Roll Call: Wisconsin - Madison vs Milwaukee

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Thankfully, the Refuge can help change that.

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Courses Iā€™ve played:

  1. Erin Hills
  2. Lawsonia Links
  3. Strawberry Creek
  4. Kenosha CC
  5. Sentry World
  6. Hawkā€™s View
  7. Wild Rock
  8. Spring Valley
  9. Racine CC
  10. Eagle Springs

I have massive, massive holes in my resume that I am looking to fill in 2021. If anyone is looking to plug especially weekday holes for me, I am in.

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So how does someone get on at Blue Mound (literally 5 minutes from my house) or Milwaukee? Have to be the guest of a member? Any other options?

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Play in State Open and State Am when there, have a pro who can make a call to get you on, or know a member. All options that Iā€™ve explored.

Edit: To expand, I have customers who are members are both as well as a few guys who are members at my club who are members at one or the other (in a couple cases, both). Blue Mound was nearly my home prior to COVID when things took a couple weird turns and I needed to scale things back spending wise and it no longer made sense. Have been lucky to meet the people that I have over the years and make the connections that I have, not a doubt about it.

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Wondered the same thingā€¦ played once with someone who used to work there and was only able to get 11 holes in. Was a great place and the greens were pure. Definitely want to get back out

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Letā€™s go.

Weā€™ll knock out one a month until you are tired of me.

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Add me to the havenā€™t played many private courses listā€¦

I also have a bunch of blind spots in the publicly accessible courses too though, so maybe I can get out more in 2021.

1 Mammoth (played well bias)
2 Sand Valley
3 Lawsonia Links
4 Irish
5 River
6 U Ridge
7 Oneida (high school bias)
8 Meadow Valleys
9 Bishops Bay
10 Sentryworld

My top 5 ā€œwant to playā€ list

Milwaukee CC
Green Bay CC
Blue Mound
Erin Hills
Straits

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Ha, well thatā€™s never gonna happen :laughing:

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Should I recall correctly, I do owe you a beer still, so it only makes sense to do so at a course or 6.

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Not with that kind of attitude it isnā€™t! :rofl: :joy:

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Dark, dreary, and crumby forecast so Iā€™ll start with my 2021 wish list for the sake of positivity.

  1. Sand Valley and Mammoth and itā€™s not even close. Perhaps my #1 golf priority for next season.
  2. U-Ridge - Madison resident, but strangely havenā€™t played it yet. Popular choice among many here and lower hanging fruit I look forward to playing next year.
  3. Wild Rock - heard good things, looks nice. Not much more to add.

Not necessarily a ranking, but my 10 favorites so far are:

Erin Hills - played one of my worst rounds ever, itching to go back and right the wrongs
West Bend CC
Irish - always seems to score well there
Lawsonia Links
Meadow Valleys - low course on the Kohler totem pole but always had a soft spot for this place
Whistling Straits - wonderful setting, but would never pay full freight
Washington County
St. Germain - my nod for way up north, though not as well traveled up there
The Bull - unpopular opinion, but that 4 approach - 8th stretch is really quite lovely. Fond memories of certain shots there.
Brown Deer.

Milwaukee/Madison-centric for sure. I have work to do!

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Glad this is a judgment free zone. I have a high ceiling and a low floor. Hoping to see a few more courses in 2021.

1 Mammoth
2 Lawsonia
3 Straits
4 URidge
5 Troy Burne
6 Irish (only have foggy HS tourney memories of this)
7 Lake Arrowhead - Pines
8 Hawks Landing
9 Bass Lake (Antigo)
10 Wild Rock

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The only way anybody is going to be wrong here is if they have The Oaks anywhere on their ā€œtop 10ā€ list.

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Even if you had your lowest career score there?? Asking for a friendā€¦ :zipper_mouth_face:

PS - it still isnā€™t on my top-10

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I achieved my 2020 goal to NOT play The Oaks. Pretty proud.

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Yep, even if you had your lowest round, it canā€™t be on the list.

This is my goal for the remainder of my life. I hope that my eventual children will also be smart enough to never play there.

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Top 10 for 2020:

  1. Mammoth Dunes
  2. Erin Hills
  3. Sand Valley
  4. The Irish
  5. Lawsonia Links
  6. Whistling Straits
  7. Wild Rock
  8. The River
  9. Hidden Glen
  10. Lac La Belle
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Top 10 that Iā€™ve played.

  1. Whistling Straits - Straits
  2. Blackwolf Run - River
  3. Erin Hills
  4. SentryWorld
  5. Whistling Straits - Irish
  6. Troy Burne
  7. Blackwolf Run - Meadow Valleys
  8. Lawsonia - Links
  9. The Bull at Pinehurst Farms
  10. The Bog

Following thatā€¦

  1. Washington County
  2. Wild Rock
  3. Brown Deer Park
  4. St. Germain
  5. Lawsonia - Woodlands

Have yet to make it to Sand Valley (planned for 2021), and also planning a trip to University Ridge and Lac La Belle.

Shoutout to the nod to St. Germain - played it for the first time this year and was very impressed!

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Agreed! Played for first time this summer as well. Was told it was tight & certainly lived up to that description, but well kept & a great round in the midst of a fishing trip.

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