Golf courses in Wisconsin

Frozen ground takes the Wisconsin golf season away in November and gives it back in April, and the state makes the most of the months between. 480 courses in Wisconsin are mapped in Yardage, the tenth-largest state total and 3.2% of the national catalog, and per resident the state is seventh in the country at 8.04 courses per 100,000 people, one for every 12,443 residents.

Madison leads the city list with 12 mapped courses and Milwaukee has 10, Brown Deer Park, Dretzka and Lincoln Park among them. The resort towns come next: Wisconsin Dells with 9 and Lake Geneva with 8. De Pere, just up the Fox River from Green Bay, has 7. The Lake Michigan shore near Sheboygan and Kohler holds the courses at Whistling Straits and Blackwolf Run, Erin Hills is mapped in Hartford, and Door County’s Peninsula State Park course in Fish Creek is in the catalog too.

Nine-holers are 146 of the 480, a 30.4% share that is 13th nationally, against 334 eighteen-hole courses, and 174 of Wisconsin’s 265 directory towns get by with one course, often a municipal nine like the ones mapped in Grantsburg and Prentice. University Ridge in Verona and the municipal courses in Appleton, Sparta and Madison’s Glenway are mapped as well. The Golf Course Census compares those shares with every other state.

A Dells or Door County trip means a course you have never played; our guide to playing a new golf course covers the first tee. The national directory is the way into the other 49.

Most courses: Madison (12), Milwaukee (10), Wisconsin Dells (9), Lake Geneva (8), De Pere (7).

Population: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates (July 1, 2025) (5,972,787 residents). Counts are courses mapped in Yardage, not an official registry.

Courses by city

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