Article: BIG FISH GOLF CLUB; HAYWARD, WIS. THE ONE THAT DIDN'T GET AWAY; The pro at Big Fish Golf Club landed a trophy when he persuaded Pete Dye to design a gem of a course in northern Wisconsin.(SPORTS)

Byline: Jerry Zgoda; Staff Writer

Hayward, Wis. -- Big Fish Golf Club is proof of persistence. Golf pro Matt Vandelac telephoned renowned architect Pete Dye just after dawn for three consecutive days asking him to design a course in Wisconsin's north woods, a destination remote enough that one morning Vandelac heard Dye fumbling with a map and asking where in tarnation a town called Hayward was.

That was more than four years ago.

One name change, a foreclosure and sherriff's auction, two ownership changes and a season in limbo later, Vandelac's vision and Dye's creation routed over a former farm field and through rugged forest opened last ...

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