Pete Dye's companion course to the River Course at Blackwolf Run, opening with prairie/oak-savanna terrain on the front and dramatic glacier-carved holes on the back; part of the routing (with the River Course) used for the 1998 U.S. Women's Open won by Se Ri Pak.
This course is in our GSPro library — pull it up in any bay and play it wall to wall.
"The 'other' Pete Dye course at Kohler besides the more famous River Course — still tournament pedigree (1998 U.S. Women's Open), so don't undersell it to members."
Half of Pete Dye's original Blackwolf Run masterpiece in Kohler, Wisconsin. The resort opened 18 Dye holes in 1988 — Golf Digest's Best New Public Course that year — and expanded to 36 by 1990, splitting into the River and Meadow Valleys courses. Meadow Valleys got the broader, rolling glacial-valley ground. Its back nine formed half of the composite 'Original Championship Course' used for the 1998 U.S. Women's Open, where rookie Se Ri Pak's playoff win ignited the Korean golf boom.
Anyone on a Kohler buddies trip playing the full rota (Straits, Irish, River, Meadow Valleys), and history-minded golfers who want to walk the ground where Se Ri Pak changed golf in 1998.
The back nine — holes 10-18 were half the 1998 and 2012 U.S. Women's Open composite course, running through the property's best valley land along the Sheboygan River tributaries. That stretch is the championship pedigree.
The gentler half of Blackwolf Run, with more width than the River — but this is still Pete Dye at a major-hosting resort: deep bunkers, big greens, real length. Fine for a game bogey golfer, long day for a novice.
In GSPro via community recreation. Plays as approachable Dye — a good step-up course for Clubhouse mid-handicappers before they attempt the River or Whistling Straits in the sim. Pair the two Blackwolf courses for a 36-hole Kohler night.
Public resort golf at Destination Kohler. Green fees in peak season run north of $200; staying at the resort gets priority times. The cheaper, easier tee time of the two Blackwolf Run courses.
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