EDGERTON — At the southern edge of this small southern Wisconsin community is a sign honoring its two most famous favorite sons.

I’d been noodling some design ideas for a new driver — racing stripes along the side, maybe, or little wings to accentuate the need for speed —because the last guy I spoke with about driver design called the experience a real life changer.

A golf publication based in the United Kingdom has cast a favorable eye on recent developments in Central Wisconsin and, for a change, the focus wasn’t on Sand Valley or SentryWorld.

Recently a newspaper summed up the soggy travails of Wisconsin farmers during the 2018 growing season. The wettest summer in 20 years, marked by too many serious weather events, left corn in the worst condition in five years. Rainfall was above average in all nine state agriculture districts…

Every golfer has a big umbrella for those rainy summer days (at least every golfer who remembers to take it out of the trunk).But what about an umbrella for golf clubs?The Drizzle Stik, now sporting a convenient flex shaft, offers the perfect protection for wet weather golf. The shaft telesc…

It’s fine to leave your golf clubs in the trunk of your car during the season but what to do with them when the snow flies? Organize them.The Suncast dual golf gear organizer has room for two standing golf bags, along with additional shelves for shoes, boxes of balls and other gear.Made of d…

Not many golfers have the game to warrant showing up at the course with a room-sized staff bag, but a pint-sized staff bag would please any golfer on your list.The Vessel Den Caddy, styled after the company’s original staff bag, would work as a shag bag at the driving range or serve as a whi…

The next Ryder Cup competition won’t take place until 2020 at Wisconsin’s Whistling Straits golf course, but it’s never too early to give Ryder Cup apparel to everyone on your gift list. And we mean everyone!For women, the Nike 2020 Ryder Cup Half-Zip Performance Pullover Jacket comes in, na…

The duffer on your list may never win as many golf tournaments as Jack Nicklaus but perhaps the Golden Bear's socks will inspire a little better play.Well, they're not actually Jack’s socks. But the Jack Nicklaus Green Socks by Stance are every bit as colorful and fun as socks get, sporting …

Assuming you are not buying a gift for recently ousted coach Mike McCarthy this Christmas, consider giving the Packer lover in your life a set of three Green Bay Packers Contour Golf Club head covers.Or a Packers six-can shaft cooler for those cold ones from the clubhouse. Or a Packer flag f…

Forget long drives. The easiest way to shoot lower golf scores is to make more putts.And the easiest way to make more putts is to practice. Give your golfer the key to a better game with the SKLZ Accelerator Pro Putting Mat, a 9-foot putting surface perfect for practicing those 3-, 5- and 7-…

Don’t take your daughter to work, take her to watch golf.Thornberry Creek at Oneida Golf Course is not only the official course of the Green Bay Packers, and not only a winner of the Golf Course Owners Association of Wisconsin Course of the Year honors for 2018 (though it is both of those). …

Sure, you could mark your ball on the green with a picked-up penny and fix ball marks with a broken tee, but why not add a touch of class to both tasks?The Birdicorn 6-in-1 Divot Tool is a lightweight aluminum divot tool, yes, but it is also a ball marker holder, a ball line stencil, putt al…

Start listing the most revered names in golf — Snead, Palmer, Nicklaus, Woods — and before you know it you’ll arrive at Carl Spackler, the Bushwood Country Club greenskeeper of Cinderella story fame.The line of William Murray golf hats includes the Carl Bucket Hat, a reversible lid you’ll be…

Golf isn’t a sport that lends itself easily to tail-gating, but the hottest game in tailgating now pairs nicely with golf. Introducing Chippo, “the glorious lovechild of golf and cornhole.”Chippo can be played in the backyard or at the beach, or wherever you find room to chip golf balls off …

First in a series of 2018 holiday gift ideas for the golfer on your list.

Charlie DeSmidt was just 24 when he bought the nine-hole Hi-View Golf Course in Crivitz in 1989 and, nearly 30 years later, he and his wife, Colleen, still own and operate what is now the 18-hole DeSmidt’s Golf Course.

A state line resort that boasts a golf course with multiple five star ratings will get a much needed facelift, thanks to a new ownership group, while a nearby shuttered resort with a modest nine-hole layout that has gone back to nature will be reborn.

Wisconsin’s centerfold golf courses, those celebrated layouts that host major tournaments and draw golfers from across the land, get a lot of attention, for good reason. But this state is blessed with many more deserving golf destinations any state golfer would enjoy experiencing. In this on…

Wisconsin’s centerfold golf courses, those celebrated layouts that host major tournaments and draw golfers from across the land, get a lot of attention, for good reason. But this state is blessed with many more deserving golf destinations any state golfer would enjoy experiencing. In this on…

Last year, Golf Advisor named Wisconsin the No. 1 golf destination in 2017, ahead of such dimple-centric sites as Central Florida, Indiana, Phoenix-Scottsdale and — wait for it — Ireland.