Blackwolf Run (Meadow Valleys)

The 2012 U.S. Women’s Open was held at Blackwolf Run and the Championship course comprised the back nine of the Meadow Valleys layout (which features water on the last three holes) plus holes 1-4 and 14-18 of the River course.

In The American Private Golf Club Guide, author Daniel Wexler writes: “The club’s older course is the Meadow Valleys, a long and difficult track which occupies open land on the property’s west side, and makes a brief late visit to the Sheboygan River.

The front nine starts in relatively tame fashion before reaching a powerful closing stretch that includes the 520-yard 7th (enlivened by a centreline bunker and a water guarded green), the 240-yard lake-flanked 8th and 485-yard par four 9th.

The back nine also closes with a vengeance, with late standouts including the 550-yard 17th (whose green angles behind a deep, 95-yard-long bunker) and the 458-yard 18th, which requires a long final approach across the river.”