Article: Variety spices up Mayville

Variety spices up Mayville

Course provides a nice blend of the old, new

By GARY D'AMATO gdamato@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel

Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Mayville -- The original nine holes at Mayville Golf Club are a classic example of 1930s golf course architecture, with narrow tree- lined fairways and tiny push-up greens that slope from back to front.

A nine-hole addition, designed by Bob Lohmann some six decades later, isn't quite as sharp around the edges and features wider fairways, bigger greens and modern bunkering.

One would think the bipolar nines would be at odds, but the combination works surprisingly well at Mayville, a fine small-town municipal course located an easy hour's ...

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