Arrrowhead Golf Club - East #12

Getting To Know: Arrowhead Golf Club

An Insightful Interview With Billy Klemz, Head Golf Professional

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 Billy Klemz 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 an old tree lined property surrounded by Forest Preserves. We have 27 holes on property and are usually quite busy. We take reservations for gold 7 days ahead on the telephone and 8 days out on the internet. We have built a new clubhouse in the last five years with a great restaurant and banquet facility.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?
We are the kind of place where a very accomplished player can find tremendous challenge. At the same time a less experienced golfer can still have fun without feeling beaten up by the end of the round. We have a large and loyal customer base in a very friendly environment.

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
The greens have a fair amount of slope and at times of the year can be quick, being below the pins whenever possible will reduce the putting totals.

Recent Awards or What You Are Most Proud About The Course?
We are most proud of the fact that, even in the trying economic times, we continue to try to improve the course each and every year. The south course was just reopened after a fall renovation project to excellent reviews. The East nine was done one year ago and the west will be reworked this fall.

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
The most talked about hole is #10 East a 538 yard par 5 with water right and woods left. It is sometimes talked about with anger and sometimes with joy. It is certainly challenging as it requires three shots of tremendous accuracy. The most photograhped holes are 3 south or 13 east. Both feature significant elevation changes and are framed by large trees in the forest preserve.

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It?
My favorite hole is 9 south. A 377 yard par four that moves downhill the entire length of the hole. The clubhouse sits prominantly behind the green and is a fantastic view for finishing your round.

Must Have Dish or Drink after the round at the 19th Hole?
For an appetizer Billy's bruschetta, because it is actually named after me :) In all seriousness though, our chef Alan Pierhofer is truly a gift to our facility. The food that comes out of the kitchen is amazing. For drinks, if you are so inclined, we have a great craft beer menu, I am partial to the laguanitas.

Who Holds Course Record and What Was Their Score?
That would be me, 65 from the back tees. A funny note, it was beat the pro against a large senior group that plays here, and 7 guys beat me with their handicap.......you can do the math. :)

Back Tee Stats
Par: 72
Yardage: 6761
Slope: 132
Rating: 72.5

More Information
Arrowhead Golf Club
26W151 Butterfield Rd
Wheaton, IL, 60189
630-653-5800
www.arrowheadgolfclub.org

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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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