The PGA Championship has concluded at Whistling
Straits in Haven, WI (my home state). This is hardest course I've ever played.
Yes, even more challenging then Pebble Beach! Today the toughness showed
as the Vijay Singh carded the highest round (76) to win a major since 1955. -A.G.
"The
fans were incredible. I thought they were very fair. I had fans from the very
first day. Very enthusiastic crowd out there, and they were cheering for
everybody. It's nice to have fans like that when you play golf tournaments. They
really appreciate good golfing." - Vijay Singh on the Wisconsin fans
''I would
hate to see what the USGA would do with this golf course" - Tiger Woods
on having a US Open here "It's a very, very difficult golf
course. I'd hate to see the USGA here and have rough out here about six or seven
inches because it would be almost unplayable." - Runner-up Chris DiMarco
"I’ll
tell you what, If I was an 18-handicapper, I wouldn’t want to play here." -
Tiger Woods
Whistling Straits—an extraordinary combination
of legendary design by Pete Dye and visionary inspiration of Herbert V. Kohler,
Jr. Pete Dye has changed the look of the earth before. From Kohler to Casa de
Campo, he has reshaped the planet with his particular landscaping genius. But
even the celebrated Dye was awestruck by the rugged land that Herb Kohler
presented to him for Whistling Straits. Beginning with a 560-acre parcel of flat
land, Dye sculpted a bit of Ireland and a touch of Scotland out of the Wisconsin
coastline. If you ask Pete Dye, he’ll tell you that building Whistling Straits
was a "once in a lifetime thing"—an impressive claim for one considered the
foremost golf course designer of our time.
Whistling Straits, which opened in 1998, offers two courses of dynamic contrast.
Open, rugged and windswept terrain defines the
Straits Course sculpted along two miles of Lake Michigan shoreline. Just
inland, interspersed by four meandering streams, the grassland-and-dunes aspect
of the
Irish Course is a deceivingly tranquil landscape. In 1999, its first year of
eligibility, the Straits Course was ranked 67th on Golf Magazine’s
prestigious list of the "Top 100 Courses in the World". The same magazine
placed Straits 35th among the "Top 100 Courses in the U.S." (Sept. 1999).
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Whistling Straits—an extraordinary combination
of legendary design by Pete Dye and visionary inspiration of Herbert V. Kohler,
Jr. Pete Dye has changed the look of the earth before. From Kohler to Casa de
Campo, he has reshaped the planet with his particular landscaping genius. But
even the celebrated Dye was awestruck by the rugged land that Herb Kohler
presented to him for Whistling Straits. Beginning with a 560-acre parcel of flat
land, Dye sculpted a bit of Ireland and a touch of Scotland out of the Wisconsin
coastline. If you ask Pete Dye, he’ll tell you that building Whistling Straits
was a "once in a lifetime thing"—an impressive claim for one considered the
foremost golf course designer of our time. 
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