Since opening in July of 1998, Whistling Straits has dazzled players and fans.
Since opening in July of 1998, Whistling Straits has dazzled players and fans with its innovative architecture and sweeping Great Lakes views.
The course has hosted three PGA Championships — 2004 won by Vijay Singh, 2010 won by Martin Kaymer and 2015 won by Jason Day — and the 2021 Ryder Cup.
Not to be outdone by the PGA of America, the USGA has had a presence at the stunning Pete Dye-designed Straits track that sits perched on Lake Michigan as well, hosting the 2007 U.S. Senior Open. That year, Brad Bryant edged Ben Crenshaw to take the title.
The USGA announced on Tuesday that it intends to get a stronger foothold at the links course, with three more championships at the site through 2037.
The prestigious U.S. Amateur will find its way to Sheboygan, Wisconsin, in 2028, followed by the U.S. Junior Amateur in 2033 and the U.S. Girls’ Junior in 2037.
“The USGA is excited to reignite our commitment with Kohler, and look forward to a long and fulfilling relationship,” said Mark Hill, USGA managing director, Championships. “Whistling Straits is renowned for its performance on an international stage, and we know it will challenge and thoroughly impress the world’s best amateur players.”
On Golfweek’s Best list of the best 100 courses you can play, the Straits course sits in a tie for fourth in 2024 with Bandon Dunes’ Old Macdonald. The other courses in the top five are Pebble Beach, Pacific Dunes, and Pinehurst No. 2, marking very exclusive company.
And while the Senior Open was the only major USGA event on Whistling Straits’ resume, its sister course Blackwolf Run hosted the 1998 and 2012 U.S. Women’s Opens.
“We are pleased to partner with the USGA to bring these prestigious golf championships to Whistling Straits, building on our legacy of hosting memorable and record-breaking events,” said Dirk Willis, vice president – Golf, Landscape & Retail. “Amateur golf is the heart of the game, while junior golf helps fuel the next generation of passionate players, and it’s a great honor to host these elite men and women over the next 10 years. We look forward to showcasing their incredible talent in front of our proud Wisconsin golf fans and providing a world-class golf experiences for all involved.”
The addition of the major events follows in the vision of Herb Kohler Jr., who longed to make the course a national showpiece.
“That was our ambition right from the outset,” Kohler told Golfweek in a 2019 interview. He died in 2022. “We wanted tournaments, and we didn’t want the weekly tournaments, so the only possible thing was majors.”
As he had with the creation of Blackwolf Run, Kohler turned to architect Dye, whose quirkiness initially drew Kohler’s attention.
“This one particular chap, he was an odd duck, but he had two courses in particular that were of interest,” Kohler said. “One that had just been open to the public, it was the TPC at Sawgrass, the home course for the PGA Tour. And at least 20 different pros who had a chance to play it were extraordinarily upset, and they were making their feelings known to the local press. … It sort of fascinated me. What I liked about it was, he had this desire to get into the psyche of a pro and really befuddle him.”
Tim Liddy says the renovation of all 18 green complexes is like an archaeological dig.
Tim Liddy says the renovation of all 18 green complexes at the Pete Dye Stadium Course at PGA West is like an archaeological dig. In this case, Liddy and the agronomy team at PGA West are looking for the original greens on the golf course from 1986.
“The thing that I have struggled with that we got through with the owner is do you want a 1986 Pete or do you want a 2020 Pete,” said Liddy, who worked closely with the famed architect Dye for many years and is helping to return the course to its original concept of greens and bunkering. “They said we want a 1986 Pete. So that tells me, okay, that’s not what he would have done today, but it’s what we did in 1986.”
The renovation of all 18 greens as well as the practice putting area at the Stadium Course, the host course of the PGA Tour’s The American Express tournament each January, means the course will be closed throughout the summer.
Plans are to renovate more than 12 acres of turf and bunkers on the course in time for the course to reopen after a normal overseed in the fall, meaning the course will be ready for The American Express.
This summer is the completion of a three-year renovation project at the Stadium Course that saw work on fairways and the removal of trees that had grown drastically in the nearly 40 years since the golf course opened as one of the most talked about and controversial courses in the country.
