Top NY Golf Destination is Reopening Award-Winning Courses By Brian Weis

Top NY Golf Destination is Reopening Award-Winning Courses

Publicly opening throughout the month of April 2021

By Brian Weis

In time for the spring season, Upstate New York's Turning Stone Resort Casino has announced that its numerous award-winning golf courses will be made available once again to resort guests and the public throughout the month of April.

Recognized as a top destination for premium golfing experiences, the resort has released the following schedule to the notice of golfers across the nation.

Friday, April 16th - Shenendoah and Sandstone Hollow
Both courses designed by golf icon Rick Smith, Sandstone Hollow's challenging nine-hole course winds through natural New York woods and wetlands - while Shenendoah offers
18-holes of PGA-level golf amidst sweeping open pastures that capture the links feel.

Friday, April 23rd - Kaluhyat
Named as one of the Top 100 Best Casino Courses by Golfweek, Kaluhyat features 18-holes designed to test players accuracy and strategy, with rolling greens that change in elevation and reach up to 50 feet in some areas.

Friday, April 30th - Atunyote
A vast 18-hole course featuring placid lakes and streams, rolling hills, and open fairway - Atunyote has been home to the Turning Stone Resort Championship, the PGA Professional National Championship, as well as the BC Open.

Turning Stone's courses are set to open after having been recognized by numerous recent awards, including being named as one of the Best Golf Resorts in the Americas in the Northeast by Golf Digest, and with the Golf Channel's Golf Advisor ranking Kaluhyat, Shenendoah, and
Atunyote as the Top Three Best Courses in New York. Turning Stone's player-friendly Pleasant Knolls golf course is already open.

As with all Turning Stone features and offerings, the courses will operate under enhanced health and safety protocols to ensure maximum safety and comfort for players. Guests are encouraged to review the resort's comprehensive health and safety plan, Safer Together, to prepare before arriving.

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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.