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1~18 Course

Rolling Meadows Golf Club

Fond du Lac, WI, USA
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18 holesPar 726,990 yds

About this course

Rolling Meadows Golf Club occupies gently rolling terrain in Fond du Lac, a city situated along the southern shore of Lake Winnebago in east-central Wisconsin. Dick Nugent, a Chicago-based architect who designed or renovated more than fifty courses across the Midwest during his career, laid out the course. Nugent's work typically emphasizes strategic variety and playability across different skill levels, with routing that follows natural land contours rather than imposing dramatic earthwork. The course reflects the agricultural and glacial landscape common to this part of Wisconsin, where modest elevation changes and open meadow areas alternate with wooded corridors. Fond du Lac's position in the Fox River valley and its proximity to Lake Winnebago influence the local climate and growing conditions, supporting the bentgrass fairways and greens typical of the region. Nugent's design philosophy generally favored clear sightlines and straightforward hole presentations, allowing golfers to assess risk and reward without excessive visual deception. Rolling Meadows serves as a daily-fee facility, providing public access golf in a community where private clubs have historically dominated the established golf scene. The course caters to a mix of local residents and visitors exploring the Lake Winnebago area, offering a standard eighteen-hole round in a setting that balances accessibility with the design principles Nugent applied throughout his portfolio. The layout represents the kind of regional course development that expanded golf participation across smaller Midwestern cities during the latter decades of the twentieth century.

Quick facts

Location
Fond du Lac, WI, USA
Access
Public
Year built
1996
Designer
Dick Nugent
Holes
18
Par
72
Length
6,990 yards

Getting there

The journey to Rolling Meadows Golf Club begins at either Milwaukee's General Mitchell International Airport or Appleton International, each roughly an hour's drive from Fond du Lac. The route north from Milwaukee traces the western shore of Lake Winnebago along Highway 41, where the urban sprawl gradually yields to Wisconsin's signature patchwork of dairy farms and rolling glacial terrain. As you approach Fond du Lac - the "bottom of the lake" in French - the landscape opens into gentle swells of farmland and meadow, the kind of honest, unpretentious countryside that has quietly nurtured Midwestern golf for generations, before delivering you to Rolling Meadows' welcoming grounds on the city's edge.

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Common questions about 1~18 at Rolling Meadows Golf Club

Ratings, design, and course details pulled from Course Vaults.

1~18 was designed by Dick Nugent.

Yes. 1~18 at Rolling Meadows Golf Club is listed as welcoming public or guest play on Course Vaults.

Par at 1~18 is 72.

1~18 plays 6,990 yards from the back tees on Course Vaults.

1~18 is a 18-hole course.

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