There was a goood article in this week's GolfWorld about Whistling Straits too. It concentrated a bit more on the difficulty of the course design by Pete Dye and how it takes golf courses to a new level of challenge for today's players and equipment. The players who have practiced there are filled with fear and loathing already. Word is if the wind blows during the tournament, that things could get mightly ugly. Looking at the pictures, I never saw so many bunkers or so many undulations, which will undoubtedly send balls bouncing in all directions when they hit.

Greenguy, I think their whole point in designing and building this course was to make it especially difficult, and Herb Kohler can afford to do whatever it takes to maintain the level of perfection he wants, a luxury that most other courses don't have. I think that they will love to have "raised the bar" for everyone else if other courses try to duplicate the design and conditions of Whistling Straits. It will be Herb's and Pete's legacy to golf.