Scovill Golf Course

Getting To Know: Scovill Golf Course

An Insightful Interview With Rick Anderson, Director of Golf

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 Rick Anderson 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
Built in 1927 by Tom Bendelow remodeled by Dick Nugent 1992 with all modern golf course design features. Shorter tree lined fairways, great risk reward birdies and eagles are there but so are the triple and double bogeys.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?
Large oak trees, no fairway bunkers and greens are great.

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
All putts break towards the creek

Recent Awards or What You Are Most Proud About The Course?
Voted twice top 100 Women's friendly course

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
Number ten 450 yard par four, tree line tee shot with a creek running the length of the hole on left and fronted by a pond making the second shot demanding all carry.

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It?
Number 16, par three ranging 125 to 208 front to back, left bunker is mirror image of green shape and the three right side bunkers are like church pews...one of the best designed holes in the area, cut into the hillside blending in with the natural setting.

Must Have Dish or Drink after the round at the 19th Hole?
Pizza, 6 inch individual size, sausage / cheese the best

Who Holds Course Record and What Was Their Score?
Kurt Rogers 59 and Hilary Anderson 62

Back Tee Stats
Par: 71
Yardage: 5925
Slope: 119
Rating: 68.4

More Information
Scovill Golf Course
3909 West Main
Decatur, IL 62522
217-429-6243
golfdecatur.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.

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.