Best public golf in Wisconsin.

WI · Kohler · Resort

A Pete Dye course along the Sheboygan River.

WI · Erin · Public

A treeless glacial-terrain course that hosted the 2017 U.S. Open.

WI · Nekoosa · Resort · Par 73

David McLay Kidd's expansive sand-dunes course at the Sand Valley resort, all width and bold contour. A thrilling counterpoint to the original Coore-Crenshaw course.

WI · Sheboygan · Resort · Par 72

Dye trucked in mountains of sand to sculpt a faux-Irish links along two miles of Lake Michigan bluff, with hundreds of bunkers and sheep roaming the dunes. It has hosted three PGA Championships and the 2021 Ryder Cup.

WI · Kohler · Resort

The second 18 at Kohler's inland complex.

WI · Nekoosa · Resort · Par 72

The resort's flagship rides ancient glacial dunes through scrub pine, firm and bouncy golf that put rural Wisconsin on the map.

WI · Nekoosa · Resort · Par 68

A compact par-68 inspired by England's Woking and Swinley Forest, proving short courses can be the most thought-provoking of all.

WI · Stevens Point · Public

Famous for its flower-ringed par-3 16th.

WI · Sheboygan · Resort · Par 72

The quieter twin to the Straits, the Irish winds through dunes and wetlands rather than along the lake. Every bit as rugged, but it rewards a more strategic ground-game approach.

WI · Lake Geneva · Public · Par 72

Arnold Palmer's course at Geneva National, draped along Lake Como with rolling, wooded terrain. One of three big-name layouts at the club.

WI · Lake Geneva · Public · Par 72

Lee Trevino's contribution at Geneva National, with water in play across rolling lakeside land. A scenic, strategic southern Wisconsin round.

WI · Lake Geneva · Resort · Par 72

A long, water-and-bunker-heavy resort course in Lake Geneva that lives up to its name. The headliner of the Grand Geneva pair.

WI · Lake Geneva · Resort · Par 71

Originally a Pete Dye and Jack Nicklaus design, reworked into a links-flavored resort course at Grand Geneva. The more playable of the two.

WI · Green Lake · Public

A bold 1930 Langford & Moreau course with huge bunkers.

WI · Sheboygan Falls · Public · Par 72

Jack Nicklaus's only Wisconsin public design, set along the Sheboygan River near Kohler. A strong add-on to a Whistling Straits trip.

WI · Nekoosa · Resort

A short course of seventeen one-shotters tumbling through the Sand Valley dunes. As much fun as golf gets, at midday or at dusk.

WI · Verona · Public · Par 71

A Robert Trent Jones Jr. course split between open prairie and wooded glacial terrain near Madison, home of the Badgers and a Champions Tour stop.

WI · Wisconsin Dells · Public · Par 72

A dramatic course built around an old quarry and pine woods at the Wilderness Resort in the Dells. The most striking layout in the area.

WI · Hayward · Public · Par 72

Liddy teamed with Pete Dye on this Hayward standout, open links on the front and wooded drama on the back. A Northwoods bucket-list round that stays accessible.

WI · Milwaukee · Public · Par 71

A classic Milwaukee County muni that hosted the PGA Tour for years, where Tiger Woods made his pro debut in 1996. Mature trees and history at a public price.

WI · Nekoosa · Public · Par 72

A pretty pines course on the central Wisconsin sand near Sand Valley, long a regional value favorite. A good warm-up for the resort nearby.

WI · Green Lake · Public · Par 72

The tree-lined companion to Lawsonia's renowned Links course in Green Lake. Quieter and shadier, a strong value on a Lawsonia stay.

WI · Arkdale · Public · Par 72

A quirky resort course featuring replicas of famous holes, several along Castle Rock Lake. A fun, only-in-Wisconsin novelty round.

WI · Wisconsin Dells · Public · Par 72

A Dells mainstay co-designed by Wisconsin native Andy North, with rolling glacial terrain. The pick of the family-vacation golf in the Dells.

WI · Hartford · Public · Par 72

An Arthur Hills county-owned course northwest of Milwaukee, routinely rated among the best public values in the state. Big, rolling, and well kept.