Grand Traverse Resort and Spa to Host Inaugural Wolverine Weekend By Brian Weis

Grand Traverse Resort and Spa to Host Inaugural Wolverine Weekend

Featuring Athletes, Alumni and Special Guests

By Brian Weis

Get ready to bleed maize and blue at Grand Traverse Resort and Spa's Wolverine Weekend. Join us June 17-19 for Wolverine Weekend featuring golf on The Wolverine, a meet-and-greet with star athletes, plus dinner with keynote speaker John U. Bacon.

Grand Traverse Resort and Spa is home to The Wolverine golf course, Gary Player's first signature course in Michigan. It is designed to take full advantage of the Resort's richly diverse environment. With the same name as the iconic mascot, it is the perfect course for fans, students, alumni, and athletes to play.

Wolverine Weekend kicks off with a Sports Talk 1050 WTKA live broadcast on Saturday, June 18. Listen to Sam Webb, Ira Weintraub and special guest Devin Gardner live from Grand Traverse Resort and Spa's Clubhouse. After the show, hit the links on The Wolverine. The golf outing includes meet-and-greet photo opportunities throughout the course with J.J. McCarthy, Ronnie Bell, and Ryan Hayes.

Wolverine Weekend continues with a ticketed dinner and speaker series. Enjoy an extended meet-and-greet session with the athletes, Gardner, and author John U. Bacon. Guests will gather in the Resort's Governors' Hall for a three-course dinner and lite version of WTKA's Monday Morning Quarterback with Devin Gardner. Well-known in the Michigan football and sports world, author John U. Bacon will then take the stage as keynote speaker. Bacon has written for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, and ESPN Magazine, among others. He has authored eleven books on sports, business, health, and history - five of which are NY Times Best-Sellers.

Get your Wolverine Weekend tickets today! Guests have the option to book golf and dinner together, or dinner only. Room availability is limited. Visit grandtraverseresort.com/wolverineweekend for more details.

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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.