Muskego Lakes Hole #1

Getting To Know: Muskego Lakes CC

An Insightful Interview With Mark Krause, PGA professional/Co-Owner

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 Mark Krause, 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
Old style traditional course with rolling terrain, 8 dog legs, 36 sand traps, short cut tees and fairways. Smoothest greens in the area.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?
For the price nobody has course conditions as good as ours. As the on premise owner and golf professional, I make sure our superintendent and staff provide playing conditions that are appreciated by the knowledgeable golfer. Sure we had our problems in 2010 when the floods came, but we have repaired the damage done by mother nature and are willing to bet you will enjoy our playing conditions.

Two different courses when played from the white tees vs the Blue. Longer hitters should play the blue tees so they can hit driver most of the time. Don't let the yardage fool you. With 8 dog legs this is truly a tee shot position course.

We have hosted many qualifiers and state tournaments over the years and the lowest score ever shot was one 68.

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
With 8 dog legs it is suggested that you do not always hit the driver to try and cut the corner. There is nothing wrong with laying up to 110 to 140 yards from the green. Trying to punch out from the trees will not put you on in regulation too often.

Recent Awards or What You Are Most Proud About The Course?
Given by the "golf course owners Association of Wisconsin" teaching center of the year in 2005. We have many programs to help the golfer improve their game.

Ladies evening lessons followed by golf for 10 weeks starting in June. The same program for men on Wednesday evenings.

Tuesday morning men's 18 hole league with a lesson from 8:30 to 8:45 followed by a shotgun start at 9:30.

Our Junior program with 5 ability levels, maximum class size of 32 with two instructors per class. Kids play golf 6 of their 8 golf lessons.

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
What use to be 10 and is now #1. 415 yards with a creek crossing the fairway at 240 off the tee. You then hit uphill to a shallow green protected by 4 frontal pot bunkers built into the hill. With the green being elevated the back side is surrounded with large oak trees that give the whole beauty and depth.

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It?
Hole #6. 340 yard Dogleg right hitting from an elevated tee to a landing area at 120 yards from the green. The big hitter can try and go for the green over top of the large oak trees on the right but this effort does not work very often. It is best to hit the tee shot 220 yards just short of the two fairway bunkers on the left side. This leaves you with a 120 yard unhill shot to a small green that has a trap in front and on the right side of the green. Over is total jail unless the pin is on the front.

Must Have Dish or Drink after the round at the 19th Hole?
Everything on the menu is great. The winner always buys the first drink after golf.

Who Holds Course Record and What Was Their Score?
Mark Krause, 63. Done on December 12 2004. Started with 4 pars on each nine then proceeded to make 4 birdies in the next 5 holes on each nine.

Back Tee Stats
Par: 71
Yardage: 6550
Slope: 129
Rating: 129

More Information
Muskego Lakes GC
S100 W14020 Loomis Rd
Muskego, WI, 53150
414-425-6500
muskegolakes.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.

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