Champions Pointe Golf Club to Host PGA Tour Stage 1 Qualifying School By Brian Weis

Champions Pointe Golf Club to Host PGA Tour Stage 1 Qualifying School

Premier "Kentuckiana" public golf course to serve as the first step for aspiring golfers to reach the PGA Tour

By Brian Weis

Champions Pointe Golf Club announced today that they will host one of the PGA Tour Q-School events, to be held Oct. 20-25, 2024. PGA Tour Stage 1 Q-School is the first step for aspiring golf professionals and amateurs to earn their spot on the 2025 PGA Tour.

The field of talented golfers historically includes an international roster of top-ranked players - with only a portion of those moving on to Stage 2 qualifying. Held annually since 1965, Q-school remains one of the options for advancing to the PGA Tour. Past PGA Tour players who qualified through Q-school include J.B. Holmes, Brendon Todd, Mike Weir, and Paul Azinger.

"We are honored to host the PGA Tour Q-School at Champions Pointe," said General Manager Chris Tuohey. "We are looking forward to seeing how some of the best professional and amateur golfers compete on our beautiful and challenging course."

Built in 2007 and designed by two-time major championship winner Fuzzy Zoeller, Champions Pointe is a 7,174-yard, par-72 golf course that carves through the natural landscape of Southern Indiana. The golf course includes multiple natural lakes and strategically placed bunkers add to the strategic value of the challenging and fair golf course.

Champions Pointe Golf Club is owned and managed by Northbrook, Ill.-based KemperSports.

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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.