Whistling Straits

Kohler, Wisconsin 7,514 Yards / Par 72

Whistling Straits plays host to the 86th PGA Championship in August 2004.

The course was designed by Pete Dye and replicates the ancient seaside links courses the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Nestled along a two-mile 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 longest course to host a major.

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 of shoreline on Lake Michigan, eight holes hugging the lake, a flock of Scottish Blackface sheep, elevation changes of approximately 80 feet and three stone bridges at holes 9, 10 and 18.

Links: The PGA [1]