Restoring Greatness: The renovation of The Club at Lac la Belle By Brian Weis

Restoring Greatness: The renovation of The Club at Lac la Belle

By Brian Weis

The Club at Lac La Belle recently shared an update on their course renovation. Milwaukee area and traveling golfers take note.

Meet The New Owners:The Morse Family

As a family, we've spent many hours playing golf together enjoying this great sport we all love. We used to dream about taking our passion for the game even further by owning a course. We made our dream a reality in April 2018 with the purchase of Lac La Belle Golf Course. We are restoring the course like you've never seen to bring you and others a phenomenal golf experience, right here in this quaint Wisconsin village.

We are honored to offer you this opportunity to play one of the oldest courses in the state and the steeped in U.S. Open History.

Clubhouse Remodel
We've also been busy completely renovating the interior of the clubhouse and its surroundings as well. The Pro Shop is now on the opposite end of the building making way for a new restaurant. The new restaurant will be opening out to a brand new undulating 18 hole putting course that wraps the clubhouse.

Quick Restoration by the Numbers
9 fairways raised an additional 3 to 4 feet above the original grade requiring over 150,000 yards of dirt to be moved.

4 holes completely moved off the existing property onto an additional 32 acres purchased to avoid the wettest areas of the land.

2 miles of drainage pipe installed throughout the rerouted course layout in addition to restoring several stream features.

Preview Play
We've had the wettest summer in 125 years last season, however, we're excited to be offering walking only preview play at a date to be announced.

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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.