Golf Courses of Lawsonia

The Links Course at Lawsonia officially opened on Memorial Day 1930, the work of William Langford and Theodore Moreau on the sprawling Green Lake, Wisconsin estate of late Chicago publisher Victor Lawson. Built with 1920s-era steam shovels, it is a Golden Age gem defined by bold, man-made geometry: massive elevated green pads, steep angular slopes, and deep, sharply cut fairway bunkers that give the layout its unmistakable muscular look. Local lore holds that the raised par-three seventh green was formed by piling earth over an old railroad boxcar. Long a darling of architecture enthusiasts for its wide, firm, Scottish-feeling playing corridors, the Links has endured as one of the Midwest's finest and most affordable Golden Age designs, remaining remarkably intact nearly a century after it was built.