No. 27
Erin Hills Golf Course

The most talked about course of 2006
is, like Chambers Bay, a wild Irish rover
that unfolds over heaving farmland 35
miles northwest of Milwaukee.

Already
named as the site of the 2011 U.S. Amateur,
this Michael Hurdzan/Dana Fry/Ron
Whitten design remains on the short list
of possible U.S. Open venues.

Stretching
7,824 yards from the back, Erin Hills has
all the length it will ever need, plus an endless
variety of lies, stances and angles. Only
the club's bratwurst reminds you that the
Emerald Isle is still an ocean away.