Kenosha Country Club

One of only two Donald Ross-designed courses in Wisconsin, Kenosha’s holes crisscross over 175 acres a gently fractured land, leaping and sashaying along the ever-bending crooks of Pike Creek. To coincide with the 100-year anniversary, the club hired architect Drew Rogers to implement a long-range restoration plan to return the course as close as possible to its 1922 version, a process that included the removal of hundreds of mature trees to expand fairways and better emulate the property’s original meadow complexion. Roger slowly recaptured the green perimeters as first outlined by Ross and construction partner Walter Hatch, added and rebuilt bunkers based on firsthand sketches and 1920s photography (many bunkers had been filled in), and added prairie grass buffers for added color and texture. The result is a 2024 version of the course that might make Ross think that almost no time had passed, certainly not a century of growth and change.