Golf Travel Guide To Penn Ohio Golf Trail By Brian Weis

Golf Travel Guide To Penn Ohio Golf Trail

By Brian Weis

An Interview With Bill Rabel, General Manager from Penn Ohio Golf Trail bill@golfpinelakes.com

Give our readers an overview of your destination and why they should consider it for their next golf trip?
We Make the Plans - You Make the Putts

Are you looking for stay and play golf packages? The Penn Ohio Golf Trail features over 80 courses, including 15 private country clubs in Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. The courses offer a variety of challenges, designers, style and appeal for golfers of all skill levels.

The four historic mansions on the trail offer the most unique lodging in golf. Sleeping up to 30 golfers, the mansions have large gathering areas, big screen TV's, pool tables, shuffle boards, bocce/pickleball courts, full kitchens, and the ability to share the camaraderie and fun that isn't available in other types of lodging.

What are the must play courses in Penn Ohio Golf Trail?
The variety of courses is what completes the perfect golf package. From award winning courses like Olde Stonewall and Boulder Creek, private country clubs like Avalon Lakes, Youngstown Country Club and Lake View Country Club, to well maintained and challenging public courses, the perfect golf package can be created.

What services or information do you provide for traveling golfers?
What makes the stay and play packages unique at the Penn Ohio Golf Trail is that each package is built to fit the needs of each group and its members. With lodging in Youngstown/Warren, Canton, Cleveland, Erie, and Butler, PA there are many areas to explore. Each of these areas offers its own characteristics and golf courses. Groups are able to work with an expert from the Trail that helps build a package using the wide variety of options available.

What is the hidden gem and/or best value course?
We always offer our groups the best value we can with a package price per person that includes their lodging, golf, taxes & fees, and typically the price will include their breakfast as well depending on where they choose to stay.
Our favorite gems on the trail include courses designed by Donald Ross - Mill Creek offers 36 holes and Manakiki is another!

Can you provide our readers with an ideal itinerary for a long weekend?
With over 80 courses to choose from, including 15 private clubs, the itinerary is completely customizable to the groups needs. We can plan a trip around a specific area, course, lodging, budget, etc.
An ideal package in the Youngstown area would include lodging at one of the mansions, and golfing Avalon Lakes, Youngstown Country Club, and Pine Lakes Golf Club.

After golf, what are the "must do" things or attractions to see?
We offer our golf groups a travel guide with everything they will need to make the most of their golf trip on the Penn Ohio Golf Trail. Our guides will list things to do, places to eat, and ways to elevate their golf trip experience.

What is the best time to travel?
We book packages all year round, mainly late April to mid-October but it all depends on the weather.
We also offer winter packages including lodging and indoor simulator time.

Anything else you would like to share about the Penn Ohio Golf Trail?

Where can golfers go for more information to research and plan their trip?
For more information or to request a free stay and play package quote, visit:
www.pennohiogolftrail.com
Call 330-534-6789
Email packages@golfpinelakes.com Penn Ohio Golf Trail 330-534-6789

www.pennohiogolftrail.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.