Such a wonderful property in the driftless area with architectural building marvels all around, including The House on The Rock and Frank Lloyd Wrights Taliesin. If only the courses could match those high bars set.

Instead of a new resort, I would love someone to invest here. It has the hotel, spa, theatre and numerous other area activities in place and would make for a great family/sspouse trip too.

The course conditions were at best on par with a local Madison municipal course and parts of the course were flooded and overgrown with brush. The bunkers were nearly unplayable as they alternated between way too much sand, and almost none. Many tee shots are made extremely hard, especially from the tips, from unkept and overgrown trees.

While the layout is a classic Robert Trent Jones Sr design, with big greens and many doglegs, it lacks any charm to make it truly special. Many of the holes blur together and the only notable/interesting feature of the course is the shared green on 9/18.

For a local municipal course, this would be a great track. However for a resort with $90 of greens fees, it is remarkably underwhelming. Maybe in years past the course would be worthwhile, but in its current state I would not recommend taking the trip.

A far better course in the area is Deer Valley in Barneveld. While the conditions are nothing to write home about, it is one of the most unique courses I’ve ever played. The elevation changes are unlike any other course and you can routinely find tee times for $30.

As of this writing, the conditions are very poor (worse than any Milwaukee country course by far), with the bunkers being especially atrocious and largely unplayable. Greens are quite slow; dead spots in fairways and tees (and some greens). It's not at all what one would expect for a "resort" course at the price of $80.

As for the layout, it is in a very peaceful and beautiful spot, with pretty views all over the course. Your milage will vary on the layout depending on your view of Jones Sr. courses, but it is quite typical of his designs: big greens, lots of dog leg holes, big bunkers built into mounds, hard par / easy bogey strategic options. It's a very average layout on a very gorgeous piece of property.

I would have loved to see this course in its prime. Right now, it is terribly overgrown to the point where a number of holes are stupidly tight. A substantial tree removal or at least pruning is desperately needed here. There are just too many places where good shots will be completely dead and there doesn't even seem to be a way to navigate the overgrown trees.

I am baffled as to why this course is on this list of best in Wisconsin. There is no way it should be, and I can only imagine the Jones Sr. name keeps it here. That far, far better courses like Racine C.C., Thornberry, Mascoutin, Hawks Landing, and even Brown Deer are not on this list and House on the Rock is makes me scratch my head.

Not very long at just under 6500 from the tips. The course if very serene. It's located far from any major roads so the only sounds will be birds and the wind. The course winds nicely beneath the small mountains of the Driftless Area with some nice small creeks running through it and water does come into play on multiple holes. Several holes give you a challenging presentation off the tee and the many doglegs (seems like all doglegs) challenge your distance control. There aren't many fairway bunkers but each green complex has sand to navigate. One issue is that there's a few holes where the trees have grown to an extent that they force your hand or limit your options off the tee. I would definitely play here again.