Wisconsin is at the center of the sports world this week, as Erin Hills Golf Course hosts the 2017 U.S. Open Championship. Its picturesque rolling hills and vast green fairways exemplify the stunning visual aesthetic of the grand tournament and are sure to capture the attention of both live spectators and TV viewers.
But you don’t want to wait for Thursday; you want to see the course now!
Well, you can, thanks to this spectacular bird’s-eye video from MKE Drones, one of the only drone companies that was allowed to fly at Erin Hills.
The U.S. Open, the second of the sport’s four major championships, tees off on Thursday morning and continues at the 11-year-old course through Sunday.
Stay tuned to OnMilwaukee for golf coverage from Erin Hills all week.
Born in Milwaukee but a product of Shorewood High School (go ‘Hounds!) and Northwestern University (go ‘Cats!), Jimmy never knew the schoolboy bliss of cheering for a winning football, basketball or baseball team. So he ditched being a fan in order to cover sports professionally - occasionally objectively, always passionately. He's lived in Chicago, New York and Dallas, but now resides again in his beloved Brew City and is an ardent attacker of the notorious Milwaukee Inferiority Complex.
After interning at print publications like Birds and Blooms (official motto: "America's #1 backyard birding and gardening magazine!"), Sports Illustrated (unofficial motto: "Subscribe and save up to 90% off the cover price!") and The Dallas Morning News (a newspaper!), Jimmy worked for web outlets like CBSSports.com, where he was a Packers beat reporter, and FOX Sports Wisconsin, where he managed digital content. He's a proponent and frequent user of em dashes, parenthetical asides, descriptive appositives and, really, anything that makes his sentences longer and more needlessly complex.
Jimmy appreciates references to late '90s Brewers and Bucks players and is the curator of the unofficial John Jaha Hall of Fame. He also enjoys running, biking and soccer, but isn't too annoying about them. He writes about sports - both mainstream and unconventional - and non-sports, including history, music, food, art and even golf (just kidding!), and welcomes reader suggestions for off-the-beaten-path story ideas.
