Meadows Golf Course By Brian Weis

Meadows Golf Course

An Insightful Interview With Joshua Willis, Director of Golf Operations

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 Joshua Willis 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
The breathtaking layout of the Meadows course features tremendous variety within its 18-holes, seven of which border the meandering Sun River. The dramatic use of directional and fore bunkers serves up ample challenges for golfers of all skill levels. Meadows also boasts a nine-hole putting course.

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
A premium is placed on your approach shot. Trust your yardages as John Fought's dramatic use of directional and fore-bunkers serve up ample challenges.

Recent Awards or What You Are Most Proud About The Course?
Meadows has been the host site of numerous USGA, PGA of America, and NCAA Championships. The Meadows is the Championship course which compliments Crosswater allowing Sunriver Resort to be an attractive host facility for organizations requiring multiple courses to conduct their Championships. Most recently the Meadows hosted rounds 1 & 2 of the 2013 PGA Professional National Championship.

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
#18 The lake guards the green and fairway on the left, and the horses roaming the meadow to the right with Bachelor in the background.

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It?
#18 Keep the ball to the right center of the fairway to avoid the Lake on the left and then play your second shot to the right center of the flag to avoid the lake on the left. A premium is placed on your approach shot. Trust your yardages as John Fought's dramatic use of directional and fore-bunkers serve up ample challenges.

Must Have Dish or Drink after the round at the 19th Hole?
Owl's Nest Burger

Who Holds Course Record and What Was Their Score?
Corey Prugh and Rod Perry, 8-under 63, during Round 1 of the 2014 PGA Professional National Championship

Back Tee Stats
Par: 72
Yardage: 7012
Slope: 140
Rating: 73.5

More Information
Meadows Golf Course
17600 Center Drive
Sunriver OR , 97707
800-801-8765 or 541-593-4402

http://www.sunriver-resort.com/golf/oregon-golf-course-meadows

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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.