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Last month we drew comparisons between heavily manufactured dunes courses in Scotland and Wisconsin, with our poll respondents clearly of the view that Kingbarns (80% of votes) was superior to this year’s controversial PGA Championship venue, Whistling Straits (which only received 20% of votes
Later this month the final major championship for 2010 will be played on the Straits Course at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin, designed by enigmatic 80+ year-old architect Pete Dye. Whistling Straits first opened for play in 1998, two years prior to Scotland’s Kingsbarns course, which is a sim