The course grew out of a 1913 request from the Ephraim Men's Club to set aside Peninsula State Park land for golf. It began with six holes, had nine holes with sand greens by 1923, reached 18 holes in the early 1930s and was redesigned in the 1960s. A Potawatomi memorial pole went up beside the first and ninth fairways in 1927, and Chief Kahquados was buried nearby in 1931. The nonprofit Peninsula Golf Associates has run the course since 1982.