– opened in ; Carved out of the rolling and wooded countryside, the demanding course features many holes with right doglegs, as expected from Trevino. (262-245-7000 – www.genevanationalresort.com)
LEE TREVINO Geneva National Golf Club – The Trevino Course
If you want to keep up with the Joneses, you'll have to travel to the Madison area:
opened in 1991; The course gets its name from the landscape features left by the last retreating glacier. It sits on the terminal moraine, where the Wisconsin Glacier stopped, forming the backbone of the ridge that separates the land into groups of rolling hills and valleys. (608-845-7700 – universityridge.com)
ROBERT TRENT JONES, JR. University Ridge (University of Wisconsin) –
(Roger Packard & Andy North designed the North Nine opened in 1994); Limestone bluffs and rolling
ROBERT TRENT JONES, SR. The Springs Course (original 18) – opened in 1971;
hills surround the valley through which the course runs. The last Ice Age, which flattened much of the Midwest, missed this area creating wonderful nat- ural features. The course, featuring narrow landing areas and water on nearly every hole, sits on land which used to be the Frank Lloyd Wright estate. (608-588-7000 – thehouseontherock.com)
I would remiss if I didn't at least mention several other courses in southeastern Wisconsin that were designed by famous architects, one of whom, Donald Ross, was probably the most famous of all. Unfortunately, these are private courses, but they add to the region's mystique as a golf mecca.
H.S. COLT, C.H. ALISON & WALTER TRAVIS Milwaukee Country Club in River Hills opened in 1929
DONALD ROSS Kenosha Country Club opened in 1922. Oconomowoc Golf Club opened in 1916.
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