Dye’s extensive use of water, railroad ties, spectator mounding and a variety of bunkers from pot bunkers to moats caused criticism from players in the 1986 American Express, then called the Bob Hope Classic. But much of what Dye designed into the La Quinta course is now standard at many PGA Tour courses and even resort courses.
“He was ahead of his time,” Liddy said. “My impression was he saw the golf ball was getting longer and the driver was getting bigger and the players were getting more talented, more athletic. I think he foresaw all of that.”
The PGA Tour left the Stadium Course after that one playing in 1986, but the course returned to the tournament in 2016 as host course.
In the 38 years since the players grumbled in 1986, the courses have naturally changed. Liddy, director of agronomy Brian Sullivan, resort courses superintendent Denver Hart and a construction team from LeBar Golf Renovations want to take the course back to when it opened.
Shaving the course
Tim Liddy, a golf architect who worked with Pete Dye, is helping to restore Dye’s Stadium Course at PGA West to its original 1986 conditions. (Photo: Jay Calderon/The Desert Sun)
A large part of the project involves shaving at least four inches of turf off of the greens, material that simply builds up through the years, to find the original green surfaces. Then the team searches for the metal liners that defined the original edges of the greens, allowing the team to expand the current greens to 1986 sizes. In some cases, that’s as much as a 20-percent increase in size, meaning more room for pin placements.
“The green surfaces will be 143,000 square feet,” Hart said. “The putting green alone will be 23,000 square feet.”
Liddy said the team will do very little reshaping of the surfaces, leaving slopes and valleys the way they were first meant to be.
“It has surprised me the most that once we take off that four inches, they are really close (to original),” Liddy said of the greens. “We’ve not really changed any of them.”
Other changes will be seen throughout the course. Liddy said the entire front of the 10th green had disappeared, perhaps an attempt by some past owner to cut down on maintenance costs.
Part of the extreme bunker and green at the 16th hole of the Stadium Course is being rebuilt at PGA West in La Quinta, Calif., May 23, 2024. (Photo: Jay Calderon/Desert Sun)
Ben Dobbs, executive director at PGA West, said many greens will be taken as close as possible to water hazards and railroad ties, such as to the left of the demanding par-3 13th.
“Seventeen (the famed island green par-3) is going to get bigger. We are going a lot bigger,” Dobbs said. “It’s pretty cool, because when we took the four to five inches of organic material off the top, what it did, and you can see it, is it brought the rocks back into play. Before, that green sat up on top and the rocks were around but had fallen off to the side. So now you kind of have this teeth and this jagged look back.”
For most of the bunkering around the greens, Liddy said the bunker surfaces will be flat, a concept Dye liked, rather than the sloping bunkers that have evolved on the course over four decades.
“What I mean when I say flat, it’s not flat, but the sand doesn’t flash up,” Liddy said. “As unnatural as it looks, it’s following mother nature. You’d have water, you would have a layer of a beach, then a layer of ground. So you have layers he is developing to give you that beautiful look.”
Sullivan said he believes the tifeagle Bermuda grass that will be planted on the greens and the TifTuf Bermuda grass for planted areas around the greens – from Evergreen Turf in Arizona – will complete the renovation.
“We think we have the better construction group and the better material,” Sullivan said.
The Stadium Course is the sixth of the nine PGA West courses to undergo renovation of greens in recent years, and it means that all three courses used in The American Express have put in renovated greens in the last few years. La Quinta Country Club completed a green renovation last summer, and the Nicklaus Tournament Course at PGA West was done three years ago.
The PGA Tour is constantly monitoring the work on tour courses like the Stadium Course, said Pat McCabe, executive director of The American Express.
“You look at this week they are playing in Colonial (in Fort Worth, Texas), and I don’t know what the extent of that project was, but it was pretty massive. They shut it down right after the tournament (in 2023). I don’t think (the Stadium Course) is quite to the level of restoration that Gil Hanse and his team did at Colonial. But they were ready for this year’s tournament.
“Anytime you are ripping up dirt, you are cognizant that there is a risk,” McCabe added. “But my understanding is PGA West has the best group in town in LeBar to help them. Brian Sullivan, being the superintendent that he is and his knowledge of what needs to be done, leading the charge is fantastic. It shows the commitment of ownership.”
