Whistling Straits (Straits)
The Straits is Pete Dye at his most theatrical: a treeless, walking-only links laid along two miles of Lake Michigan bluff, with something close to a thousand bunkers, blind shots, and sheep grazing the fescue. It looks like it has stood for a century; it opened in 1998.
The résumé matches the drama—PGA Championships in 2004, 2010, and 2015, the 2007 U.S. Senior Open, and the 2021 Ryder Cup. A caddie or forecaddie is required, there are no carts, and the wind off the lake means the number on the card is only ever a suggestion.
Along Lake MichiganThe Straits never lets you forget the water—holes run along the bluff, greens sit hard against the drop, and the wind off Lake Michigan turns a stock 7-iron into a guess. It walks like an Irish links that somehow washed up in Wisconsin.
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