Indian Rock Golf Club - Hole #17

Getting To Know: Indian Rock Golf Club

An Insightful Interview With Chris Jackson, 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 Chris Jackson 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
Indian Rock's warm season fairways and tee boxes, and bent-grass greens cover 300-plus acres, interspersed with 200 one-third-acre home sites. Four tee boxes provide a choice of yardages. The course's signature #17 hole is a golfers' favorite - guarded at the back by a majestic outcrop of rocks and at the front by a deep clear-water lake. The pro shop features clothing, golf equipment and more. Golf lessons from the pros are available. After your round of golf, relax at The Clubhouse Pub. Tee times are accepted up to 30 days in advance. Location To reach Indian Rock from Lake Ozark, take the new Community Bridge to Hwy. 5 or take Hwy. 5 north from Camdenton. At Laurie, go east on Rt. O approximately 2.5 miles; the course is 18 Holes Semi-Private.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?
We are close to most everything on the "quite side" of the lake. Our course sits across the street from a movie theater and we have our own fabulous restaurant and bar. We offer probably the best bang for your buck for any golf course at the lake. The west side of the lake has many hidden gems that are there for travelers to find!

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
The golf course is a very "risk/reward" course. If you are a not so straight hitter off the tee, then maybe leaving the driver in the bag will be a good option, but don't worry hitting a straight iron or 3 wood off the tee still leaves you within striking distance for a birdie. But if you prefer to BOMB the ball out there you can cut corners and go over ponds and trees to leave you a very easy and great opportunity to score!

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
Hole 17 is our signature hole, it has an outcropping of Elephant rocks the reach some 30 feet in the air that is guarding the back of the green with a beautiful limestone lined pond in front of the 145 to 100 yard par 3.

Who Holds Course Record and What Was Their Score?
The course record is a -8 under 64 currently held by the General Manager/Superintendent Chris Jackson on May 16 2001. He shot a 34 on the front 9 and a blistering 30 (-6) on the back 9.

Back Tee Stats
Par: 72
Yardage: 6380
Slope: 124
Rating: 70.6

More Information
Indian Rock Golf Club
100 Indian Lake Drive
Gravois Mills, Missouri, 65037
573-372-3023

www.indianrockgolfclub.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.