Jerry Pate Design will upgrade the playing surfaces and bunkers at a massive Dominican Republic resort.
Casa de Campo, the sprawling destination in the Dominican Republic with three resort golf courses, has announced plans to restore its Pete Dye-designed Teeth of the Dog layout starting in January of 2025.
Teeth of the Dog – named for the small, sharp rocks along the shore – is widely considered one of the best courses in the Caribbean. Opened in 1971, the layout features seven dramatic holes that play tight enough to the ocean to get a player’s socks wet. The course not only was built by the legendary Dye, he lived there with his wife, Alice, for years, and some of his ashes were spread on No. 8 of Teeth of the Dog after he died in 2020.
The restoration will be done by Jerry Pate Design, the company owned by the winner of the 1976 U.S. Open and the 1982 Players Championship. After that latter victory, Pate threw Dye into the water on the new Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass that Dye had recently designed.
The Pete Dye-designed Teeth of the Dog course at Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic (Courtesy of Casa de Campo/Matthew Majka)
Much of the work to be done at Teeth of the Dog is cosmetic. All tees, fairways and greens will be re-grassed with Dynasty Paspalum, which is ideal for seaside courses, especially one like Teeth of the Dog where ocean spray easily can blow onto the golf holes. The fairways will be sand-capped three inches deep, which promotes firm and bouncy turf ideal for golf.
Pate’s team also will expand the current greens back to their original sizes, with some slight recontouring. All greenside bunkers will be reshaped and expanded to flat bottoms with enhanced faces for a sharper, more dramatic look. Other work includes renovating the cart paths.
Work is expected to be completed by November 2025.
“I have long admired Pete Dye, as he was a creative genius who transformed the modern game of golf with his immense talent and imagination, and no course typifies that more than Teeth of the Dog,” Pate said in a media release announcing the restoration. “The layout is truly one of the best in the world, and our job is to preserve Pete’s lifeworks and put a bit more bite back into Teeth of the Dog.”
Casa de Campo’s Teeth of the Dog in the Dominican Republic (Jason Lusk/Golfweek)
The resort’s other two Dye-designed courses will remain open to guests. The 27-hole Dye Fore course features many holes along incredible jungle cliffs above a river with long views down toward the ocean, while the 18-hole Links course plays through the center of the 7,000-acre property with wider fairways and tricky greens.
The resort as a whole is massive with a world-class marina, a smorgasbord of dining options, a wide assortment of activities ranging from shooting sports to the beach and one of the best beach bars in the world. The property includes an assortment of accommodations ranging from hotel rooms to luxury villas frequently rented by top celebrities.
The updates to Teeth of the Dog will be the first large-scale work to the course since it opened.
“We will miss Teeth of the Dog for most of 2025, but we are excited and honored to take Pete’s masterpiece to a new level and completely restore the integrity of his legendary course to new heights,“ Gilles Gagon, longtime friend of Dye and the golf director emeritus and senior director of golf sales at the resort, said in the media release. “With all the many years Pete and I worked together, I know he would be beyond pleased with the upcoming work to be done on the course that ignited his stellar career and legacy as one of the world’s premier golf architects.”
The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, site of Phil Mickelson’s win in 2021, will host a third men’s major.
The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort on Kiawah Island, South Carolina, will be the host of another major.
The venue, site of then-50-year-old Phil Mickelson’s PGA Championship triumph in 2021 to become the oldest player to win a men’s major, will again host the PGA Championship in 2031.
The PGA of America also announced Wednesday that the 2029 Girls and Boys Junior PGA Championships will be at the Ocean Course.
The 113th PGA Championship is scheduled for May 2031. It will be the third time the Wanamaker Trophy is up for grabs along South Carolina’s coast. The Ocean Course previously hosted the 2012 (won by Rory McIlroy) and 2021 PGA Championships. It’s the ninth course to host three or more PGA Championships.
Other significant events at the Ocean Course include the 1991 Ryder Cup won by the American side, the 2005 PGA Professional Championship (Mike Small) and the 2007 Senior PGA Championship (Denis Watson).
