Close your eyes. Listen carefully with the mind's ear. New Glarus, WI 53574
You just might hear the pipes! (608)527-6366
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Can YOU play the Argue-Ment with just one ball? Each month we invite our players to attempt to play our 9-hole course using just one golf ball. Our naturalized layout makes succeeding at this a challenge, requiring careful playing and strategy.
Visit us and take the challenge. All who succeed get entered in a monthly drawing to win a fun prize!
Honor the land and the game!
Some comments from our golfers:
"I really enjoyed your course. It possessed true character that all to often eludes our newer, bigger, more modern courses. The par 4 'County Line' was by far the highlight for me. Appropriately named, I must add. Like I said before, it was raining and very foggy, which always adds a cool visual element to a course. However that hole, on that day, made such a huge impression me. Just such a good looking hole, visually beautiful. It had the feeling of a great US Open styled hole, American golf, big, epic. It had an old classic feel to it, looked old, like it had always been there." ~ BDR
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"I played your course for the first time tonight. I didn't know what to expect when I decided on a whim to give it a try. I was extremely impressed by the beautiful landscape and challenging course. The small sloping greens require more strategy to approach than your typical course, and the length, elevation changes, and subtle doglegs were pleasant surprises. It was a refreshing round of golf for me compared to the over-manicured, over-priced courses I typically play. I found your website when I got home, and I have to say you did a good job of implementing your philosophy of honoring the land. I will be back." ~ MT
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Abili-tees: Know your personal yardage goals!
Play from tees that allow you to hit irons into the greens.
We have noticed that most casual golfers overestimate their ability, based on the mistaken notion that it isn't "Manly" to play a shorter tee, or that it somehow breaks the rules to play from a forward tee. Yes, long golf course tees are a challenge. However, it is not much fun to struggle on every hole and lose balls because of over-swinging. (We see that a lot at Argue-ment.)
Experiment. Try playing the course from a tee that will allow you to shoot par. Keep moving forward until you get there, even if you have to tee it up ahead of the most forward tee. Once you have built the skills to do that you can begin to lengthen your course of play by moving to a more challenging tee.
Golf is the only game that encourages you to play at a level that is fun and competitive across skill levels because of the different tee lengths and the handicap system. You are cheating yourself, not the game, when you frustrate yourself by playing to your ego rather than toward building on your current skill.
Mark Renner
Course designer, Co-owner, and President Argue-ment Golf Course, Inc.
- We believe a golf course should drape on the natural landscape the way a favorite golf sweater drapes on the shoulders. In laying out this course we tried to translate the feeling of a Scottish highlands community course to Wisconsin dairy country, using the lay of the land and its vegetation as the primary challenge.
- Five sets of tees allow an enjoyable experience for golfers of all skill levels. The "way back" tees will give your USGA Handicap game all it can handle, placing a premium on carry distance, shotmaking strategy, and accuracy. Standard, Executive, and Forward tees are available for less demanding rounds. We do not have "men's" and "ladies" tees. We call ours "Abili-tees."
- We space our tee times at 12 minute intervals, recognizing that we will have players of varying skills on the course at all times. We rely on "real" golfers to be courteous enough not to push and not to hold each other up. You will not be required to form a foursome with others if you come as a single or couple. Some, especially new golfers, are not comfortable playing with people they don't know. We honor that.
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Our club house is basic--a check-in desk, restrooms, and a modest inventory of basic golf supplies, snack foods and soft drinks.
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You are welcome to bring your own food and beverages. (Adult beverages require adult behavior!) If you are looking for lunch or dinner after your round, ask us for a recommendation to one of the many excellent dining facilities in New Glarus, Belleville, or Monticello.
- Power carts are available, though the course is readily walkable! We rent full and partial sets of adult clubs, children's clubs for ages 3 to 12 are available free of charge.
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A grass tee practice area and a large practice green area are adjacent to the #1 tee. For more details on our practice area, click here.
Course design notes
Course design, construction and maintenance is undertaken by the owners, extended family and friends. Bent-grass greens, bluegrass and fescue fairways and tees are used throughout. It is--and always will be--a work of love in progress (both of the land and the game). We minimize pesticide and herbicide to enable as many people as possible to enjoy the course without fear of risk.
The course is currently nine holes, with unused portions farmed in a corn/soybean rotation, or left fallow in tall grasses. There is room for 18. We wrestle with the notion of expansion. Can it be done without violating the core simplicity of what we are attempting to accomplish? Can we continue to provide family affordable golf if we do so? Some tell us that 9 holes isn't really a golf course. Some think of home built, country tracks as "pitch and putt" sites. Usually those same people come into the clubhouse muttering, "Holy..... This place was way more than I expected."
(Check out our "Family tees for your little ones and beginners.) Children are always welcome under proper supervision of adults. We do not charge for non golfing riders or walkers. Sooner or later they will be bitten by the bug and then we have them!
Our reason for being
"The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world and those who dwell therein. For it was he who founded it upon the seas and planted it firm upon the waters beneath." (From the Book of Psalms of the Bible, chapter 24)
A round of golf can be a metaphor for the business of living. As with life, golf is not easy. We come to a point in our lives with tools and skills to do the best we can. Sometimes it is in competition. Sometimes it is solitary pursuit of excellence. Sometimes it is to renew the self or a relationship. The experience is always transient. Over time, we discover both limits and successes. No experiences are repeatable, except in flawed memory. We discover that we are not in control of everything, even when we are good at some things.We have borrowed these acres for part of a lifetime. What we have done with them, in framing their use as a golf course, we hope will be a source of celebration of God’s goodness. What you do with them, during your round, we hope will be a celebration of companionship, competition, skill building, self awareness, and the joy of personal achievement. In that way, on this golf course anyway, God’s name may be invoked in wonder and praise on occasion, rather than always in frustration.
New Glarus, Wisconsin 53574
(608) 527-6366
email: argue-ment_9@tds.net
