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MILWAUKEE PLAYER'S CLUB

Play ~ Preserve ~ Provide

ABOUT OUR CLUB

Milwaukee Players Club is an organization formed to preserve, protect and promote Par 3 golf in Milwaukee County.  We are group of individuals that envision our Par 3 courses as places of beauty, fun and community gathering.  Our mission is to promote the growth of golf in Milwaukee County, protect the beauty, integrity and public access to these courses and make positive changes through charitable contributions in our communities that go beyond the public Par 3 golf courses.  As a result, we value an openness for all to our rich natural resources and are not affiliated with any political, religious, cultural or other institutions.  We are self-supporting through our own contributions and are not for profit.  Bottom line, we are a collection of golf enthusiasts who want to serve those in our community through charitable acts and preserve and protect Par 3 golf spaces as a place for all to relax, commune and have fun.

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MISSION STATEMENT

To drive revenue and fulfill the maintenance budget needed to update and maintain our wonderful par 3 county courses...(Doyne, Zablocki, Noyes, Lake, and Madison).  Also, to work with First Tee - Southeast Wisconsin so they can expand their reach into these courses’ communities.      


Step 1 - One BIG ASK of the community - raise awareness and solicit enough funds to get the courses upgraded. Some need new sprinkler systems, green repairs etc. We are currently working on our 501(c)(3) status to allow for tax deductible donations. We have a target list of local businesses and will be actively approaching them and golf enthusiasts this summer to SAVE THESE TREASURED COURSES!


Step 2 - Change the model to ensure money is there each year to pay for maintenance. Currently the courses do not break even and so the park systems cannot fund or staff these courses. The almost $2 million surplus from 2020's record year went to the state and that doesn't make it back to the county. By having a few thousand "members/sponsors" in the community pay $100 a year the money will be available to the park system at the beginning of the golf season and they will have the cash to maintain and update the courses every year.  


Step 3 - Work with First Tee to expand their reach in Southeast Wisconsin.   


If you love these courses and want to help us save them for all their communities' kids and grandkids, please get in touch and spread the word. Click this link to email us at mpcpar3@gmail.com


Thank you and best regards, 

Milwaukee Player's Club

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MPC @ First Tee - Southeast Wisconsin's 100 Holes of Golf Fundraiser - Hansen Park 9/13/20     "Par for 2020"

Like a lot of other things going on in 2020, our first foray into the 100 Holes of Golf was hard to summarize in just one simple narrative.  

 

The conditions were not optimum…playing the familiar back ‘swamp’ nine, no carts, socks soaking wet after the first three holes, mud balls ‘plugging’ on every shot, and the realization that this thing was going to take a good 10 hours if we were really going to play 100 holes.  Besides this, the front nine was literally chock full, and this during a Packers game!  

 

But, dear friends, things also turned out, well….momentous.

 

It started to turn after the turn, when I suggested to Wolf that we play two balls a hole (count each score as a ‘hole’) to speed things up, maybe get done in seven hours as opposed to 11.  This gave us Hope. (To be honest, while it coincided with the rules and we received the blessing of both the president of the league and the host sponsor, I have wondered if we missed out. More on this later.) 

 

Despite my contemplative reflection of the ‘shortcut’, or maybe a continuation of it, I came to another conclusion.  Due to David Cohn reserving the back nine at Hansen for just the First Tee fundraiser, the Wolf and I occupied an entire half of a golf course, for just the two of us.  And while at the time it seemed a little selfish, it actually turned out to be totally awesome. 

 

Two men, walking through puddles, chasing a little white ball for 100 holes has an allure to it.  Something monumental.  Something neither of us had ever done. Fueled by the mist and low clouds flowing around the trees, river, and small hills and probably the several miles we had already walked, four hours into our round it seemed we were the only humans left on the planet, apart from a hallucinogenic vision of a man running through the course who occasionally played through but never spoke a word. (If you don’t believe us, just ask us) Wolf kept meticulous score, counting our strokes and our dots on the four scorecards he kept tucked in his pocket. 

