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Article: WHISTLING STRAITS OFFICIALLY ARRIVES THE COURSE IS CHOSEN TO PLAY HOST TO TWO PGA CHAMPIONSHIPS AND THE 2020 RYDER CUP.(SPORTS)(ROB HERNANDEZ)(Column)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- January 25, 2005
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Byline: Rob Hernandez
Whistling Straits is one of the top five golf courses in the United States that you and I can play. (If you trust Golf Magazine's rankings and are willing to part with $297.)
The 7,600-yard masterpiece that Pete Dye designed with considerable help from Herb Kohler's checkbook has become the crown jewel of his four courses and the main reason Sheboygan County is touted as the No.2-ranked golf resort destination in America (in Golf Digest's opinion).
But the PGA of America cemented Whistling Straits' status as this country's premier modern course with the announcement Monday that it will bring the PGA Championship back to ...