Oregon Golf School - Learning Like the Pros By Brian Weis

Oregon Golf School - Learning Like the Pros

By Brian Weis

Movies aren't exactly the best place to get advice, especially when it comes to golf. Yet, there's one line in one particular movie I think we can all agree is spot on. Anti-score keeping enthusiast and part-time philosopher Ty Webb said, "See the ball. Be the ball."

Our context might be a little bit different, but we agree. In order to improve your golf game, you need to see what you're doing, make adjustments, and constantly reevaluate. And that's exactly what happens at the Oregon Golf School.

The Range and Course
You're playing golf with a PGA Professional by your side and things are good. The views are good, the company is good.

When you have a resource such as a pro, which could be entirely new for you, it's hard to not feel confident. Having someone knowledgeable objectively viewing your swing and helping you make changes does a lot. It means improving faster and more significantly than if you were trying to do it on your own. They're also a sounding board for when you come up with an idea, rather than making a change that ends up a step in the wrong direction.

Visualizing it All
On the course or after, when the clubs are away for the day, video and analytics are the most useful tools in golf instruction. On the course, it helps you combine feel and results. Suppose you have a few shots that feel good, but you aren't sure what was different. A video comparison shows you exactly what you need to do to maintain those results.

Where we like video the most is after the round. Professional golf video groups swings together and utilizes additional visual aids. When your instructor can fully digest what they saw during the day and communicate back to you, they're more effective.

This tool provides value well beyond what you accomplish during a short period of time on the course. Video makes it so that you can refer back to what you felt, or didn't feel, when working in person.

Beyond the Oregon Golf School Experience
Learning something is easy. Retaining it is not. We've all had rounds or range sessions where we find a fix, stripe the ball, and leave feeling confident. Only issue is, maintaining the swing you fell into doesn't always happen.

When you leave the Oregon Golf School, you'll hit the ball better than when you arrived. However, golfers recognize that some of the momentum you built up can be lost on the car ride home and diminished as the rounds go by.

To account for this, you have the ability to follow up virtually with your instructors. Not just the recordings of your lessons, but face to face conversations. Given the time you spent with them on-site, they have a keen ability to pinpoint issues you're overlooking and give you tips and drills to right the ship.

With this avenue unexplored by most professionals, it's a clear advantage, and one that further makes a case for an immersive golf instruction experience.

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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.