Kiawah Island Golf Resort’s Ocean Course in South Carolina (Courtesy Kiawah Island Golf Resort)
“We are ecstatic to bring the Junior PGA Championships and PGA Championship to the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort in 2029 and 2031,” said PGA of America President John Lindert, who is PGA director of golf at the Country Club of Lansing in Michigan. “Past PGA Championships at Kiawah Island have provided no shortage of memorable moments and historic performances, all taking place along a breathtaking coastal setting. The Ocean Course’s challenging layout and rich history make it an ideal destination for our championships.”
The Ocean Course was designed by Pete Dye and opened in 1991, shortly before the Ryder Cup. At the suggestion of his wife, Alice, he engineered fairways and greens closer to the tops of the dunes alongside the Atlantic Ocean instead of on lower grades, as is common on many traditional links layouts. This increases exposure to frequent winds while providing incredible views from just about any vantage.
StrackaLine offers a hole-by-hole guide for the Pete Dye Stadium Course for the American Express.
PGA West’s Pete Dye Stadium Course – one of three courses used for the PGA Tour’s 2024 The American Express in La Quinta, California – opened in 1986 with a design by the legendary architect whose name appears in the layout’s title.
The 7,187-yard, par-72 Stadium Course is the main track for this week’s event, hosting each player for one of the first three rounds as well as Sunday’s final round. The other two courses used in the first three rounds are La Quinta Country Club (7,060 yards, par 72) and PGA West’s Nicklaus Tournament Course (7,147 yards, par 72). All the players have one round on each course before the cut is made for Sunday’s final round.
Worth noting, La Quinta Country Club has undergone a two-year renovation in which all the greens have been replaced. Also, the Pete Dye Stadium course will wrap up a multi-year restoration later in 2024.
Thanks to yardage books provided by StrackaLine – the maker of detailed yardage books for thousands of courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges the pros face this week on the Stadium Course. Check out the maps of each hole below.
Berger hasn’t played since the 2022 U.S. Open at The Country Club.
According to a report from Golf Channel, Daniel Berger, who hasn’t played on the PGA Tour since the 2022 U.S. Open at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, due to a back injury has entered the field for the American Express, Jan. 18-21, in La Quinta, California.
Berger now ranks 634th in the Official World Golf Ranking and will be playing of a major medical extension.
The 30-year-old has four wins on Tour with the latest coming at the 2021 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. He’s also represented the United States at two team events, the 2017 Presidents Cup and the 2021 Ryder Cup.
Berger has recently been posting videos practicing again on social media.
Daniel Berger (Back) is out practicing again. Last we heard from him he planned on returning to the PGA Tour at the beginning of the 2023 Fall Swing. 🤷 @NUCLRGOLFpic.twitter.com/W7Psbd5UJS
Pete Dye and Herb Kohler Jr. wanted to challenge the best players in the game.
Whistling Straits became so embedded in golf’s championship schedule so quickly, it’s sometimes difficult to remember that Pete Dye’s creation on the shores of Lake Michigan is only 25 years old. On Thursday, the Straits Course celebrates its silver anniversary of July 6.
Since its opening in July 1998, the Straits has hosted three PGA Championships (2004 won by Vijay Singh, 2010 won by Martin Kaymer and 2015 won by Jason Day). The Straits joins Pebble Beach Golf Links, Pinehurst No. 2, Bethpage Black and Southern Hills as the only layouts to have hosted three men’s major championships in that span.
Throw in the 2007 U.S. Senior Open (Brad Bryant) and the 2021 Ryder Cup (U.S. won 19-9 over Europe), and Whistling Straits has quickly established itself as a major player.
Herb Kohler Jr. – the longtime executive chairman of Kohler Co., the plumbling fixtures powerhouse based near Sheboygan, Wisconsin – branched into golf with the creation of Blackwolf Run in 1988. That resort club eventually became home to two 18-hole courses (River and Meadow Valleys) as well as the newer Baths of Blackwolf Run par-3 course. In addition to the American Club Resort Hotel, Blackwolf Run formed the initial backbone of what has become Destination Kohler. Blackwolf Run hosted the first big event for the resort, the 1998 U.S. Women’s Open (Se Ri Pak won), and the composite course there again hosted the Women’s Open in 2012 (Na Yeon Choi won).
