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Herb Kohler, executive chairman of Kohler Co. who put Wisconsin on the golf map, dies at 83

Herbert V. Kohler, Jr., a business titan who fortified his family’s namesake manufacturing firm and put Wisconsin on the world golf stage with the creation of a course named Whistling Straits, has died.

Kohler was 83 when he died Saturday.

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