Bridgewater Golf Club

Getting To Know: Bridgewater Golf Club

An Insightful Interview With Ivan Foster, PGA, 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 Ivan Foster, PGA 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
Bridgewater Golf Club is an 18-hole championship golf course that was built in 1999. The course features large, undulated greens and water that comes into play on 15 of the 18 holes.

Bridgewater offers a full service Golf Shop, driving range, dedicated short game area and large putting green.

The Water's Edge is our full service restaurant located within the clubhouse and handles all of the food & beverage needs for restaurant customers, golfers, golf outings, weddings and banquets.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?
Bridgewater Golf Club offers the ability to play any of our five sets of tees making it enjoyable for players of all abilities including women. The Cedar Creek and 3 covered bridges that take golfers around the course offer added beauty to the meticulously manicured fairways, tees and greens.

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
With water traversing much of the property it is always a good idea to check out the yardage guide to determine if driver is the right play from the tee. Sacrificing a few extra yards may help save a few extra shots!

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
Hole #18 is our signature hole. It is a lengthy Par 5 that requires a solid tee shot to avoid the trees that line the fairway on both sides.
If you are fortunate enough to find the fairway, don't let your guard down as the next two shots are among the most difficult on the course.

Trees continue to line the length of the hole and a decision must be made for the second shot to either lay up short of a pond that encroaches from the left or to try and place your shot into the narrow sliver of fairway next to the pond.

Your approach shot will need to navigate a small creek short of the green and a small pond and bunker to the right. And finally, this is one of the most difficult greens on the course to read. Par here is an excellent score!!

Must Have Dish or Drink after the round at the 19th Hole?
The Water's Edge always has a large selection of micro and specialty brewed beers available to choose from. If there is a slight chill in the air, be sure to try our famous New England Clam Choder, available everyday!

Who Holds Course Record and What Was Their Score?
Black Tees - 67 Silver Tees - 64 Blue Tees - 62

Back Tee Stats
Par: 72
Yardage: 7272
Slope: 136
Rating: 75.3

More Information
Bridgewater Golf Club
1818 Morningstar Road
Auburn, IN, 46706
260-925-8184
www.bridgewatergolf.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.