Hartford Golf Club

Getting To Know: Hartford Golf Club

An Insightful Interview With Bill Rabuck, PGA General Manager

By Brian Weis

Whether you have played a course 20+ times a year or looking to play the course for the first time, insights from an insider can help enhance your golf experience. Below is an interview with Bill Rabuck who shares some valuable tidbits about the course, memorable holes and must eats and treats at the 19th.

Give Our Readers An Overview of the Golf Course/Property
Hartford Golf Club is a classic parkland golf course. A community pillar, we have seen 85 years of Washington County development. Less than 10 minutes from Holy Hill (Or Erin Hills), this course is a rarity in today's golf market...a QUICK, FUN EIGHTEEN HOLES.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?
Everything that we do is geared toward the customer. Every price that we charge is worth the experience, from green fee to food and beverage.

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
Back nine greens are small and break less than you think.

Recent Awards or What You Are Most Proud About The Course?
Our membership has owned the property since 1928. Community club. 3 hole practice course for new players (also since 1928) is considered revolutionary for modern courses.

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
The 12th Hole. 586 yard par 5. 90 degree dogleg left with OB left. Green features a false front. This hole is a monster.

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It?
4th hole. 152 yard par 3 over water. Green slopes significantly from back right to front left. Play a left to right shot and let the slope move the ball to the hole

Must Have Dish or Drink after the round at the 19th Hole?
Cheeseburger, Fries, Ice Cold Beverage.

Who Holds Course Record and What Was Their Score?
Lay Lohmiller, David Spengler, Jake Schmitt, Chip Summers. 63. Ladies Record - 73, Rheba Mabie

Back Tee Stats
Par: 72
Yardage: 6529
Slope: 121
Rating: 70.7

More Information
Hartford Golf Club
7072 Lee Road
Hartford, WI, 53027
262-673-2710
www.hartfordgolfclubwi.com

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About: Brian Weis

Brian Weis is the mastermind behind GolfTrips.com, a vast network of golf travel and directory sites covering everything from the rolling fairways of Wisconsin to the sunbaked desert layouts of Arizona. If there’s a golf destination worth visiting, chances are, Brian has written about it, played it, or at the very least, found a way to justify a "business trip" there.

As a card-carrying member of the Golf Writers Association of America (GWAA), International Network of Golf (ING), Golf Travel Writers of America (GTWA), International Golf Travel Writers Association (IGTWA), and The Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG), Brian has the credentials to prove that talking about golf is his full-time job. In 2016, his peers even handed him The Shaheen Cup, a prestigious award in golf travel writing—essentially the Masters green jacket for guys who don’t hit the range but still know where the best 19th holes are.

Brian’s love for golf goes way back. As a kid, he competed in junior and high school golf, only to realize that his dreams of a college golf scholarship had about the same odds as a 30-handicap making a hole-in-one. Instead, he took the more practical route—working on the West Bend Country Club grounds crew to fund his University of Wisconsin education. Little did he know that mowing greens and fixing divots would one day lead to a career writing about the best courses on the planet.

In 2004, Brian turned his golf passion into a business, launching GolfWisconsin.com. Three years later, he expanded his vision, and GolfTrips.com was born—a one-stop shop for golf travel junkies looking for their next tee time. Today, his empire spans all 50 states, and 20+ international destinations.

On the course, Brian is a weekend warrior who oscillates between a 5 and 9 handicap, depending on how much he's been traveling (or how generous he’s feeling with his scorecard). His signature move" A high, soft fade that his playing partners affectionately (or not-so-affectionately) call "The Weis Slice." But when he catches one clean, his 300+ yard drives remind everyone that while he may write about golf for a living, he can still send a ball into the next zip code with the best of them.

Whether he’s hunting down the best public courses, digging up hidden gems, or simply outdriving his buddies, Brian Weis is living proof that golf is more than a game—it’s a way of life.