Getting To Know: Zoar Golf Club By Brian Weis

Getting To Know: Zoar Golf Club

An Insightful Interview With Brad Haynes, 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 Brad Haynes 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
Zoar Golf Club has been a destination course for Northeast Ohio and Western Pennsylvania
players for years. Superintendent Eric Crone has created some of the most consistent day to day conditions around.

Zoar GC is host to many amateur, collegiate and high school tournaments throughout the season.

We work closely with most of the local hotels for those that like the stay and play golf vacations.

The pro shop is well stocked with men's and women's apparel, shoes, bags, hats and balls.

Our practice is second to none with driving range, chipping/bunkered green and putting green.

Tee times are strongly suggested.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?
Our 4.6 google rating

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
My friends ask about Zoar and I respond: It's pretty easy to get up to, or around the green. Then the work begins! The greens have just enough undulation and speed to make you grind just a bit.

Any recent changes to the golf course? Or any upcoming changes?
We have added six new senior tees.

Recent Awards or What You Are Most Proud About The Course?
I am proud of the employees. We are widely regarded as "the most friendly place."

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
Probably our last two holes. #17 is a short risk/reward hole and #18 is bunkered on both sides of the fairway near most landing areas for drives, with water in play front and left of the green.

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It?
I suppose #9. Wide fairway, elevated tee, no reason to finish the front with a par or better.

Must Have Dish or Drink after the round at the 19th Hole?
Our snack bar features fresh chicken salad sandwiches and the best all beef jumbo hot dogs in the continental 48! Beer and liquor also available.

For the traveling golfer, do you have lodging onsite or partner with any area hotels?
No Lodging here, but our website has links to area Hotels.

Who Holds Course Record and What Was Their Score?
From the blue tees, Eric Crone the course superintendent. He posted a 62 (31-31) in the Tuscarawas County Amateur. From the black (tips) tees, Jacob Appleby fired a 7 under par 65 on the second day to win the Zoar Memorial.

Back Tee Stats
Par: 72
Yardage: 6733
Slope: 122
Rating: 71.4

More Information
Zoar Golf Club
8229 Dover Zoar Road NE
Dover, Ohio, 44622
330-874-4653

www.zoargolf.com

Revised: 05/03/2022 - Article Viewed 6,321 Times - View Course Profile

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.