‘The best strategy is to have no strategy’

A COMPANY town with a company golf course, almost everything you see in this corner of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin appears to have the name ‘Kohler’ stamped on it, from the bathtubs to the owner of this week’s US PGA Championship venue.

Herb Kohler, the 71-year-old president of the worldwide plumbing products company that bears his family name and is headquartered in the planned community of Kohler, Wisconsin, dotes on the Whistling Straits course on the shores of Lake Michigan as if it were his child.

In fact, asking him for his favourite hole on the 12-year-old 7,362-yard links-style Straits course brings out an impressive level of paternal pride.