Pine Hills Golf Club

Pine Hills Golf - The North Star Mohican Casino

Golf and Gaming

By Brian Weis

The ultimate guys weekend is golf, gambling and Packer football. Located in the dense Wisconsin forest, just an hour northwest of Green Bay lies "Man-Cation" Utopia.

Pine Hills is a north woods golf at its finest. Director of Golf, Lloyd Young summed the course to a tee, "You have four holes to get your act together before the course tightens up on you. The remaining holes will require good decisions off the tee and well excited shots."

Lloyd raved about the lengthy 531 yard par 5 eleventh. I think the meat of the course starts here and ends at the 19th hole.

If you are looking to get away from it all or need a break from the tables Pine Hills is an nature lovers dream. My round was a peaceful four hour journey that encompassed all of Wisconsin wildlife including wild turkey, whitetail deer and everything in between.

Do not take my word for it, check out what Tom Sutton has recently said about the course and casino.

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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.