Hunters Glen Golf Club

Getting To Know: Hunter's Glen Golf Club

An Insightful Interview With Troy Gruszynski, Superintendent

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 Troy 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
Hunter's Glen is one of the first courses designed by Rick Jacobson after he left Jack Nicklaus Designs. He has also designed Thornberry Creek, The Broadlands, and The Club at Strawberry Creek in Wisconsin just to name a few. He is a tremendous talent and we are so fortunate he fell in loved with the land we own. We are a tale of two nines with a more wide-open links-style front nine, combined with a northwoods, tree-lined back nine. Hunter's Glen is set upon 179 acres so we are easily walk able. We also have a great local following and offer numerous golf leagues throughout the year.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?
Hunter's Glen offers a course molded in the image of a Scottish Links Course, with tall fescue grass and and flowing fairways. The inward nine changes things up a bit with a few tree-lined set in the north woods of Wisconsin. We pride ourselves in the creating an affordably fun golf experience for all skill levels.

I also feel we have some of the best greens in the area. Our greens can get running 10-12 on the stimp meter. They are slick and true.

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
You should score well if you keep it below the hole and in short grass.

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
Rick Jacobson, architect, never dubbed a hole the signature hole but he loved hole 18. The 400 yard par-4 is sweeping dog leg right that offers two fairways to get home. To par the hole avoid the huge sand trap in the middle of the fairway. Longer hitters may flirt with cutting the corner but must be aware of a slightly hidden bunker on the right. Your second shot plays uphill to a green that slopes to the left.

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It?
My favorite hole is #5 which I refer to as "The Stairway to Heaven." Positioning of the tee is important as the fairway narrows toward the green. The fairway gently slopes down and eventually rises to an elevated green surrounded by dense northern woods. In addition, our opening holes are wide open link style and after hole #5 you enter the holes in the north woods.

Must Have Dish or Drink after the round at the 19th Hole?
My mom makes some of the best burgers in the county.

Back Tee Stats
Par: 72
Yardage: 6395
Slope: 121
Rating: 70.5

More Information
Hunter's Glen Golf Club
7572 Old W Road
Crivitz, WI, 54114
(715) 854-8008

http://www.golfhuntersglen.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.