Another PGA Question: Who Wants To Return To Whistling Straits?

Definitely not the media!

And the player comments haven't exactly been glowing. Not that this means anything. After all, we know that complaints about a course can often be a compliment to the architecture. But after another four rounds at WS, I'm not sensing it really is worthy of a return visit. Yet a 2015 return date looms and a few days removed from the PGA, I've had the pleasure of listening to several phone rants from folks who found the entire week to be one they'd like to forget.

Most of the bitterness stems, surprisingly, not from the media bus ride but the overall experience. The course marshals topped several lists, with stories of rude treatment toward media and outright outlandish behavior (laughing at one media member who slipped and injured himself?) And we all saw how they handled crowd control.

There was also the oddball stuff about police speed traps and the downright hilarious story of the PGA President getting a ticket outside the American Club for rolling through a stop sign. Let's hope he expenses that one to Herb Kohler.

And then there were also many remarks of surprise that none of the post-2004 issues with spectating had been resolved. To which I reminded these folks that it'll only get more awkward when the USGA goes to Erin Hills and Chambers Bay, each of which is just as difficult to navigate for those outside the ropes, if not more problematic.

But we know our ruling bodies don't care about these things. They care about how much money they can rake in and how much affection they'll get for going to venues with cachet. Yet it seems in the aftermath of the Dustin Johnson escapade and above mentioned items, Whistling Straits has lost its cache as an elite major venue. What can Herb Kohler do, if anything, to restore order?