Irish Course
The second course at Whistling Straits is the Irish Course, an inland grass-and-dune layout. It is a par-72 course that features 7,201 yards (6,585 m) of golf from the longest tees, with a course rating of 75.6 and a slope rating of 146. Also designed by Pete Dye, it opened for play in 2000.
Having served as a PGA Championship host site twice, the Straits Course has more notoriety, but the Irish Course is similarly difficult to play. It is trouble-filled with forced carries, gnarly rough, ponds, streams and ravines, and waste bunkers — tremendous in size and number — which are minimally maintained to let the elements shape and reshape them.
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