North Creek Golf Course

Getting To Know: North Creek Golf Course

An Insightful Interview With John Wells, General Manager

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 John Wells 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
North Creek is an 18 hole, par 72 Championship Links Style layout with a rating of 71.2 and a slope of 125. The course features the finest Champion Bermuda greens and Mississippi Choice Bermuda Fairways. With 4 sets of tee markers, the course measures 6433 yards from the Championship tees to 4559 yards from the red tees making it a fun and accessible course. But it is not hard for even the best golfers to find trouble! North Creek has hosted many prestigious events including The NGA Hooters Tour, The John Daly Make-A-Wish & many of the Mississippi and Tennessee Junior Tour events.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
Stay below the hole on greens.

If you play the middle tees on the back nine you can get in a lot of trouble hitting driver on the par 4's.

Any recent changes to the golf course? Or any upcoming changes?
North Creek is developing a plan for our bunkers. We will begin rebuilding many of them and eliminating others.

Recent Awards or What You Are Most Proud About The Course?

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
Hole 18, is a reachable par 5 over water. The best way to get birdie is the play down the right side and attach the pin with a wedge on your third shot. Going for the green in two can result in a bogey or worse.

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It?
Holes 13 and 15 share a double green with a tunnel in the middle. It is believed to be the only double green with a tunnel running underneath the greens in the world. It is a unique set of holes.

I love hole #14, from the back tees it is a difficult. You have a blind tee shot over Horn Lake Creek. The green is two tier so your second shot needs to be percise.

Must Have Dish or Drink after the round at the 19th Hole?
The North Creek Grill serves unbelievable hamburgers. They are hot off the grill. You cannot go wrong with our bacon cheese burger.

For the traveling golfer, do you have lodging onsite or partner with any area hotels?

Who Holds Course Record and What Was Their Score?

Back Tee Stats
Par: 72
Yardage: 6433
Slope: 125
Rating: 71.2

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North Creek Golf Course 8770 N Creek Blvd Southaven, MS, 38671 662-280-4653

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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.