So just where is Whistling Straits?
Well, it depends on who you ask.
The Straits Course at Whistling Straits hosts the 43rd Ryder Cup this week and the venue previously staged the 2015 PGA Championship. Some say the course is in the Town of Mosel, a rural/farm community with a population of 839, according to the 2000 census.
The Gannett-owned Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (editor’s note: Gannett also owns Golfweek) is the nearby big-city newspaper and always uses Haven as the dateline in stories covering the course. That decision was made because County Road FF, which ends at the main entrance to Whistling Straits, passes through unincorporated Haven about a quarter mile west of the course.
The Associated Press is using Sheboygan in its datelines, but the Wisconsin golf course is actually several miles north of the Sheboygan city limits.
If you go to the official website for the Ryder Cup, which is run by the PGA of America, Whistling Straits is in Kohler, but Kohler, listed as a village in Sheboygan County, is 10 miles to the south.
The Sheyboygan County Historical Research Center says the settlement of Haven is “located in the Town of Mosel on the western shore of Lake Michigan, Sheboygan County.”
“We call it a ‘rural hamlet,’ ” Dirk Zylman, the Town of Mosel chair, told the Journal Sentinel in 2015. “My predecessor came up with that, and it kind of stuck.”
How many people live in Haven?
“You could almost go out and count them,” he said.
The population of Mosel in 1860 was 977. In 2018, it was 792. But the population isn’t the only thing that’s shrinking. The town has gotten smaller in size because land on the eastern end keeps sloughing off into Lake Michigan.
Some residents grumbled 20 years ago when Kohler Co. and Wisconsin Electric Power Co. agreed to a land swap, with Kohler getting the two-mile stretch along Lake Michigan that became Whistling Straits.
But they had to admit that a world-class golf course beat the alternative. At one point, there were plans to build a nuclear power plant on the land.
The two Whistling Straits golf courses were built on the site of Camp Haven, an anti-aircraft test range from 1949-59.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel contributed to this report.
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