June 28, 2023
Hi Brett,
Many thanks for your inquiry, we would love to be your resource for all your golf travel needs!
Epic Golf Travel was founded over 25 years ago and our company partners are PGA Professionals who have over 75 years of golf industry and travel experience. We are members of the International Association of Golf Tour Operators (IAGTO), the leading international golf tourism organization, as well as the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA). Our commitment is to deliver an exceptional golf travel experience... every client, every trip, every time.
At Epic Golf Travel, our motto, “The Best Golf Vacations on the Planet”, is our sincere promise to you to deliver an exceptional golf travel experience... every trip you take and every time you take one.
To this end, we spend more hours planning and executing your trip than any other golf tour company in the industry. For those who seek a genuine interest in their golf experience and fanatical attention to detail, we believe you’ll appreciate our absolute commitment to you and your golf travel plans.
The attached confirmed itinerary is based on 12 golfers traveling and includes 5 nights double lodging, 8 full rounds of golf plus 2 par-3 rounds, caddie fees at Erin Hills and The Straits Course, forecaddie & cart fees at The Irish Course and The River Course, and numerous other inclusions listed below.
Your suggested lodging has you staying 1 night in The Lodge at Erin Hills, 2 nights at The Lodge at Sand Valley, and 2 nights at the Inn on Woodlake in Kohler.
Your suggested golf has you playing a total of 8 rounds; Erin Hills Golf Club, Sand Valley GC, Mammoth Dunes GC, Sedge Valley GC, Lido GC, The Straits Course at Whistling Straits, The Irish at Whistling Straits, and The River Course at Blackwolf Run. Also included are rounds on Sand Valley's short course, The Sandbox, and Whistling Straits par-3 course, The Baths. More information on your lodging and golf courses may be found below.
Here is your suggested itinerary:
August 19: Arrive Milwaukee / Transfer to Erin Hills / Golf at Erin Hills at TBD / Overnight at Erin Hills
August 20: Transfer to Sand Valley / Golf at Sand Valley at 12.00pm-12.20pm / Golf at The Sandbox par-3 at 5.30pm-5.54pm / Overnight Sand Valley
August 21: Golf at Mammoth Dunes at 8.05am-8.25am / Golf at Sedge Valley at 2.18pm-2.42pm / Overnight Sand Valley
August 22: Golf at Lido GC at 10.00am-10.20am / Transfer to Whistling Straits / Golf at The Baths par-3 at 5.24pm-5.48pm / Overnight at Inn on Woodlake
August 23: Golf at The Straits Course at 8.31am-8.57am / Golf at The Irish at 2.09pm-2.35pm / Overnight at Inn on Woodlake
August 24: Golf at The River at 8.44am-9.10am / Transfer to Milwaukee Airport / Depart for home
Our prices INCLUDE ALL TAXES AND ANY RESORT OR LODGING FEES, there are no hidden costs of any kind.
Your monies are 100% protected from any COVID related issues. Your trip 
may be rescheduled without penalty should there be any governmental closures, delays or travel bans specific to COVID-19 that affect your lodging or golf.
When you're ready to book, simply click on the "Ready to Book" button and it will walk you through the process of making your deposit and other payments.
I look forward to your thoughts and please reach out with your questions or comments.
