Why are so many older and traditional courses omitted from the Trail?
Tom Weiskopf once said that “the best golf courses ever built are the ones being built right now.” The designs and construction methods of modern courses are hard to match by ones built only thirty to sixty years ago. Even the venerable Augusta National has had to make serious changes to keep up with the times. But that is not to say that an older course is automatically out of the running. Cog Hill, Fowler’s Mill and Whirlpool, are fine examples of older tracks that are still up to the test and still provide the golfing experience that the Great Lakes Golf Trail golfer expects. It really is not that we omit older courses, it is more that there are so many new great courses that push the limits.
