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Article: PGA CHAMPIONSHIP; WHISTLING STRAITS; Where golfers come to Dye; Players in the PGA Championship will be challenged - or perhaps tortured - by Whistling Straits, one of the most punishing designs of a renowned architect.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- August 11, 2004
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Byline: Jerry Zgoda; Staff Writer
Haven, Wis. -- From a former flat, desolate waterfront site where locals once dumped abandoned automobiles and drug dealers clandestinely traded their wares, the PGA of America this week brings you a major golf championship venue like no other, Whistling Straits Golf Club.
Toilet king Herb Kohler commissioned it. Mischevious architect Pete Dye dreamt it. And a fleet of bulldozers delivered it along an uninterrupted two-mile stretch of Lake Michigan coastline, not that long ago sculpting more than 13,000 truckloads of quarried sand into slopes, swales and shelves that recall Ireland's great, tumbling seaside links layouts ...