Hawk Hollow Golf Course

Getting To Know: Hawk Hollow Golf Course and Eagle Eye Golf Club

An Insightful Interview With Terry Kildea, Director of Marketing

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 Terry Kildea 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
Hawk Hollow is a 27 hole championship facility, recognized as a top 40 course in Michigan by GolfWeek and Golf Digest. Features include fairways framed by tall hardwood trees, exceptional bunkering and green complexes, with water in play on most holes. Four sets of tees allow golfers of all skill levels to enjoy the experience. This property also boasts an 18 hole all natural grass putting course--one of only a handful in Michigan.

Eagle Eye Golf Club is consistently rated in the top five courses that the public can play in Michigan. Course conditions and customer service are second to none.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?
Both Hawk Hollow and Eagle Eye provide a memorable golfing experience. Arguably the best one / two combination in Michigan and they are right across the street from each other.

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
The fairways have generous landing areas. Use the right club off the tee to avoid the rough.

Most green complexes are large. Use the daily hole location sheet to ensure that you take enough club to carry your approach back to the hole.

Recent Awards or What You Are Most Proud About The Course?
Eagle Eye has been rated as #53 in the United States for 'upscale courses that you can play'. Eagle Eye will be the host venue for the 2016 Michigan Amateur Championship.

Both courses have hosted USGA qualifying tournaments--The U.S. Open and the U.S. Senior Open.

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
Number 17 at Eagle Eye is an exact replica of the famed Island Green hole seen each May at the Tournament Players Championship.

Who Holds Course Record and What Was Their Score?
Scott Hebert at both Hawk Hollow and Eagle Eye. Score of 64 at both, during different years. Each record round was played during the Michigan PGA Championship. Scott won the event 4 out of the 5 years that it was played at Hawk Hollow and Eagle Eye.

Back Tee Stats
Par: 72
Yardage: 7305
Slope: 145
Rating: 74.5

More Information
Hawk Hollow Golf Course and Eagle Eye Golf Club
15500 Chandler Road East
Lansing, Michigan, 48823
517-641-4570, ext 3
www.hawkhollow.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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