Sycamore Creek Golf Club

Getting To Know: Sycamore Creek Golf Club

An Insightful Interview With Danna Kahrs, General Manager

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 Danna Kahrs 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
While Sycamore Creek may not be the easiest golf course at the Lake to play, it is one that will help your game the most. You can use every club in your bag and will be challenged to "manage" your game. It will be the round that helps you improve your game and get stronger as a player.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?
Sycamore Creek is a beautiful golf course set among the rolling hills with wildlife in abundance. Deer, turkeys and even bald eagles are a common sighting here at the course.

Another great reason to play at Sycamore Creek is that you will be treated as a friend. When you walk in the door you are greeted with a hello and an invitation to enjoy our golf course. If you visit our snack bar at the turn you will again be greeted by our friendly staff and helped with a smile. We know you have many choices of golf courses to play here at the Lake, and we appreciate when you choose Sycamore Creek.

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
Do not take a driver out of the bag on every tee. This is not necessary and could actually be a detriment to your score. Look at the yardage and the a layout of the hole and pick the club that will be the best for you.

Recent Awards or What You Are Most Proud About The Course?
Sycamore Creek has been open for 20 years this year, and we are very proud to have a solid base of members that rejoin our course every year and enjoy playing. And we have a great number of players that we see every year that are from out of town, and they make Sycamore Creek one of their stops when they are at the Lake. It is a great honor to get to know golfers well enough over the years to call them your friends. We at Sycamore Creek are blessed to have lots of good golfing friends!

Must Have Dish or Drink after the round at the 19th Hole?
Our hot dogs are well know in the community, and not just with the golfers. Bigger than most any hot dog you will find, they have a great taste and we have people stop by just to eat lunch. Make sure you try a hot dog when playing at Sycamore Creek!

More Information
1270 Nichols Rd
Osage Beach, Missouri, 65065
www.sycamorecreekgolfclub.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.