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Article: Whistling Straits lands PGA Championship
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 20, 2000
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Whistling Straits lands PGA Championship
Major golf tournament coming to state in 2004
By GARY D'AMATO
of the Journal Sentinel staff
Thursday, January 20, 2000
The PGA of America's persistence in its pursuit of Whistling
Straits finally paid off when it was announced Wednesday that the
links-style golf course near Sheboygan would host the 2004 PGA
Championship.
The event would be expected to draw as many as 175,000 spectators
from around the world.
"I think it's great news for this state," said Herbert V. Kohler
Jr., president and chairman of the board of the Kohler Co., which
owns Whistling Straits. "People in Wisconsin love golf. It's a part
of our lives, almost as much as the Green Bay ...