Though you’d be lucky to play any one of its four stellar golf courses, make the Straits Course at Whistling Straits your top priority on your American Club Kohler golf vacation.
The Straits Course at Whistling Straits
Given a site with three miles of Lake Michigan shoreline, legendary architect Pete Dye routed eight holes directly along the water and hauled in enough sand and dirt to erect 70-foot tall dunes. Combined with its pot bunkers, stone farmhouse that serves as the clubhouse, stone bridges, and Scottish Blackface sheep grazing the hillsides, it’s as close as you can get to the British Isles on an American Club Kohler golf vacation. Heck, even the wind is authentic.
In addition to its looks, the soul of golf is present here, too. Off the first tee, for instance, you’re asked to hit a 200-yard carry to the fairway – consider it your personal Pete Dye welcome to your American Club Kohler golf vacation.
From there, you progress to the eight holes that hug the cliffs at various angles, each demanding careful calculation of the wind and some so steeply graded that they appear ready to slide down into Lake Michigan.
The round concludes on a hole with two forced carries: one over a sinister array of sand dunes and bunkers, and the second over a creek and ravine. This 489-yard, par-4 monster is aptly named, “Dyeabolical” and may be the hardest hole you’ll play on your American Club Kohler golf vacation.
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