Getting To Know: Harbor Point Golf Club

An Insightful Interview With Shaun Bezilla, PGA

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 Shaun Bezilla 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
A charming resort golf experience awaits the passionate golfer. Walk mown tees and greens give the golf course an exceptional feel, elegance and superb playability. Renovated in 2008, the golf club now offers a full size practice facility and re-established original routing from early 1900's while adding 2 new holes. A true classic design offering the ability to walk or ride, timely play and a superior value Harbor Point Golf Club is sure to please golfers of all abilities and skill levels.

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If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?
Harbor Point is golf as it should be played at a brisk fun pace. With superb playing conditions and quality putting surfaces its truly an enjoyable experience. The golf enthusiast looking for a good value, great experience and timely play will be thrilled when they finish 18 holes at Harbor Point.

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
The green complexes are challenging and smallerish than today's standards, so every golfer beware. Often times the ball will break to the bay, but not always so one must pay attention once they reach the putting surfaces/

Recent Awards or What You Are Most Proud About The Course?
I am truly proud of the excellent playing conditions we offer and the consistency of said conditioning. We offer you the best everyday!

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
Our signature hole is #7 a 393 yard 4 par overlooking Little Traverse Bay and the Inn at Bay Harbor in the distance. Truly a breathtaking view but made even more spectacular in the fall during the color change.

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It?
There are so many good holes such as the opening 436 yard 5 par that offers golfers an easy introduction to their round and potential birdie opportunity. Or the 252yard 4 par 6th hole playing straight uphill this hole is a risk reward hole for big hitters. #18 which is new after the renovations is some 397 yards long from the tips and provides excellent closure to a great day of golf.

Must Have Dish or Drink after the round at the 19th Hole?
We offer excellent burgers and a remarkable veggie sandwich but everything is fresh and delicious.

Who Holds Course Record and What Was Their Score?
Since the renovation in 2008 two players have shoot 64 which is currently the lowest recorded score on file. PGA Head Professional at Harbor Point Shaun Bezilla and PGA Head Professional at Hidden River Jerry Roman.

Back Tee Stats
Par: 71
Yardage: 5826
Slope: 123
Rating: 68.6

More Information
Harbor Point Golf Club 8
475 S. Lakeshore Dr
Harbor Springs, MI, 49740
231-526-2951

www.harborpointgolfclub.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.