The Loop at Chaska By Brian Weis

The Loop at Chaska

Opening Fall of 2022

By Brian Weis

The Loop at Chaska is a first for the world of golf, a golf course designed to be accessible to everyone. Non-Profit Barrier Free Golf worked in partnership with the City of Chaska to breathe new life into the land that used to house the Chaska Par 30.

At the Loop, golfers will experience quality golf architecture, a welcoming atmosphere, and fun. Our architect, Benjamin Warren, drew inspiration from some of the best courses in the world to create excellent green surrounds that will present challenges for the experienced, low handicapper AND will introduce beginners to quality golf course architecture.

The Loop at Chaska will become a national demonstration project that showcases how golf course design can enable access to golf by appealing to new populations - especially golfers with physical and sensory impairments.

The course built the Loop with four important goals in mind:
* Accessibility - Making disability access a primary design feature.
* Environmental sustainability - carefully managing water, herbicide, and pesticide use. The Loop will become a showcase and laboratory that integrates the latest golf industry research in sustainable management and environmental impact.
* Financial sustainability - a design that allows simpler maintenance practices that minimize turf costs.
* Fun - a course that is fun for all playing abilities through the construction of world-class putting surfaces, wall-to-wall short grass, and no bunkers.

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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.