Lawsonia

Getting To Know: The Golf Courses of Lawsonia

An Insightful Interview With Jeff Kleinke, Director of Golf

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 Jeff Kleinke 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
Lawsonia offers two different Championship Golf Courses being the famous Links Course ranked #3 in the State of Wisconsin "Golfweek" or the complete opposite Woodland Course. Come play both in one day and feel like you traveled the world around in just 8 hours! The Links has fescue, huge bunkers, and greens that will bring you to your knee's. While the Woodlands will entertain you with its beautiful wildlife and contrast of different holes in a park like setting. Come and play in Scotland/Ireland on the Links in the morning, then onto Augusta and the tall pines that surround you on the Woodlands. Lawsonia is a real special place to play, and will bring you memories for a lifetime.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?
36 Holes of Championship Golf all in one property with many lodging options to go along with. Lawsonia also offers a full scale restaurant and bar open daily in season serving all your favorites.

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
It always help to keep it on the short grass, but the one tip I could give you is bring the putting game because the greens are slick and a challenge.

Recent Awards or What You Are Most Proud About The Course?
Links Course ranked #3 in State and #52 Classic Course in the Nation by "Golfweek" also "Golf Digest" has ranked the Links Course #13 in the Nation for most fun you can have on the golf course.

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole? Links Course #7 par has boxcars buried under the green to give it the elevation.
Woodlands Course #3 par 3 has 85 foot drop to green with senic Big Green Lake to the right, great photo opportunities here.

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It?
Links Course #13 is long Par 5 that seems like it just keeps going, great look and vibe to this Classic hole that has withstood the test of time.

Woodlands Course #17 is a Par 4 that sets up great from the tee and reminds me of Augusta and the Masters every time I play it.

Must Have Dish or Drink after the round at the 19th Hole?
That's a tough choice, I will let you try for yourselves. The bar was made from trees right off the property, one of the best setting anywhere to enjoy a beverage inside or outside overlooking the golf course.

Who Holds Course Record and What Was Their Score?
Not me that's for sure. I believe Jim Shuman on the Links Course how shot 63 in an event and the Woodlands 67 from the back tees.

More Information
The Golf Courses of Lawsonia
W2615 South Valley View Drive
Green Lake, Wisconsin, 54941
920-294-3320
www.lawsonia.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.

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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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