Kind regards,
| YOUR TRIP SUMMARY | |
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| DATES: | August 19, 2024 - August 24, 2024 |
| # GOLFERS: | 12 Golfers |
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DAYS/NIGHTS ROUNDS: |
6 Days / 5 Nights / 8+ Rounds |
| GOLF: | 8 full rounds of golf plus 2 par-3 rounds on the courses shown below |
| LODGING: | 1 nights single lodging at Erin Hills, 2 nights single lodging at Sand Valley Resort & 3 nights single lodging at Whistling Straits |
| TRANSPORT: | Private vehicle transfers or car hire can be added at additional cost |
| PRICE: | $5,890.00 USD per person |
| DEPOSIT: | $1,500.00 USD per person |
| TERMS: |
Your trip may be rescheduled with no penalty should there be any governmental closures, delays or travel bans specific to COVID-19 that affect your lodging or golf. Trip cancellation and interruption insurance is available and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. If you choose not to purchase insurance, the Cancellation Policy in the Terms & Conditions section of our website will apply. |
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8 full rounds of golf plus 2 par-3 rounds on the courses shown below |
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1 night double lodging at The Lodge at Erin Hills; 2 nights double lodging at The Lodge at Sand Valley; 2 nights double lodging at Inn on Woodlake in Kohler |
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Club storage, locker room, shoe service & full use of all practice facilities |
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Caddie fees on Erin Hills & The Straits at Whistling Straits included (gratuity not included) |
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Forecaddie & riding cart fees included for The River Course & The Irish Course |
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Gift bag with logo items included from Whistling Straits |
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Full Services of Epic Golf Travel Personnel before, during and after your trip including a web portal for individual online deposit and balance payments, arranging all golf, room, caddie and dinner reservations, rental car requests & airport transfer requests |
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Epic Golf Travel 24/7 Golf Concierge Service |
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Automatic Membership into our Epic Plus Program |
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Our Gold Star Service Pledge |
NOT INCLUDED
Airfare
Caddie Fees (unless noted)
Gratuities
Any golf or lodging not listed above
Any food & beverage not listed above
Any trip incidentals
WHY EPIC GOLF TRAVEL?
WE'VE BEEN THERE
We have real-world experience with each destinations and use our personal journeys to help create your custom trip.
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PGA Professionals and travel industry veterans combine for a perfect blend of golf knowledge and expertise.
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YOUR GOLF COURSES
YOUR GOLF COURSES
ERIN HILLS
Host to the 2011 US Amateur & the 2017 US Open
Opened in 2006 and having already hosted a US Amateur and the US Open, Erin Hills has evolved quickly into a must-play championship venue.
On a rugged landscape formed by glacial action thousands of years ago, little earth was moved when forming the course, resulting in one of the most natural layouts to be found anywhere in the US.
Erin Hills enjoys exceptional terrain for inland links golf, with rolling dune-like hills, golden fescue, and uninhibited views across the course highlighted by a few select trees. The course tends to play hard and fast, reminding you of playing in Scotland or Ireland.
The setting at Erin Hills has a special feeling that is difficult to convey in words; you simply have to experience it for yourself.
SAND VALLEY
Golf Magazine Best New Course 2017
Sand Valley is the fifth course that the firm of Coore and Crenshaw has designed for resort maven Mike Keiser, and the first not located close to an ocean. No matter. It’s still on a thousand acres of rolling sand hills in Central Wisconsin, and Coore and Crenshaw were given carte blanche to route their course.
Given the name, many conclude Sand Valley is a combination of Nebraska’s Sand Hills Golf Club and New Jersey’s Pine Valley. But Sand Valley has its own personality, with some dual fairways, gigantic sand spits, enormous greens and even a hidden putting surface. Sand Valley was Golf Digest’s Best New Course of 2017.
MAMMOTH DUNES
Golf Magazine Best New Course 2018
David McLay Kidd, who designed Bandon Dunes twenty years earlier, began building a second 18 at the resort just before Coore and Crenshaw had completed their 18, Sand Valley. He gave his meandering layout enormous fairways, big accessible greens and visually-unique hillsides of exposed sand, “mammoth dunes” that became the course moniker.
The dune ridge which forms the dominant feature of the course is close to 100 feet high, making the course visually off the charts.
At Mammoth Dunes, Kidd will take you on a journey around a majestic landscape, and along the way his design skews toward helping, which increases thrill and enjoyment.
LIDO GOLF CLUB
Restoration architect Tom Doak
The Lido Golf Club was designed by C.B. Macdonald on the shores of Long Island in 1914. It was considered by many golf historians as one of the greatest golf courses ever created, before it was demolished by the U.S. Navy during World War II.
