The bar for public golf in Wisconsin is pretty high now, getting higher. It's a tough room with the likes of Kohler, Sand Valley and Erin Hills on the global sexy end. Plus affordable classic sleepers and super heroes such as Spring Valley and Lawsonia. The growing appreciation of smaller and other classic privates like West Bend, Kenosha, Pine Hills and Stevens Point and some other newbies likely tightened the noose as well.