Top Five Memories of the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits

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Published: August 18, 2010

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Featured Columnist Andy Reistetter was on site last week at the 92nd PGA Championship at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin. Here are his Top 5 memories of a fascinating week:  

1.  The golf course won! I thought the golf course was an excellent choice to host a major championship. It deserves to be up there with the elite golf courses of the world including the hosts of the other three majors this year: Augusta National, Pebble Beach, and the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland.

To me it seemed like a tilted Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass where THE PLAYERS is conducted each year. The landscape was tilted about 20 degrees to the east by design. All the water drains off to form Lake Michigan, except Howard's Creek on the 18th hole and the lake on the par-5 fifth hole.

True to its designer all the holes on this golf course are "Dye-abolical" to the n'th degree of Herb Kohler's vision and financing. The only hole called "Dye-abolical," the 18th, was pivotal as it was designed same as the 17th on the Stadium Course.

 

2.  The golf course was not the story, only the means by which a true champion of golf was determined.

Although "the young and the long" Bubba Watson, Martin Kaymer, Dustin Johnson, Jason Day, Rory McIlroy, and Nick Watney were in the mix at the end, other golfing constituencies were well represented.



"Shorter, older and wiser players" such as Jim Furyk and Steve Elkington were able to make a run for the "Glory's Last Shot" title on Sunday afternoon as well as Zach Johnson.

Senior PGA champion Tom Lehman recorded the only ace of the week at the 17th in the third round.

The robust competition is a true indication of the fairness and the value of shot-making on the Straits Course in Kohler's Golf World.

 

3.  Golf is a game that challenges people as much mentally as physically yet i...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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