The Lido course is perhaps the most ambitious project the golf course-developing Keiser family has undertaken. They aim to make an exact recreation of the original course on Long Island, New York, down to bunker positioning, fairway contours, even directional orientation.
The original The Lido Golf Club opened in 1917 and was considered in the same company as Royal Dornoch, Ballybunion, Pine Valley, Shinnecock and National Golf Links as among the best golf course designs in the world. The Keiser family has commissioned Tom Doak to restore The Lido to its original form at Sand Valley.
SEDGE VALLEY
by Tom Doak. Opening 2024.
Sedge Valley blends an intimate piece of Sand Valley’s property, rich with sandy soil, native groundcover and a prominent rock outcropping with a belief long held by Doak – that great golf holes built around the finest green sites and natural features can create a course that is fun and challenging for all players and one that holds up over time with minimal alterations.
A round at Sedge Valley will provide contrast to the broad, links landscape of Coore & Crenshaw’s Sand Valley and to the massive scale and friendly contours of the resort’s second 18-hole course, David McLay Kidd’s Mammoth Dunes. At Sedge Valley, golfers will encounter the timeless strategies and elements of courses that Doak believes have best withstood the endless advances of the game.
THE SANDBOX
The 17-hole short course by Coore & Crenshaw
The Sandbox provides an intimate connection to the sand county landscape of central Wisconsin. Located 50 yards from the Clubhouse and in the backyard of some of the lodges, The Sandbox plays through a restored sand prairie that sits within the same V-shaped sand ridge that frames Mammoth Dunes.
With holes ranging from 40 to 140 yards, the short course features the most unique green complexes on the property, including a biarritz, double plateau, lion’s mouth, and a redan.
Designed to be tackled with just a few clubs, the holes unfold over a sandy tract dotted with native scrub and situated next to the resort’s lodge, so it’s extremely convenient to access—and inspiring to play.
WHISTLING STRAITS: THE STRAITS
18 holes, 72 par, 7,790/7,142/6,663 yards
If you didn’t know the history behind Whistling Straits, you’d believe that the 560-acres of land had been shaped by the hands of time. But you’d be wrong. Whistling Straits was the vision of Herbert V. Kohler, Jnr. who transformed a former airfield into one of the most dramatic courses on the planet.
In 1998, the course opened for play and even Pete Dye thinks that building Whistling Straits was a “once in a lifetime thing”. It took a few million dollars and a Herculean effort to build the incredible Straits course, which is sculpted for two miles alongside the Lake Michigan shoreline.
With an interesting figure of eight routing for both outward and inward nines, the layout is extremely well-balanced and utilizes the topography to its' full effect. Whistling Straits is an architectural engineering work of art and it’s and absolute must-play course.
WHISTLING STRAITS: THE IRISH
18 holes, 72 par, 7,201/6,750 yards
The Straits course gets most of the hype between these two co-located courses due to its major championship pedigree, but The Irish is a treat to play. The second Pete Dye layout at Whistling Straits sits just inland from the Straits, but boasts many of the same incredible features and challenges while still maintaining a personality all its own.
There are many holes that force strategy and some thought off the tee in terms of how aggressive you want to be. Hole 2 is a great example. You can try to be more aggressive off the tee, but you've got water down the left and a bunker on the right that comes into play if hit driver. How much are you willing to risk?
The greens are tricky, but extremely smooth rolling. Bunkers are used strategically in the all the best ways... to challenge you, to deceive you, and to punish you. The bunkers on this course are a little rockier than others in the area... really more waste areas than bunkers. Not many will allow your typical explosion shot. Overall, this course is a treat to play. The facilities are exceptional (as you'd expect) and the staff is very friendly,
BLACKWOLF RUN: THE RIVER
18 holes, 72 par, 7,404/6,865 yards
Designed by Pete Dye, both courses at Blackwolf Run are top notch golf courses but the River course is undoubtedly the flagship layout. There a number of refreshing aspects to playing at Blackwolf Run (apart from the clean, fresh air, of course) - a player may walk while carrying their bag, there are no houses or condominiums adjacent to the property, there is a choice of four tee boxes per hole and the course is kept in immaculate condition – none of which can be said for most resort courses.
