Crooked tree - Hole #15

Getting To Know: Crooked Tree Golf Club

An Insightful Interview With Steve Good, Head Golf Professional

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 Steve Good 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 Crooked Tree Golf Club is a challenging test of golf that meanders through beautiful hardwoods with unparalleled views of Lake Michigan. It is adds enjoyable variety in shot selection while challenging golfers of all levels.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course? Crooked Tree Golf Club is conveniently located between Boyne Highlands and Boyne Mountain. While enjoying your stay with Boyne Resorts it is a must play among the many golf opportunities that Boyne Resorts has to offer.

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course? While playing your round at Crooked Tree pay attention to greens that always seem to influence the ball to move towards Lake Michigan. Pay careful attention to club selection so that your approach stays on the lower side of the hole.

Recent Awards or What You Are Most Proud About The Course?
2004 Golf Digest Best Places to Play

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
Hole #15 is a Par 3 that Overlooks Lake Michigan.

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It? Hole #15.

Must Have Dish or Drink after the round at the 19th Hole?
Enjoy the Restaurants of The Inn at Bay Harbor.

Back Tee Stats
Par: 71
Yardage: 6712
Slope: 136
Rating: 72.6
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Crooked Tree Golf Club
600 Crooked Tree Drive
Petoskey, Michigan, 49770
231-439-4030
www.boyne.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.