Best Wisconsin Golf Holes: How Voting Works & How to Win

What Best Wisconsin Golf Holes is and who runs it

Best Wisconsin Golf Holes is a reader balloting program that Milwaukee Magazine runs on the magazine's own website. The ballot lives at milwaukeemag.com/best-wisconsin-golf-holes/ and asks the public to weigh in on memorable golf holes at courses around Wisconsin, which places the program in the best-of vertical rather than a business directory format. Milwaukee Magazine publishes from Milwaukee and covers the state, and the program's reach follows that footprint: statewide in subject, anchored to a Milwaukee-based newsroom.

The mechanics are a plain public vote. No outside balloting service stands between the supporter and the magazine; the vote happens on milwaukeemag.com itself. That matters for two practical reasons. First, every instruction a supporter needs is printed on the magazine's own page, so the ballot page is the single authority for how the vote works in the current cycle. Second, the page sits inside the magazine's broader Best of MKE family of coverage, alongside the Best of Milwaukee Readers' Choice program the same publisher runs.

The table below gathers the fixed facts about this golf holes program in one place. Everything in it comes from the ballot page and the program listing; nothing in it depends on a cycle that has not yet been announced.

The dated history of the golf holes ballot

Confirmed editions of Best Wisconsin Golf Holes ran in 2025 and 2026. The 2026 ballot was live on the magazine's own page, which makes the program a recurring fixture rather than a one-off feature. Because the confirmed years run consecutively, an annual rhythm is the pattern the evidence supports, and the next cycle would fall in 2027 if the magazine keeps the schedule.

The voting window falls in April. That month is the confirmed span for the live cycle, and it gives supporters a narrow, predictable stretch in which their votes count. Dates outside that month, including any nomination round or closing day, go unpublished on the golf holes page.

Milwaukee Magazine has not published a per-supporter vote limit, a rule on daily returns or a list of who may take part in the golf holes ballot; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Round dates carry the same caution: the magazine's promotions listings hold no entry for this market, so no platform-side schedule exists to quote. A supporter planning a push should treat the April window as the anchor and read the live page for everything else.

One more dated anchor: the golf holes feature sits on a page whose printed title is "4 of Wisconsin's Most Memorable Golf Holes," a piece framing standout holes from courses around the state.

How a supporter votes on the golf holes page today

Voting in Best Wisconsin Golf Holes is a direct action on the magazine's own site. A supporter loads the ballot page at milwaukeemag.com/best-wisconsin-golf-holes/, reads the featured golf holes coverage, and casts a public vote for a favorite using the controls printed on the page. No outside balloting service, no separate contest domain and no third-party account wall sit between the reader and the vote; the magazine hosts the ballot itself.

Because the ballot is part of Milwaukee Magazine's own coverage, the page also carries the surrounding editorial context: the golf holes feature sits among the magazine's sports and Best of MKE coverage, and the same navigation leads to the Best of Milwaukee Readers' Choice ballot. A supporter who lands on the golf holes page from a search result can verify at a glance that they are on the magazine's domain rather than a lookalike.

What the page does not settle in advance is repetition. Whether a supporter may return the next day and vote again is a rule the magazine leaves off the golf holes page, so the safe reading is that the page's own instructions govern in the cycle you are voting in. The same applies to any account requirement: the public-vote format implies an open ballot, but the printed page is the authority, not an assumption carried over from another program.

How this ballot sits beside its Wisconsin neighbours

Best Wisconsin Golf Holes is unusual among Wisconsin ballots on this site because of its subject. The sibling programs are city and regional best-of contests: Best of the Valley in Appleton, Best of Madison, the Best of Milwaukee Readers' Choice ballot, the Eau Claire Reader's Choice Awards, Best of the Bay in Green Bay and Janesville CommunityVotes. Each of those asks readers to pick favorites across many local business and service categories in one market. The golf holes ballot narrows the question to a single subject, memorable golf holes, and widens the geography to the whole state.

The closest relative is the Best of Milwaukee Readers' Choice program, which shares Milwaukee Magazine as its publisher. Sharing a publisher does not make them one program: the golf holes ballot has a page, subject and cycle of its own, and a vote on one carries no weight on the other. A reader who wants the magazine's full best-of ballot should use the Readers' Choice route; a reader who cares only about golf courses should stay on the golf holes page.

For the other siblings, the difference is geographic and structural. Madison, Appleton, Eau Claire, Green Bay and Janesville each answer to their own local organizers, while this ballot answers to a single statewide magazine. That makes it the natural stop for a golfer whose favorite course sits outside any one of those city limits.

Strengthening support in the golf holes vote

Support in this ballot means getting golfers to the magazine's own page and voting there. Because the vote happens on milwaukeemag.com, a course or a fan rallying support should send people straight to the ballot URL during the April window rather than to a summary of it. The magazine has not printed a rule on outside campaigns, so the practical ceiling is whatever the live page allows in the current cycle.

For a broader look at methods that work on public ballots, see our guide at getting more votes online, and for the award-ballot service tiers, the award votes page explains the options. Nothing on this page promises an outcome; the ballot's own printed rules decide what counts.