But Kohler had no intent of stopping there. He wanted more major championships, including for the men.
“That was our ambition right from the outset,” Kohler told Golfweek in a 2019 interview. “We wanted tournaments, and we didn’t want the weekly tournaments, so the only possible thing was majors.”
As he had with the creation of Blackwolf Run, Kohler turned to architect Pete Dye. It was Dye’s sometimes quirkiness that initially drew Kohler’s attention.
“This one particular chap, he was an odd duck, but he had two courses in particular that were of interest,” Kohler said. “One that had just been open to the public, it was the TPC at Sawgrass, the home course for the PGA Tour. And at least 20 different pros who had a chance to play it were extraordinarily upset, and they were making their feelings known to the local press. … It sort of fascinated me. What I liked about it was, he had this desire to get into the psyche of a pro and really befuddle him.
“This fellow, Pete Dye, took them right to the edge of embarrassment, and they didn’t like being embarrassed, but I enjoyed it. … So here was this single person, a little strange as he might be – he always wore khaki pants and always wore tennis shoes – but here was this single person who could befuddle the pros but was considerate to the amateurs when he had to be. And I liked that combination.”
Vijay Singh hits out of a bunker on the 15th hole en route to winning the 2004 PGA Championship at the Whistling Straits in Wisconsin. (Jeff Gross/Getty Images)
That determination to challenge the pros on every shot was the impetus for creating the Straits Course. Kohler found 560 suitable acres on the shore of Lake Michigan, but the land was relatively flat, perched on a tabletop above the lake – the site included an abandoned military airfield. Dye, who passed away in 2020 at age 94, went to work converting the site into a rocking and rolling golf course reminiscent of something found in wild Irish dunes, moving 13,000 truckloads of sand in the process of creating 70 feet of elevation change. It became home to the Straits Course and the adjacent Irish Course.
“Pete and I had this general agreement that the Straits course would be something like Ballybunion (in Ireland), but that was the closest we got to any specifics in design. It was all Pete thereafter, and he did a wonderful, wonderful job,” Kohler, who passed away in 2022 at age 83, said of the course that features eight holes on the edge of the massive lake. “It was the sand that gave it the character and gave the fairways some speed.”
The Straits has been challenging the best players in the game ever since. And even in the absence of its two masterminds – Kohler and Dye – the resort will continue to challenge and thrill its guests for years to come. The Straits ranks No. 9 on Golfweek’s Best list of top modern courses in the U.S., and it’s the highest-ranked public-access course in Wisconsin.
Check out several photos of the 1998 grand opening of the Straits below, along with more shots of the course today. And for even more on Whistling Straits, check these hole-by-hole flyover videos of the course shot before the 2021 Ryder Cup.
StrackaLine offers hole-by-hole maps for TPC Louisiana, which was designed by Pete Dye.
TPC Louisiana – site of the 2023 Zurich Classic of New Orleans on the PGA Tour – was designed by Pete Dye and opened in 2004 in Avondale. It was built with consultation from PGA Tour players Steve Elkington and Kelly Gibson.
The course ranks No. 2 in Louisiana on Golfweek’s Best ranking of top public-access layouts in each state. It underwent a $2 million enhancement project in 2019 intended in large part to provide better playing conditions. It will play to 7,425 yards with a par of 72 for the Zurich Classic.
Thanks to yardage books provided by StrackaLine – the maker of detailed yardage books for thousands of courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges the pros face this week in Louisiana.
StrackaLine offers hole-by-hole maps for one of the most recognizable courses on the PGA Tour.
Harbour Town Golf Links – site of the 2023 RBC Heritage on the PGA Tour – was designed by Pete Dye with an assist from Jack Nicklaus and opened in 1969 on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
Harbour Town will play to 7,191 yards with a par of 71 for the RBC Heritage. With tree branches frequently dangling into playing corridors, the layout tends to favor control over brute strength as players must navigate sometimes tight fairway lines on the interior holes before the course moves to Calibogue Sound for the final two holes. The par 3s are considered by many to be among the best sets of 1-shotters in the game.
