Evergreen Resort

Getting To Know: Evergreen Resort

An Insightful Interview With Phil Himes, Director of Golf

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 Phil Himes 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 course sits on some rolling hills, the front plays thru the pines trees, and is very tight. Hitting the right club off the tee is very important, ball placement. It does feel like the up north kind of course. The nice thing about the course it is playable for all handicaps. Young and old will enjoy it.

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
Find out from the golf shop where lake Cadillac is, the greens break towards the lake.

Recent Awards or What You Are Most Proud About The Course?
Golf Digest 4 star places to play award

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
Number 5. a par 3 downhill plays to about 159 yds from the back tees, also over a nice pond.
Have fun

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It?
18th Hole Par 3 169 Yds, plays most of the time into the wind. A very small green and a very large drop off on the right side of the green. Par is a great score, to end your round.

Must Have Dish or Drink after the round at the 19th Hole?
Any of the Pizza or the Curly's burger in Curly's sports bar.

Who Holds Course Record and What Was Their Score?
67 is the course record, back in the early 80's

Back Tee Stats
Par: 71
Yardage: 6438
Slope: 130
Rating: 71.5

More Information
Evergreen Resort "Spruce"
7880 Mackinaw Trail
Cadillac, MI, 49601
231-942-7021
www.evergreenresortmi.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.

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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.

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