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Milwaukee Country Club, designed in 1929 by the team of H. S. Colt and C. H. Allison, is a prime example of Golden Age course design. A parkland layout in suburban River Hills, it will host this year’s U.S. Mid-Amateur in September. Gene Sarazen won the 1933 PGA Championship at Blue Mound Golf & Country Club in Wauwatosa, on Milwaukee’s west side. The unmistakable imprint of Donald Ross can be found at Kenosha Country Club, a half-hour south of Milwaukee, and the Oconomowoc Golf Club, forty minutes west of the city. Tuckaway Country Club, in the southwest suburb of Franklin, hosted the Greater Milwaukee Open (now the U.S. Bank Championship) from 1973 to 1993.
Five players on the PGA Tour call Wisconsin home, including Steve Stricker, who, after rebuilding his swing in the winter of 2006 by hitting yellow balls into the snow at Cherokee Country Club in Madison, rose from 337th to fourth in the world rankings. He and Jerry Kelly, also of Madison, live in the Dairy State year round. The other three cheeseheads on Tour are Mark Wilson, J. P. Hayes and Skip Kendall. Wisconsin has also produced the two-time U.S. Open champion Andy North and the LPGA star Sherri Steinhauer.
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