 – nice touch!) Architect: original design unknown, nine holes in 1970 attributed to William Diddel, 1994 reno/redesign by Pete Dye with assistance from associate Tim Liddy Par – 72 Design – Five stars Natural Setting...