The Bog

Arnold Palmer Course Design fashioned The Bog in Saukville, Wisconsin — opening play in June 1995 after construction began in late 1993 — on a parcel adjacent to the Cedarburg Bog, one of the Midwest's most ecologically significant wetlands. The course worked with the existing bog, wetlands, elevation changes, trees, and natural grass lands rather than bulldozing them flat. The Bog was one of the first golf courses in Wisconsin to ban metal spikes and among the first to build greens to United States Golf Association specifications — a forward-looking conditioning standard at its opening. Located halfway between downtown Milwaukee and Kohler, and just south of Erin Hills (US Open 2017 host) — The Bog sits at the geographic center of eastern Wisconsin's best golf. Peak green fee runs $85-145 depending on season. Fits an Erin Hills or Kohler trip as the 'Arnold Palmer card in the middle of the Wisconsin corridor' round between premium resort stops.