Sand Valley Golf Resort - Sedge Valley

Nekoosa, WI · 0.4 mi away

The Sandbox is a 17-hole short course at Sand Valley Resort in Nekoosa, Wisconsin, located a short walk from the resort's clubhouse and lodges. It was designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw with Jim Craig and opened to the public in 2018, occupying a restored sand prairie within the same sand ridge that frames the resort's Mammoth Dunes course. Holes range from about 40 to 140 yards and borrow from classic template concepts, including green complexes styled after the Biarritz, Redan, and Lion's Mouth. The compact routing allows a round to be finished in under two hours and can be played entirely with a putter or a few short clubs, making it accessible to golfers of any skill level playing alongside stronger players. As part of the Sand Valley resort, access is tied to resort guests and members rather than unrestricted daily-fee public play, and green fees are notably lower than the resort's full-length courses.

Nekoosa, WI · 0.4 mi away

The Lido at Sand Valley Golf Resort in Wisconsin opened in 2023 and is unlike anything else in American golf: it is a reconstruction of a course that no longer exists. C.B. Macdonald's original Lido Club, built on Long Island in 1917 on sand pumped from a bay, was lost during the Second World War. The rebuild was made possible by Peter Flory, who spent years assembling a digital model of the original from aerial photographs, Macdonald's written plans and period accounts. Tom Doak, with Brian Schneider and Brian Slawnik, then built that model into the sand barrens at Nekoosa, hole for hole and contour for contour. The result includes Macdonald's template holes and several concepts that had disappeared from golf entirely, among them the Channel hole, where golfers choose how much of a diagonal carry to take on off the tee. It is walking only, and the scale of the greens and bunkers reflects 1917 design rather than modern practice.

Nekoosa, WI · 0.4 mi away

Mammoth Dunes at Sand Valley Golf Resort in Nekoosa, Wisconsin, was designed by David McLay Kidd and opened in 2018 as the resort's second course. The site is an inland sand barren left by a glacial lake, and Kidd built the course to be enjoyable rather than punishing. Fairways are among the widest in American golf, some more than 100 yards across, and the greens are large with open fronts, so most approach shots can be run in along the ground. Sand blowouts and native scrub line the holes, and the elevation change through the dunes is substantial. The short par-4 14th, drivable for many golfers, is one of the most discussed holes at the resort. Sand Valley is a walking resort with caddies. Mammoth Dunes sits alongside the original Sand Valley course by Coore and Crenshaw, the Lido, the Sandbox short course and Sedge Valley.