Kohler, WI

Once a dormitory for immigrant employees with a pub, bowling alley and barbershop, The American Club reemerged in 1981 as a full-service hotel. Today this Tudor-style redbrick building welcomes guests with gracious hospitality that has earned a Forbes Five-Star and AAA 5-diamond rating. Adjacent to The American Club, the Carriage House is home to the Kohler Waters Spa™ and offers the same renowned service in more contemporary surroundings. Two courses designed by Pete Dye. The Straits Course. Open, rugged and windswept terrain defines Straits. Sculpted along two miles of Lake Michigan shoreline, one of the great championship courses in the United States. Fescue fairways and over a thousand sand dune bunkers with elevation changes from 10 to 70 feet above the great lake. The Irish Course. Just inland. Interspersed with four meandering streams. Fescues of greens and golden browns. Is a course with real bite. Two courses designed by Pete Dye. When it opened, the River Course created a three-month lead time for a tee-time. Golf Digest named it the best new public course of 1988. It caused Herb Kohler and Pete Dye to build a second course called Meadow Valleys which surprisingly didn’t change the lead time one bit.