 

Neither of us were certain if it was saving grace, welcome distraction, or disorienting distraction when we saw the welcome smiling faces of our brethren and our sources of motivation at noon who joined us for an hour and a half, updating us on the Packer game, providing needed nourishment, and Bloody Mary’s.  And while every hole was still serious…there were dots on the line, there were holes to be played, there was a cause to serve, and donors to be accountable to; the spell had been broken. The Wolf and I were back to the Real (Covid) World. No more mist, no more running man, no more solitude. It had to happen – “the return”, but there was something special about our first 3 rounds of that back nine – we were in The Zone.  The excitement of friends joining us was both exalting and draining.  There was a life outside of this day of golf.  I think the both of us didn’t really mind living in that bubble of just golf; focus on the hole and hit the stupid little ball.  It was simple. 

 

So did we make the 100 holes?  I’m not quite sure.  We played 100 scores.  I beat the Wolf by the incredibly close score of 339 to 344. We could have kept playing after we hit our quota and I am certain we will do whatever it takes, whatever conditions prevail, through wind or rain and snow to play a proper 100 holes next year.  I have a really cool plaque to place on my desk at work, but I do feel inside that we could have done more.  But that’s not the point.  The point was having all of you supporting us to make a difference for the 1st Tee of Southeast Wisconsin.  The point was raising money to support a cause that is close to our hearts.  We know and trust that was the source of your motivation to support us in this effort.  Being the only two on the course made for an internal struggle on how 100 holes should be played, but I know we will do better next year.  And we hope to see you out there! 

 

