Play Erin Hills Golf Course Like You've Seen It 100 Times
Download a mobile-friendly and printable hole-by-hole Playbook built from the firsthand knowledge of local caddies who know the course best.
This is NOT a yardage book. A CaddyTips® Playing Guide is a true caddy's playbook, providing hole-by-hole strategy, local insights, and course management advice that tells you where to aim, what to avoid, and how to think your way around the course—before you ever step onto the first tee.
Whether you're a low-, mid-, or high-handicap golfer, every guide includes strategic advice tailored to golfers of all skill levels, helping you make smarter decisions, play with greater confidence, shoot lower scores, and enjoy every round more.
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✅ Built alongside one of Wisconsin's premier caddies✅ Tailored for Low-, Mid- & High-Handicap golfers
✅ Precise tee-shot targets using native fescue, rolling terrain, strategic bunkers, and local aiming points you won't find on a yardage book
✅ Approach shot guidance revealing the best angles into Erin Hills' expansive greens and the safest misses around every pin location
✅ Professional green-reading insights explaining how Erin Hills' massive putting surfaces, subtle slopes, and championship contours influence every putt
✅ Hidden local knowledge, wind strategy, and confidence-building advice to help you avoid big numbers and play this U.S. Open venue the way local caddies do
Built By Local Caddies
Built alongside one of Erin Hill's trusted regular caddies, this Playing Guide captures the local knowledge, subtle strategies, ideal targets, green-reading insights, and hidden nuances that only come from years of looping the course.
Designed for Every Skill Level
Whether you're a low-, mid-, or high-handicap golfer, every Playing Guide includes advice tailored to your game. From aggressive lines for accomplished players to smarter, safer strategies that eliminate big numbers, you'll know exactly how to approach every hole with confidence.
Here is a snippet from Erin Hills Golf Course CaddyTips®
HOLE 1 - THREE SHOTS TO THE MARSH EDGE
Wetland left all the way · The green juts into it
Par 5 - 552 / 516 / 485 yds
Tee Shot
Erin Hills governs all eighteen holes with the same three rules. One: the ground is firm and never flat, so the ball keeps moving after it lands — often a long way, often sideways. Your carry number is only half the calculation. Two: the fairways are enormous, 40 to 70 yards across, but the fine fescue outside them is a hazard rather than rough. Three: the greens are bent grass, firm and tightly mown. Grain is a minor factor next to slope — on every green here, gravity is the story and grain is a footnote.
There are no trees, and the routing turns through most of the compass — the wind on this tee is a different wind by the 5th and different again by the 12th. The 3rd normally plays into the prevailing breeze and the 5th down it; those are your calibration points. Re-read it on every tee. In 2017 this course gave up a record 31 under par totals across three near-calm rounds, then became the most demanding scoring day of the championship the moment Sunday gusted to 15–20 mph.
Pre-round tip: walk up to the high ground by the Lodge before you tee off. You can see the 1st, the 18th and much of the middle of the course — and you are reading which way the fescue lies, which tells you what the wind is doing across the whole property rather than just at the clubhouse.
The hole is a genuine three-shotter with wetland down the entire left side and a bunker guarding the right. Avoid: the wetland left — it is a hazard, not a recovery. The fairway between them is generous, so this is about picking a side.
Low Handicap: driver at the right center, favoring the bunker side to shorten the angle in.
Mid & High Handicap: 3 wood or hybrid down the right half — you are playing three shots regardless, so take the water entirely out of play.
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