Sweetgrass Golf Club - Hole #9

Sweetgrass Golf Club - Island Resort & Casino

Where Eagles Soar and Slots Pour

By Brian Weis

Sweetgrass Golf Club is part of the Island Resort & Casino in Harris, Michigan just 13 miles from Escanaba. In addition to a 18 hole championship course, the resort features a full service casino, 275 rooms and multiple dining options including a sports bar and full restaurant.

Recently, Sweetgrass Golf Club hosted the 2011 LPGA Futures Tour won by Stephanie Kim. Dave Douglas, Director of Golf, hosted two contestants and they both raved that the course was the best they played on tour.

The Paul Albanese design took into all account Indian lore and lifestyles when laying out the 6829 yard par 72 course.

Notables holes

#1 - If you want to get into a gambling frame of mind then it's time to try and drive the opening hole. The par-4 plays 287 yards from the whites (and 320 from the back blues), but with fast and firm tour grade conditions you can go for it. But if you don't pull off the shot there's plenty of trouble in forms of bunkers and railroad ties to lead to a bogey.

#13 - Play Russian Roulette with this dogleg left. 456 yards and plays all of it and more the green is perched beneath two wood carvings of majestic eagles.

#15 - The island hole that plays longer than the 17th at TPC Sawgrass. In order to get to the green, you will need a well struck short iron, then traverse over an old former one lane car bridges. The signature bridge is featured on five holes over the 18 hole layout.

Stay and Play
The Perfect Foursome Package is also available for a 3-round/2-night stay with golf at Sweetgrass, TimberStone and Greywalls, starting at $265.

For information and reservations call 906-723-2252 or visit www.sweetgrassgolfclub.com/packages

The Skinny
5 Tees: 7275, 6829, 6439, 5740 and 5075 yards
Slope/Rating: 142/75.2
Par: 72

Sweetgrass Golf Club
W399 Highway 2 and 41
Harris, MI 49845
www.sweetgrassgolfclub.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.