The Wisconsin resort property has debuted virtual golf, and officials there have been pleasantly surprised by how quickly it has caught on. “We’re trying to extend our season and the golf experience for our guests, not only into the winter months, but into the later hours of the day,” said Director of Golf Dirk Willis.

The executive with the Sunrise Company is also the CEO/General Manager of Toscana CC in Indian Wells, Calif. He will be the organization’s 40th President. Former LPGA Tour player Suzy Whaley is the new Vice President and Jim Richerson, General Manager & Group Director of Golf for Kohler Co.’s Whistling Straits and Blackwolf Run properties, is the new Secretary.

The Friends of the Black River Forest marched and demonstrated in front of The American Club and other locations owned by Kohler Company, as part of the group’s latest attempt to push back plans for a new course in the town of Wilson, Wis.

The former CEO of Kohler Co. took the home-products and design company into the golf business during his 43 years with the company, building four courses at Blackwolf Run and Whistling Straits and buying resort hotel properties in St Andrews, Scotland. He will receive the award named after St Andrews’ long-time superintendent at the Golf Industry Show in San Diego next February.

Contest entrants get a chance to win a trip to the 2015 PGA Championship, August 10-16, at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wis.

The tournament, to be held at Baltusrol GC, will mark the first time since 1971 that the last major of the year will not be played in August.

According to a report by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Kohler Co. has been quiet about a possible addition to the four 18-hole courses it already owns in Wisconsin, neither confirming nor denying a report by the Golf Channel that Pete Dye has assessed a potential golf course property that Kohler has “been sitting on for years.”

Pete Dye, who designed the Kohler, Wis., property’s four other golf courses, is assessing a parcel that could be the site of an additional golf course, noting that owner “Herb [Kohler]’s been sitting on this property for years.” Dye added that Kohler might be ready to “pull the trigger” on the next course, possibly in response to Mike Keiser’s plans for developing golf courses in the Wisconsin Rapids area.

The Tillinghast-designed Black Course on New York’s Long Island will add the events to a major tournament legacy that also includes two U.S. Opens.

Contributor Larry Olmsted compiled the list based on unusual location, historical significance, and the amount of work necessary to transform traditionally unattractive sites (flat desert wasteland, clay and copper mines, and a former cement factory) into acclaimed golf courses.