TEE BOX THE BIG PICTURE The new Sedge Valley course at Sand Valley Golf Resort in Wisconsin, designed by Tom Doak and photographed by Kevin Murray. Doak took inspiration from classic English heathland and links designs for Sand Valley’s latest course, allowing the land to dictate a quirky routing with several short par fours, back-toback par threes and just one par five, albeit maybe the longest in the state. The result is a layout that is more intimate than its three big brothers – Sand Valley, Mammoth Dunes and the Lido – with a notably lower total yardage. When it opens in July 2024 there will be plenty who will rank it top of the pack. This image shows the green at the par-four fifteenth, which has a central bunker set into a huge rise in the fairway. Golfers that fail to carry the crest may well be left without a view of the putting surface for their approach. GCA visited Sedge Valley in late 2023 and an On Site report will appear in the July 2024 issue. 16
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