Erin Hills: Championship-Proven and Future-Loaded By Brian Weis

Erin Hills: Championship-Proven and Future-Loaded

By Brian Weis

Erin Hills doesn't just look the part, it plays it. Already home to the 2017 U.S. Open and the upcoming 2025 U.S. Women's Open, this public-access heavyweight just locked in five more USGA championships through 2039. That's not a typo. It's a legacy in the making.

Mark Hill, USGA's managing director of championships, put it simply:
"Erin Hills has proven itself as an exceptional venue for USGA championships, and we are thrilled to bring these five events to this iconic course."

Here's what's coming:

2027 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball

2030 U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball

2033 U.S. Women's Amateur

2035 U.S. Amateur

2039 U.S. Junior Amateur

That's on top of its past resume - including the 2011 U.S. Amateur, the 2022 U.S. Mid-Amateur, and the 2008 Women's Amateur Public Links. Erin Hills now joins an elite group of just 14 courses to host (or be scheduled to host) the U.S. Open, U.S. Women's Open, U.S. Amateur, and U.S. Women's Amateur.

Owner Andy Ziegler sums it up well:
"We strongly believe in supporting and celebrating amateur golf, and these championships do exactly that."

Set on glacier-carved terrain northwest of Milwaukee, Erin Hills continues to prove that world-class golf doesn't need a private gate - just wide fairways, walkable ground, and big ambition.

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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.