Thanks to yardage books provided by StrackaLine – the maker of detailed yardage books for thousands of courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges the pros face this week.
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A short par 3 with a tee box perched on the side of a cliff. Unpredictable winds swirling from beneath, forcing players to use their best guess at a number, and a healthy dose of Scottish-style pot bunkers surrounding the green on the safe side, meaning those who get in but don’t get out smoothly can easily chalk up a wildly inflated score.
Welcome to the 17th hole at Austin Country Club, host of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play for at least two more days. This 150-yard shortie looks palatable from the tee but has often been the deciding factor in matches during the seven years the event has been staged in the state’s capital.
This is where Billy Horschel closed out Scottie Scheffler for the title in 2021, and a host of superstars – Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Sergio Garcia and more – have found themselves in dire straits on this short, seductive hole, as seen in the photos below.
But here’s the little-known fact that often goes untold:
No. 17 wasn’t even part of the original plans.
When the club’s membership looked to make a second move to a new property, this time to a hilly piece of land along Lake Austin, legendary architect Pete Dye was brought in to design the masterpiece on display today.
Dye originally sketched out the routing on a napkin, putting together much of the track as it currently exists. He proudly passed the drawings along and was a little miffed when someone noted that he had not routed enough holes in the plan.
Legendary University of Texas golfer and World Golf Hall of Famer Tom Kite picked up the story here during Friday’s third round of play.
“Pete had the thing on a napkin, he just drew the thing out,” Kite told Golfweek while standing on the practice putting green at ACC. “I think it was probably (architect) Roy Bechtol who looked at him and said, ‘Hey Pete, there’s only 17 holes here.’ Pete looked at him and said, ‘I can find a par 3 anywhere.’ ”
And that’s how the 17th hole, which plays as No. 8 in the normal, non-tournament routing, was born.
Of course, it also explains why the hole hangs precariously on a hill, a characteristic that has given many players fits. The hole was shoehorned in after the initial concept was hatched, needing to be short so players wouldn’t have to backtrack too far to the next tee box.
Kite, who has played the famed course more times than he can count, said the breezes can make the hole tricky for players who aren’t accustomed to the area’s topography.
“The winds come up through the canyons, and you get back on those tees and you can’t always feel the wind,” Kite said. “And so it makes choosing the right club there very, very problematic. I mean, it’s really tough to pull the right club and get it close. And even for those of us that have played it numerous times, it’s always difficult, but we know the tendencies.”
Kite added that players needed time to adjust to the winds upon arriving in Austin in 2016 for the first playing of the Dell Match Play there – the first few years the hole wreaked real havoc on the world’s best.
“You see the guys that come in here and they obviously know a lot more now than they did the first couple of years that we played here,” Kite said. “And while it’s a tough, tough club to pull, if you do get it right the green is pretty demanding. It has a lot of undulation in it. It’s an interesting hole for sure.”
Dye, who died in 2020 at the age of 94, was particularly proud of the course, telling Austin American-Stateman columnist Kirk Bohls in 2016 that the partnership with designer Rod Whitman proved to be one of his favorite projects.
“I love that golf course,” he said. “It was a difficult job, but it worked out OK. It was really remarkable. I don’t think they changed it very much.”
Dale Morgan is the longtime head pro at ACC and someone who also figures largely into the club’s lore. Morgan is one of only three pros the club has ever had, the others being legendary teacher Harvey Penick and his son, Tinsley Penick.
And he also marvels at how Dye’s quick cover-up produced a masterpiece.
“When he realized there were only 17 holes, he said, ‘Well, there’s an area over here and I think we can make one,'” Morgan said. “He ended up making one of the best little par 3s in the world.”
Morgan said Dye had no idea when he first put the plan together that the club would end up with a World Golf Championships event for the better part of a decade, and he certainly didn’t know the little hole that was an afterthought could be a deciding stage for some of the world’s best golfers.
“He thinks he’s building a golf course for members and he has no idea we’ll be playing these championships out here,” Morgan said.
“I know he’s looking down and smiling on us right now.”
Here’s a look at some of the trouble No. 17 has offered up through the tournament’s run:
