What You Need To Know: Hayward Golf Course By Brian Weis

What You Need To Know: Hayward Golf Course

An Insightful Interview With Mitchell Byrd, 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 Mitchell Byrd 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
The prestigious - yet affordable - Hayward Golf Course is located in the heart of the resort community of Hayward, Wisconsin. Rated 4-Stars by Golf Digest, Hayward Golf Course is an 18-hole, par 72 public golf course that is a golfer-friendly experience. Challenging for the good golfer and charitable to the average and beginner golfer. Golfers will enjoy the combination of an immaculately groomed course, Northwoods scenery, and ornamental grasses.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?
We offer one of the best-maintained golf course experiences in northern Wisconsin, with a course layout that can be fair to a wide range of golfing abilities.

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?

Any recent changes to the golf course? Or any upcoming changes?
2023 saw a significant tee and bunker project completed at our facility that enhanced several existing tee boxes, created some entirely new tee boxes, and overhauled bunkers throughout the golf course.

Recent Awards or What You Are Most Proud About The Course?
We're very proud of the level of service our staff provide to our Passholders and customers on a daily basis. Between our three professionals, two superintendents, and all of our high school and college kids that come in for the summer, we've got a wide range of experiences to contribute to the golfing community here at HGC.

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
Hole 14 on our Back 9, which is a scenic Par 3 over water surrounded by towering pines.

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It?

Must Have Dish or Drink after the round at the 19th Hole?
Our bar staff make an excellent Bloody Mary!

For the traveling golfer, do you have lodging onsite or partner with any area hotels?
We do not have onsite lodging, but a variety of hotels and motels are within just a mile or two from our golf course.

Who Holds Course Record and What Was Their Score?
Brody Moreland with a 63.

Back Tee Stats
Par: 72
Yardage: 6678
Slope: 127
Rating: 72.2

More Information
Hayward Golf Course 16005 Radio Hill Rd Hayward, WI, 54843 715-634-2760

www.haywardgolf.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.