What You Need To Know: A-Ga-Ming Golf Resort By Brian Weis

What You Need To Know: A-Ga-Ming Golf Resort

An Insightful Interview With Chris Hines, Director of Instruction

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 Chris Hines 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
We have two beautiful golf courses at A-Ga-Ming Golf Resort, Sundance and the Torch course. They both offer great northern Michigan beauty overlooking Torch Lake. We have a sprawling practice facility including a full driving range, chipping green, practice bunkers and a spacious putting green. The property also includes two restaurants with varying menus.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?
Our facility is family friendly with two courses that are both challenging but fair. Our rates are competitive in the area and we offer unmatched views of beautiful Torch Lake.

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
The Sundance course is a links style course with wide fairways lined with heather and bunkers. The course plays very fair with undulating greens. The Torch course is a true northern Michigan golf course cut through the trees with great elevation change. Play smart off the tee, using driver may not always be the best option.

Any recent changes to the golf course? Or any upcoming changes?
We just recently opened our new pro shop and restaurant overlooking the Sundance course. Stop by after your round for a great pizza at the Brick Oven at Sundance.

Recent Awards or What You Are Most Proud About The Course?
We are proud of the friendly atmosphere and well conditioned courses we have at A-Ga-Ming Golf Resort.

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
The par 3 seventh hole on the Torch course is our signature hole because of the spectacular views of Torch Lake.

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It?
My favorite hole is the par 3 seventeenth at Sundance because it is a beautiful down hill hole that has a view of Torch Lake in the distance.

Must Have Dish or Drink after the round at the 19th Hole?
The newly opened Brick Oven at Sundance offers great pizza and hot stone sandwiches to go along with our famous Torch Lake Cooler.

For the traveling golfer, do you have lodging onsite or partner with any area hotels?
We have several different lodging accommodations on the property, ranging from single bedroom all the way up to four bedroom condominiums.

Who Holds Course Record and What Was Their Score?
Course record is 67 held by Joshua Lavely.

Back Tee Stats
Par: 72
Yardage: 6886
Slope: 140
Rating: 73.6

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A-Ga-Ming Golf Resort 627 Agaming Dr. Kewadin, Michigan, 49648 231-264-5081

https://www.a-ga-ming.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.