Blue Mound Golf and Country Club

Legendary Design And Storied History

By Brian Weis

Hidden behind a gated entrance just west of 101st street on North Avenue lies one of the more storied courses in Metro Milwaukee. Blue Mound Golf and Country Club hosted Wisconsin's first PGA Major in 1933. Gene Sarazen won the final match of the PGA Championship and hoisted the Wanamaker Trophy with a 5 and 4 over Willie Goggin. To the victor goes the spoils, his victory netted him $1000 in prize money. Almost laugh out loud funny in comparison to today's standards.

Interesting Factoid

Off the first tie stands the bust of course designer Seth J. Raynor. Raynor learned his art from Charles Blair Macdonald, the flamboyant designer known as "the father of golf course design in America. The duo believed there were only 25 great hole designs in the entire world. This theory is evident at Bluemond where each hole is marked with a plaque displaying the hole design name along with the course and hole that inspired it. One of Raynor's signatures, a Punch bowl shaped green, can be found on the eight hole.

Blue Mound Golf and Country Club co-hosts with Erin Hills, The 2011 U.S. Amateur Championship.

The Skinny
Private Course
3 Tees: 6667, 6313, 5632 Yards
Slope/Rating: 131/72.1

Blue Mound Golf and Country Club
10122 West North Avenue
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, 53226
414-258-4656
www.bluemoundgcc.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.