Getting To Know: Broadlands Golf Club By Brian Weis

Getting To Know: Broadlands Golf Club

An Insightful Interview With Andrew Spaulding , 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 Andrew Spaulding 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
18 hole public links style golf course. Designed by Rick Jacobsen and opened for play in 2000. Rated 4.5 stars by Golf Digest.

Full service facility with banquet hall, bar, golf shop, golf instruction, driving range, practice green and more!

Golf special are always available by booking your tee time on our website. www.b.golf

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?
Broadlands Golf Club offers a full service golf facility and is the best golf value in Southeastern Wisconsin.

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
Make sure to use enough loft when hitting out of the native grass.

Any recent changes to the golf course? Or any upcoming changes?

Recent Awards or What You Are Most Proud About The Course?
2018 & 2021 U.S. Kids Top 50.

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
Hole #18. Not many finishing holes are a par 3 and The Boradlands ends with an uphill mid length par 3. A well struck shot is needed to close out with a par. My tip is to heck the wind and adjust.

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It?
Hole #13 is a long dog leg right with a large pond guarding the right side. It is best to hit drive toward the 3 bunkers and play it as a 3 shot hole.

Back Tee Stats
Par: 72
Yardage: 6884
Slope: 125
Rating: 72.1

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Broadlands Golf Club 18 Augusta Way North Prairie, WI, 53153

www.b.golf

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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.