Echo the Wild Ridge comments…definitely worth your visit. Mill Run is fine for a fun round after tackling Wild Ridge. Not super challenging but for the price and the cold beers…worth a late afternoon round.
Lake Wissota is great, been a couple of summers since I last played it but loved it for a morning round. Wish more holes were actually on the lake but still a fun course, especially for the price.
Pine Valley 18 is very dumb but I love the tee shot on 17. Dropping a wedge down that chute is so much fun. Hard agree on MCC. It could be okay with the right ownership but their irrigation is the worst I’ve ever seen.
It being a closing hole is my issue with it. Fine on its own, but I hate bad finishers. Not coincidentally, MCC’s benign par 3 18th is also terrible.
This would ABSOLUTELY fall under “played worse”.
Hey folks, anybody want to play some golf with a North Carolinian in late July?
I have a wedding in Madison on 7/27 and am considering adding some days to explore some courses in WI. Right now I’m thinking something like:
Weds. 7/24
Arrive in Milwaukee that evening/night
Thurs. 7/25
Plans TBD, but options are possibly:
Make some requests on Thousand Greens for some very early morning golf at a club in/near the city and try to catch the afternoon brewers game
Try something like Lac Le Belle, skip the brewers game, then head onto lawsonia for Friday golf
Fri. 7/26
Thinking this is a 36 holer at lawsonia, likely staying near there the night before
Sat. 7/27
Either get in the night before or arrive early that morning. Maybe look to play something local there. Have fun at the wedding.
Sun 7/28
Head back home
Let me know if anyone would be interested in showing me around your great state and the embarrassment of golf riches it offers! Haven’t booked anything yet so I’m flexible.
Played Big Fish for the first time this morning. Interesting course, definitely tale of two nines. Front played very firm and very fast. The back played like a traditional north woods course. Enjoyed it, will probably get back there later in the year to see how conditions change throughout the season.
The front plays like they’re trying to keep the Dye alive but the back kind of feels like that one overgrown house in your neighborhood that owes property taxes and is about to be foreclosed. It was probably great at one time but it needs some work.
Thanks to everyone that suggested Mascoutin for my weekend trip with my dad and brother. Red and white blurred together for me but I enjoyed both. Had a birdie putt on 18 (9 blue) to break 80 and shoot my lowest round they’d ever seen me play. I started playing golf ten years ago and played all my golf exclusively with them for about three, praying to break 110 most rounds in that time. It felt great to show them how much my game has grown over time.
We also played Lawsonia Links on the trip. It was the first time I could ever get my dad out to a course he qualifies as “hype golf”, which just means it costs over $100 a round and he’s too cheap to do that regardless of how great the course is. During that round on Links I was able to convince him to let me treat him to a round at Sand Valley next year for his 60th. We have another golf weekend coming up with some 2CGC guys and family that I’m stoked about. I had a slight health scare about six weeks back so now every round with friends/family and every trip I get to take feels like Christmas morning.
How did he like Lawsonia?
Lawsonia is over $100 now? They used to have “name your price” Wednesdays like a few years ago
In typical my dad fashion he said “It’s nice, it’s in decent shape” when we were out there. We’ve played links golf in Ireland so he went “I mean, I guessss it’s links like.” Overall he enjoyed the round though.
When I played it in July 2020 I think it was $75 for a round and $125 for all day. This weekend it was $140 per player.
The $125 all-you-can-play deal was truly amazing… Those days are looooong gone. It is no longer a hidden gem.
It was a buck a hole on Tuesdays during covid…
Rivers or Meadows at Blackwolf? Tried searching history on rec/comp.
For my brother, has some pop but sprays, hits full 60s instead of chip and run.
Meadows, significantly cheaper and the quality is not any less than the River
They’ve actually closed the gap in cost between the 2.
River is $495, Meadows is $395.
Would still play meadows. But that’s because I hate River.
