How To Play Broadlands Golf Club By Brian Weis

How To Play Broadlands Golf Club

Allow Head Golf Pro Andy Spaulding to give you a few pointers on playing Broadlands.

By Brian Weis

GolfWisconsin.com asked Andy Andy Spaulding, Owner - General Manager, of the Broadlands Golf Clubfor a brief run-through on what to expect when playing the golf course:

Describe the beginning of a round here: difficult? picturesque? How do you see a round unfolding?
Number one is a long Par-4 where you need to bomb your first drive. But it's hard to hit out of bounds. The second hole is gorgeous. The first half of the course is surrounded by homes but do not interrupt play.

What is the best Par-5 on the course?
#13, a risk/reward dogleg left. Your tee shot will determine how much of the water hazard you want to cut off to give yourself a shot at the green in two. If you go too conservative, you can end up out of bounds to the right. It's all in your tee shot.

What's the best Par-3 on the course?
#18. This is about the most elevation you'll get on a tee here. The prevailing winds on this hole are make-or-break. Andy says, "I've hit everything from a pitching wedge to a 3-hybrid from the back tee. It's a beautiful hole but it requires a lot of thought in club selection." No cakewalk end to your round!

What is the toughest hole on the golf course?
#14, a long Par-4. There's out of bounds left and a ton of fescue to the right. The green is protected by two huge oak trees - if you're not in the correct part of the fairway, you ARE going to hit a tree.

What is the most challenging green on the golf course?
#16, our two-tiered green. If you're on the top tier and the pin's on the lower tier, you're in trouble. And vice-versa! Tough judgment, speed-wise.

What is Broadlands' "Signature" hole?
#2. The view off the tee is magnificent. The hole has 11 bunkers, water and fescue. It's got a little bit of everything.

What's the finish to Broadlands like?
Sixteen is an uphill Par-5. On paper it doesn't look like it, but it's our most reachable Par-5 in two. If you're straight, this can be a birdie hole. Seventeen is a short Par-4 that you can also score on. Eighteen is one of the best holes on the course. So you have two chances at birdie and one on which par is a great score.

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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.