Landscapes Unlimited founder Bill Kubly led a meaningful project at Monroe Golf Club
Bill Kubly is known as the grandfather of golf course construction. In 1976, he founded Landscapes Unlimited, a longtime leader in golf course construction, renovation and management.
The Lincoln, Neb.-based company’s résumé is extensive and includes work on several major-championship golf courses, including the construction of Erin Hills Golf Course, the public venue in Erin, Wis., that hosted the 2017 U.S. Open. But for Kubly, who turned 75 in July, no project hit closer to home and his heart than the recent bunker renovation he led at Monroe Golf Club in Monroe, Wis., where Kubly grew up.
“The course meant so much to my family and me when I was growing up,” says Kubly, who learned to play golf on the course when it was known as the Monroe Country Club and fondly remembers attending Friday night fish fries at the clubhouse. “The opportunity to enhance it was a dream come true.”
The club, which opened in 1923 as a nine-hole course and added another nine holes about 50 years later, was a mainstay in the small south-central Wisconsin town for many years. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, it was a vibrant club that counted many medical professionals as members.