Severe elevation changes are a feature as all eighteen holes wind their way round and about natural and man-made water hazards. Precise course management must be used at Blackwolf Run, as a poor decision will cost many shots to par. You could be in another world a long way from Wisconsin on the three holes around the turn on the River course – possibly the finest three at Blackwolf Run.
THE BATHS PAR 3 COURSE
The Baths of Blackwolf Run is a 10-hole, par-3 course that is built on 27 acres between the first and 11th holes of Blackwolf Run’s Meadow Valleys course.
The hole lengths range from 60 to 160 yards, and though the layout features four water hazards (the “baths”), none of them require forced carries to play the hole.
Though the course was designed to be played as a 10-holer, the routing allows for both shorter and longer playing experiences. In addition to the short course, guests can enjoy a two-acre putting course, log cabin food-and-beverage station and ample outdoor seating around a firepit.
YOUR LODGING
YOUR LODGING
THE LODGE AT ERIN HILLS
The Lodge at Erin Hills is just off the 18th green and certainly resembles an Irish country inn, which was the intent, after all.
The Lodge features a variety of room options complete with antique furnishings, Egyptian linens, and private bathrooms. There are also private four bedroom cottages overlooking the golf course on property. Each cottage offers spacious beds, private bathrooms, and a central great room complete with flat screen television, gas fireplace, wet bar, and comfortable seating.
The Lodge is a short walk down a few sets of stairs from the Clubhouse, and is situated between the practice facility and the first tee. The Irish Pub on the first floor has one main bar room, which extends into a back lounge with televisions and poker tables.
The pub leads outdoors to a porch with rocking chairs where you can smoke your cigar and tell tall tales about your shots of the day. You can also enjoy the sunset on the outside patio, which has tables and three fire pits overlooking the first hole.
SAND VALLEY LODGING
Guest Rooms, Suites & Cottages
GUEST ROOMS
With two queen beds and a double vanity sink, each room comfortably sleeps two people or can be reserved by a single guest for a more spacious experience. With lower level rooms opening up to an outdoor porch area, and with upper level rooms offering superb views of Sand Valley or the Par-3 Course, you’ll feel immersed in the nature around you.
SUITES
The suites at Sand Valley are the ideal way to enjoy a getaway to Sand Valley. All suites have spacious bedrooms and common rooms, wet bars and in-room refrigerators, and easy access to outdoor space with fantastic views of the property. Choose from King Suites that accommodate a single or couple guest experience, the luxurious Crenshaw’s Cabin overlooking Sand Valley’s 18th hole or the 4-Bedroom Mammoth Suite, perfect for golf groups.
COTTAGES
The Glacial Lake Cottages serve as a luxurious and comfortable outpost nestled into the rugged sand barrens and oaks that surround them. Located a short walk from the Clubhouse, there cottages provide convenience to the resort's amenities with the privacy needed to enjoy the serene setting. Each provides 4 single bedrooms with a full kitchen, living room, fire pits and outdoor amenities.
THE INN ON WOODLAKE
Well-appointed lakeside property located in Kohler Village, this hotel has a five-star spa and easy access to the four Kohler golf courses.
The Inn on Woodlake blends modern-day ambiance and convenience for golfers visiting Whistling Straits. All 121 rooms feature the signature Kohler shower experience with multiple fixtures. The black-and-white room décor is simple but contemporary: crisp white duvets, upholstered headboards, and white tiled bathrooms.
A five-star spa, complete with a European-inspired swimming pool and the latest in Kohler fixtures, and sports club that features an indoor pool, racquetball courts, and dozens of classes, round out the amenities.
COMMITTED TO THE PERFECT TRIP
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OUR SERVICE PROMISE
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You deserve a trip that is planned and executed perfectly, providing you with memories that last a lifetime.
