Spring Valley Country Club

Salem, Wisconsin

The course architects, Langford and Moreau, built Spring Valley CC just before building what is believed to be their crowning achievement, Lawsonia CC, near Green Lake WI. Anyone who has played Lawsonia, ranked in the Top 100 public courses in the U.S. can see the similarities. Langford and Moreau builders of over 200 courses, mostly throughout the Midwest, believed that par should be protected near the green. Toward that end, the fairways are generous, the greens are multi-layered and guarded by steep grass faced bunkers. Though the original plan called for 65 sand bunkers, the course's first owner chose to leave them grass filled which has been honored to this day by the family that has owned the course since 1959.