Michael "Holy Chip" Smith

2024 Course Schedule

  • 2024 Green Jacket Tournament
    2024 Green Jacket Tournament
    Thu, Sep 26
    Hansen Park Golf Course
    Sep 26, 2024, 3:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Hansen Park Golf Course, 9800 Underwood Pkwy, Wauwatosa, WI 53226, USA
    Sep 26, 2024, 3:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Hansen Park Golf Course, 9800 Underwood Pkwy, Wauwatosa, WI 53226, USA
  • Hansen Park Back 9
    Hansen Park Back 9
    Thu, Sep 19
    Hansen Park Golf Course
    Sep 19, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Hansen Park Golf Course, 9800 Underwood Pkwy, Wauwatosa, WI 53226, USA
    Sep 19, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Hansen Park Golf Course, 9800 Underwood Pkwy, Wauwatosa, WI 53226, USA
  • Noyes Park Golf Course
    Noyes Park Golf Course
    Thu, Sep 12
    Noyes Park Golf Course
    Sep 12, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Noyes Park Golf Course, 8235 Good Hope Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53223, USA
    Sep 12, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Noyes Park Golf Course, 8235 Good Hope Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53223, USA
  • Missing Links Golf Course
    Missing Links Golf Course
    Thu, Sep 05
    Missing Links Golf Course
    Sep 05, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Missing Links Golf Course, 12950 N Port Washington Rd, Mequon, WI 53097, USA
    Sep 05, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Missing Links Golf Course, 12950 N Port Washington Rd, Mequon, WI 53097, USA
  • Hansen Park Front 9
    Hansen Park Front 9
    Thu, Aug 29
    Hansen Park Golf Course
    Aug 29, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Hansen Park Golf Course, 9800 Underwood Pkwy, Wauwatosa, WI 53226, USA
    Aug 29, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Hansen Park Golf Course, 9800 Underwood Pkwy, Wauwatosa, WI 53226, USA
  • Warnimont Golf Course
    Warnimont Golf Course
    Thu, Aug 22
    Warnimont Golf Course
    Aug 22, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Warnimont Golf Course, 5400 S Lake Dr, Cudahy, WI 53110, USA
    Aug 22, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Warnimont Golf Course, 5400 S Lake Dr, Cudahy, WI 53110, USA
  • Noyes Park Golf Course
    Noyes Park Golf Course
    Thu, Aug 15
    Noyes Park Golf Course
    Aug 15, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Noyes Park Golf Course, 8235 Good Hope Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53223, USA
    Aug 15, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Noyes Park Golf Course, 8235 Good Hope Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53223, USA
  • Hansen Park Back 9
    Hansen Park Back 9
    Thu, Aug 08
    Hansen Park Golf Course
    Aug 08, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Hansen Park Golf Course, 9800 Underwood Pkwy, Wauwatosa, WI 53226, USA
    Aug 08, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Hansen Park Golf Course, 9800 Underwood Pkwy, Wauwatosa, WI 53226, USA
  • Lake Park Golf Course
    Lake Park Golf Course
    Thu, Aug 01
    Lake Park Golf Course
    Aug 01, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Lake Park Golf Course, 3133 E Newberry Blvd, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA
    Aug 01, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Lake Park Golf Course, 3133 E Newberry Blvd, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA
  • Missing Links Golf Course
    Missing Links Golf Course
    Thu, Jul 25
    Missing Links Golf Course
    Jul 25, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Missing Links Golf Course, 12950 N Port Washington Rd, Mequon, WI 53097, USA
    Jul 25, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Missing Links Golf Course, 12950 N Port Washington Rd, Mequon, WI 53097, USA
  • Hansen Park Front 9
    Hansen Park Front 9
    Thu, Jul 18
    Hansen Park Golf Course
    Jul 18, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Hansen Park Golf Course, 9800 Underwood Pkwy, Wauwatosa, WI 53226, USA
    Jul 18, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Hansen Park Golf Course, 9800 Underwood Pkwy, Wauwatosa, WI 53226, USA
  • Warnimont Golf Course
    Warnimont Golf Course
    Thu, Jul 11
    Warnimont Golf Course
    Jul 11, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Warnimont Golf Course, 5400 S Lake Dr, Cudahy, WI 53110, USA
    Jul 11, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Warnimont Golf Course, 5400 S Lake Dr, Cudahy, WI 53110, USA
  • Zablocki Park Golf Course
    Zablocki Park Golf Course
    Thu, Jul 04
    Zablocki Park Golf Course
    Jul 04, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Zablocki Park Golf Course, 3798 W Loomis Rd, Greenfield, WI 53221, USA
    Jul 04, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Zablocki Park Golf Course, 3798 W Loomis Rd, Greenfield, WI 53221, USA
  • Noyes Park Golf Course
    Noyes Park Golf Course
    Thu, Jun 27
    Noyes Park Golf Course
    Jun 27, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Noyes Park Golf Course, 8235 Good Hope Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53223, USA
    Jun 27, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Noyes Park Golf Course, 8235 Good Hope Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53223, USA
  • Barn Hollow Golf Course
    Barn Hollow Golf Course
    Thu, Jun 20
    Barn Hollow Golf Course
    Jun 20, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Barn Hollow Golf Course, 7377 Krueger Rd, Lake Geneva, WI 53147, USA
    Jun 20, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Barn Hollow Golf Course, 7377 Krueger Rd, Lake Geneva, WI 53147, USA
  • Hansen Park Back 9
    Hansen Park Back 9
    Thu, Jun 13
    Hansen Park Golf Course
    Jun 13, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Hansen Park Golf Course, 9800 Underwood Pkwy, Wauwatosa, WI 53226, USA
    Jun 13, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Hansen Park Golf Course, 9800 Underwood Pkwy, Wauwatosa, WI 53226, USA
  • Lake Park Golf Course
    Lake Park Golf Course
    Thu, Jun 06
    Lake Park Golf Course
    Jun 06, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Lake Park Golf Course, 3133 E Newberry Blvd, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA
    Jun 06, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Lake Park Golf Course, 3133 E Newberry Blvd, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA
  • Missing Links Golf Course
    Missing Links Golf Course
    Thu, May 30
    Missing Links Golf Course
    May 30, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Missing Links Golf Course, 12950 N Port Washington Rd, Mequon, WI 53097, USA
    May 30, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Missing Links Golf Course, 12950 N Port Washington Rd, Mequon, WI 53097, USA

LEADERBOARD

Golf Iron
Reach but don't touch
Thanks for your service
Hole shot
7 iron
Strike a pose
So close!
Hansen Park
Just a little tappy
The Champ
Never a shortage of laughs
Great pic guys!
Dynamic Duo
First Birdie...ever!
Weather is not a factor
Rain or shine!
Great guys, great times!
Well respected men
2022 Kickoff photo op!
Yes David...those are clubs
Beautiful night for an evening!
Thursday nights don't get much better!
The Final Four
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Chip and the Wolf
Another great season!
Putting

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

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TRI-STATE EQUIPMENT CO., INC.

Oak Creek, WI

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Menomonee Falls, WI

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