Fly into Milwaukee, drive 60 minutes north. Stay at the American Club. The 2020 Ryder Cup is still warm.

• Whistling Straits

  Whistling Straits, Pete Dye 1998 on the Lake Michigan junkyard. Three PGAs, the Ryder Cup.

Hour drive south. The 2017 U.S. Open host, walked. No trees, no water, all wind.

• Erin Hills

  Erin Hills, Hurdzan/Fry/Whitten 2006. Played 8,000 yards in the major.

Two hours northwest. The Coore & Crenshaw / Doak resort in the Central Wisconsin sand barrens.

• Sand Valley Golf Resort

  Sand Valley, Coore & Crenshaw 2017, with Mammoth Dunes (Doak) and the new Lido replica next door.

Fly into Milwaukee, drive 60 minutes north. Stay at the American Club. Three PGAs, 2020 Ryder Cup.

• Whistling Straits

  Whistling Straits, Pete Dye 1998 on the Lake Michigan junkyard.

Sister course at the Kohler resort. Pete Dye 2000. Inland holes with constructed dunes.

• Whistling Straits

  Whistling Straits Irish, Pete Dye 2000.

River and Meadow Valleys courses. Pete Dye 1988/1990. Hosted the 1998 and 2012 U.S. Women's Opens.

• Blackwolf Run

  Blackwolf Run River, Pete Dye 1988.

Fly into Madison or Central Wisconsin. Stay at the resort. Coore & Crenshaw's 2017 Midwest minimalist masterpiece.

• Sand Valley Golf Resort

  Sand Valley, Coore & Crenshaw 2017.

Tom Doak's 2018 second course at the resort. Wider, friendlier, longer than Sand Valley.

• Mammoth Dunes

  Mammoth Dunes, Tom Doak 2018.

Tom Doak's 2023 reconstruction of CB Macdonald's lost 1914 Long Island masterpiece. The only way to play the Lido now.

• Sand Valley Golf Resort

  The Lido, Tom Doak reconstruction 2023.