Jason (far right) and Family

Interview With Jayson Wulf Director Of Hospitality Spirit Hollow Golf Course

A Light Hearted Golf Q & A Interview

By Brian Weis

Below is an interview with Jayson Wulf, the Director Of Hospitality at Spirit Hollow Golf Course. The following are a few traditional and non traditional golf centric questions that I love to ask influential people in the golf industry.

Can you provide our readers a brief biography?
I have been golfing since I was 12 years old. My entire life I have either been playing golf or working in the golf industry. My summers in college were spent working at a golf course and my first job after college was working at a golf course in Houston, TX.

When did you start golfing and who introduced you to the game?
I started golfing around the age of 12. My dad introduced me to the game, and we would go and play on the weekends as much as possible. My fondest memory is golfing with my dad at a Par 3 golf course in my hometown. This course is where I learned to love the game of golf.

What is your current home course?
Spirit Hollow in Burlington, IA

To date, what is your proudest golf accomplishment?
Getting to meet all the people that I have encountered at every job I have had in golf. I have learned so much from so many people!

What is your biggest golf pet peeve on or off the course?
Not repairing ball marks on the greens!

What is your favorite club in your bag and why?
My Spider Putter. Only because it is in the colors of the school I graduated from. Go Cyclones!

What is your favorite golf destination?
Gulf Shores, AL

What course is on your bucket list that you have not played yet?
TPC Sawgrass

If you woke up tomorrow and could play one course you played before, where would you play?
Arcadia Bluffs in Arcadia, MI

If you could change one aspect, rule or thing about golf, what would it be and why?
Golf is the perfect game!

Dream foursome (living)?
Anybody in my family that loves to golf!

Dream foursome (living or dead)?
Just one more round with my dad!

Favorite 19th hole drink?
Jack Daniels and Diet Sprite

18 Rapid Fire, Off The Cuff Questions

1) Hitting Long Drive OR Sinking Long Putt?
Long Putt

2) Having Round of Life OR Hole in One?
Hole in One

3) Golfing at the crack of dawn OR twilight?
Crack of Dawn

4) Hit a power fade OR power draw?
Power Draw

5) Beverage cart OR halfway house?
Beverage Cart

6) Bathroom OR bushes?
Either. When you gotta go, you gotta go!

7) Hot dog OR wrap?
Wrap

8) Around the green, being in sand OR thick rough?
Sand

9) Walking OR riding?
riding

10) Do you carry traditional 3 iron OR hybrid?
Hybrid

11) Do you prefer long par 3 OR long par 5?
Long par 5

12) Pants OR Shorts?
shorts

13) Palmer OR Nicklaus?
Palmer

14) Beatles OR Elvis?
Elvis

15) Play for fun OR play for money?
Fun

16) Bump and run OR flop shot?
Flop Shot

17) Lay up OR gamble?
Gamble

18) 18 holes OR 36?
18 holes. A drink. Then maybe 9 more.

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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.