Kestrel Ridge

Getting To Know: Kestrel Ridge Golf Club

An Insightful Interview With Lori Brown, GM

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 Lori Brown 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
18 hole links style course/ 2 practice greens including practice sandbunker/ large driving range/ fully stocked pro shop/ Excellent sports bar (Putter's Pub) with large t.v.'s, full menu, daily food and drink specials/ Beverage cart out most days/ full service banquet hall that holds 250 people/ on site ceremony location/ outdoor tent for outings.

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
Practice sand shots- there are 72 sand traps on course/ practice on our greens-they are fast/ make a strong effort to approach the hole from below-trying to never putt down hill.

Recent Awards or What You Are Most Proud About The Course?
Friendly dedicated staff/ we put a lot of effort into the greens-making them fast and smooth.

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
Hole 18-par 4/ very narrow fairway-houses on one side-rock quarry on the other side-leading up to an elevated green.

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It?
Hole 11-par4/risk and reward hole/can shoot straight to the reachable green-having to clear water with prevailing winds or lay-up for 150 yard shot into the green/ if you lay-up make sure to be left of the red pole to avoid hidden water.

Must Have Dish or Drink after the round at the 19th Hole?
Ridge Burger (hamburger smothered in bacon and cheese served with leaf lettuce and fresh tomato on a toasted bun.

Bloody Mary with beer chaser!!!!!!

Who Holds Course Record and What Was Their Score?
Nathan Collath shot a 63

Back Tee Stats
Par: 70
Yardage: 6116
Slope: 122
Rating: 70.1

More Information
Kestrel Ridge Golf Club
900 Avalon Road
Columbus, WI, 53925
920-623-4653
www.kestrelridgegolf.com

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About: Brian Weis

Brian Weis is the Publisher of GolfTrips.com, a network of golf travel and directory sites including GolfWisconsin.com, GolfMichigan.com, ArizonaGolfer.com, GolfAlabama.com, etc. Professionally, Brian is a 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). In 2016, Brian won The Shaheen Cup, an award given to a golf travel writer by his peers.

All of his life, Brian has been around the game of golf. As a youngster, Brian competed at all levels in junior and high school golf. Brian had a zero chance for a college golf scholarship, so he worked on the grounds crew at West Bend Country Club to pay for his University of Wisconsin education. In his adult years, his passion for the game collided with his entrepreneurial spirit and in 2004 launched GolfWisconsin.com. In 2007, the idea for a network of local golf directory sites formed and GolfTrips.com was born. Today, the network consists of a site in all 50 states supported by national sites like GolfTrips.com, GolfGuide.com and GolfPackages.com. It is an understatement to say, Brian is passionate about promoting golf and golf travel on a local, regional, national and international level.

On the golf course, Brian is known as a fierce weekend warrior that fluctuates between a 5-9 handicap. With a soft fade, known as "The Weis Slice", and booming 300+ drives, he can blast it out of bounds with the best of them.