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Getting To Know: Troy Burne Golf Club

An Insightful Interview With Dave Tentis, Head Golf Professional

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 Dave Tentis 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
Troy Burne Golf Club is a premier upscale daily-fee club created by the world-class design team of, accomplished PGA TOUR player Tom Lehman and the internationally recognized architectural firm of Hurdzan-Fry.

Tom's experience playing the most demanding golf courses around the world has given him the vision of what makes a championship-caliber course. But Tom also believes a course must be fair as well as challenging - testing players of all levels, while rewarding good shot-making. Design partners Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry brought their reputation as environmental pioneers, and helped to ensure the course would be representative of the native environment and topography.

The result of this expert collaboration was Troy Burne Golf Club, a world-class championship masterpiece, opened for play in June 1999. Carefully sculpted out of 420 acres of rolling St. Croix Valley hills, the course features over 120 bunkers protecting generous bent grass fairways and stadium greens. Burne, the Scottish term for creek, is fitting as water comes into play on eight holes. Amber prairie grasses cover the hillsides along many holes, providing vivid contrast to the emerald fairways and roughs.

Troy Burne Golf Club is excited to announce we have expanded our clubhouse to accommodate your dream wedding ceremony and reception or event! Our event center opens up beautifully from the restaurant and bar with gorgeous panoramic views of Troy Burne Golf Course. We are now ready to host your 2014 wedding or event with spacious style and class.

For more information contact Lauren Pellowski via email: laurenp@troyburne.com or by phone: 715-381-9800.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course? A unique "stadium links" design featuring over 225 acres of rolling countryside. The front nine incorporates sprawling mounds covered in native fescue grasses, while the back dives into a quiet hollow surrounded by wooded areas including pines, birch, oak, and maple trees. Many guests say our greens are the fastest, smooth greens they play each year. The bent-grass fairways will have you feeling like your playing a course you see on TV.

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
Play to the middle of each green to minimize the chance of finding a greenside bunker. Relax over your tee shots, plenty of room to play.

Recent Awards or What You Are Most Proud About The Course?
2015-2016 Golf Digest Ranked 8th Wisconsin: Best in State Rankings

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
Par 3 11th due to the setting and downhill shot, tiny green.

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It?
Par 4 2nd hole. Off the tee I place my ball on the right side of the fairway just short of the fairway bunker avoiding the watery grave to the left. My 2nd shot I add 5-10 yards to take the water in front of the green out of play aiming at the center of the green. If I can two-putt I'm always happy with a par on a hole that can cause havoc to the scorecard.

Must Have Dish or Drink after the round at the 19th Hole?
Walleye sandwich washed down with one of our (8) craft beers on tap.

Who Holds Course Record and What Was Their Score?
Steve LeBrun 2005 Nationwide Tour 2nd Round 61

Back Tee Stats
Par: 71
Yardage: 7034
Slope: 136
Rating: 74.3

More Information
Troy Burne Golf Club
295 Lindsay Road
Hudson, WI, 54016
715-381-9800, ext. 112
www.troyburne.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.