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Cottage Grove sits just southeast of Madison, in the gentle rolling terrain of Dane County where glacial activity left behind a landscape of modest hills, open meadows, and the kind of natural contour that gives Midwestern golf its quiet, unhurried character. The Oaks occupies this setting as a public layout serving the eastern Madison suburbs — the sort of course where regulars know the rhythms of the greens before they reach the first tee.
The par-71 configuration suggests at least a handful of par-4s doing the work that might elsewhere fall to par-5s, which typically rewards strategic ball-strikers over pure length and keeps rounds accessible without feeling toothless. Public golf in the Madison area benefits from a genuinely engaged local golfing culture — Wisconsin players tend to squeeze every round they can out of the season between snowmelt and the first hard freeze.
Without knowing the specific architect or founding history here, what's reliable is this: a course called The Oaks in this part of Wisconsin almost certainly earns the name, with mature hardwoods shaping sight lines, framing autumn color in September and October, and reminding you that the upper Midwest has its own version of golf's most beautiful time of year.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet · men | 6,763 | 72.6 | 134 | 71 |
| Black · men | 6,312 | 70.6 | 129 | 71 |
| Blue · men | 6,011 | 69.2 | 126 | 71 |
| Blue · women | 6,011 | 74.6 | 134 | 71 |
| White · men | 5,615 | 67.4 | 123 | 71 |
| White · women | 5,615 | 72.4 | 130 | 71 |
| Green · women | 5,071 | 69.3 | 123 | 71 |
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