Bos Landen Golf Club

Getting To Know: Bos Landen Golf Club

An Insightful Interview With Scott Reuter, GM/PGA Profesional

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 Scott Reuter 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
Over 200 acres of the most scenic golf holes you have ever played. Voted as one of the most valuable golf courses and rated 4 1/2 stars by Golf Digest. We have 5 sets of tees to choose from for every level of golfer. This is not your typical "Iowa" Golf Course. The course is carved out of trees hence the name Bos Landen which stands for "Land of the Woods" in Dutch. One of the greatest golf tests in Iowa and is always highly recommended by anyone who plays the course.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?
This is a Championship golf course at a lot less price. The greens are always the best in the state and the rest of the golf course is finely manicured where there is never a reason to blame course conditions for your round. Coupled with a great restaurant and Conference Center, along with a Hotel across the street, this is a golfing retreat for any golfer.

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
As they always say, drive for show putt for dough. If you keep the ball in play, your score will show it. This is a course where if you get off the beaten path, you will pay the price. Greens have a lot of undulation but never play as much break as you might think.

Recent Awards or What You Are Most Proud About The Course?
4 1/2 stars by Golf Digest and also warded as most valuable course by Golf Digest

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
Hole #14. It is the #1 Handicapped hole, most talked about hole, most photographed hole and our signature hole. I think it is because of the beauty from tee to green. It is the most difficult hole that you will face, but are able to see everything in front of you. You tee off at one of the highest points of the course and working your way down to 2 different landing areas and then back up another 20-30 feet to an elevated green that leaves you exhausted. The beauty of this hole has everything from the tree lined fairways to the elevation changes and colors.

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It?
Hole #4. I enjoy the water that runs the entire length of the right side of the fairway and then crosses over in front of the green to give you that constant thought of a water hazard and protected by an elevated green with a deep faced bunker strategically placed in the middle of the approach. The best way to play this hole is to snug the left side of the fairway as much as you can so you can hit as much club as you can off the tee so that you have a short iron in your hand for your approach. The higher you come in on your approach, the better chance you have at getting to any pin on this severely sloped green.

Must Have Dish or Drink after the round at the 19th Hole?
Some of the best burgers you will have. However, our Bos Porkloin, The Griller or Chicken Wrap or arguably the fan favorite.

Who Holds Course Record and What Was Their Score?
I have never been told. Supposedly a 64 was shot in a Pro-Am when the course was being renovated and the par was 71. Nobody can tell me his name. Sorry!!!

Back Tee Stats
Par: 72
Yardage: 6937
Slope: 136
Rating: 74.7

More Information
Bos Landen Golf Club
2411 Bos Landen Drive
Pella, IA, 50219
641-628-4625
www.boslanden.com

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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.

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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.

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