Whistling Straits Golf Course

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N8501 County Road LS
Sheboygan, WI 53083
(920) 565-6050
www.americanclubresort.com/golf/ws/ws_index.html

Whistling Straits hosted the 2004 PGA Championship, and is the future site of the US Senior Open in 2007, PGA Championships in 2010 and 2015, and the Ryder Cup in 2020.

The Straits Course replicates the ancient seaside links courses of 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 second longest course to host a major. [citation needed]

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.