Lakeview Hills Golf Resort

Getting To Know: Lakeview Hills Golf Resort

An Insightful Interview With Dennis Fabbri, PGA Head Professional / Owner

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 Dennis Fabbri 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 are located 1.5 miles West of Lexington and Lake Huron. Both golf courses sit atop the hill providing spectacular views of the lake while enjoying the undulating terrain during your round. Lakeview Hills Golf Resort provides many amenities including a 33 room hotel, private house that sleeps 12 w/ in ground pool, bowling, shuttle to and from the Lexington harbor and much more.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?
Lakeview Hills Golf Resort is your first golf resort North. Located only 1.5 hours north of Detroit, you can enjoy that up north feel without traveling that far. Boasting a 33 room hotel and 36 holes of challenging golf, you will be pleased with your experience here.

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
There is usually a prevailing wind out of the Southeast and everything breaks towards Lake Huron.

Recent Awards or What You Are Most Proud About The Course?
Golf Digest 3 Star Award

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
North Course - Hole # 8 Par 3 - 190 yds from the back tees is an intimidating tee shot. All carry over water that borders the right side of the green with OB left and long. If you don't want to take a penalty shot, you must hit the green.

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It?
South Course - Hole # 18 Par 4 - 410 yards from the back tees. The only level part of this hole is the tee box! Narrow fairway that slopes left to right with drainage ditch and OB left combined with a prevailing right to left wind makes this one of the toughest tee shots at Lakeview Hills. Second shot is uphill to a small undulating green that takes precision to hit. Careful if you hit the second shot long as your chip coming back may roll all the way back down the hill.

Must Have Dish or Drink after the round at the 19th Hole?
Lexington Michigans famous Perch Dinner!

Who Holds Course Record and What Was Their Score?
North Course - PGA Tour Veteran, Stephen Ames shot a 10 under 62.

South Course - Undetermined

Back Tee Stats
Par: Both Par 72
Yardage: North Course - 6563 / South Course - 6306
Slope: North Course - 131 / South Course - 125
Rating: North Course - 72.5 / South Course - 70.6

More Information
Lakeview Hills Golf Resort
6560 Peck Rd.
Lexington, MI, 48450
810-359-8901
www.lakeviewhills.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.