Erin Hills is what happens when you give three architects a glacier-carved landscape and tell them to build something worthy of a US Open. The 2017 host sits on 650 acres of Wisconsin kettle moraine — massive fairways, fescue rough that swallows golf balls whole, and a scale that makes you feel small in the best way. It's walking-only, which is the only way to experience terrain this dramatic. Brooks Koepka won here at 16-under, but don't let that fool you — the course can play brutally long (over 7,800 yards from the tips), and the wind decides what kind of day you're having. It's not a course you play casually. It's a course you make a pilgrimage for.
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Public, walking-only. ~45 minutes from Milwaukee. Peak rates ~$340 with significant discounts for Wisconsin residents. Caddie strongly recommended. Book months in advance for summer weekends. On-site lodge available. The Drumlin putting course next door is worth arriving early for.