What You Need To Know: Westfields Golf Club By Brian Weis

What You Need To Know: Westfields Golf Club

An Insightful Interview With Jason Paul, 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 Jason Paul 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
Our Fred Couples-designed golf course in Northern Virginia provides an unsurpassed golfing experience for casual and accomplished players alike. Located in beautiful Clifton, Virginia, Westfields Golf Club is a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary. With no residences lining our links to intrude on the natural beauty of the course or to distract golfers from their game, Westfields offers a truly unique round of golf.
The course is characterized by dense tree-lined fairways, undulating greens and well-placed hazards, yet is more open and playable than might initially appear. With your choice of five tee boxes, it ranges from 4,600 to over 7,000 yards. It's easy to setup a tee time, get directions or contact us all online! Come visit Westfields Golf Club today for a golf experience like no other.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?
The course is characterized by dense tree-lined fairways, undulating greens and well-placed hazards, yet is more open and playable than might initially appear. With your choice of five tee boxes, it ranges from 4,600 to over 7,000 yards. It's easy to setup a tee time, get directions or contact us all online! Come visit Westfields Golf Club today for a golf experience like no other.

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
Keep it in the fairway!

Recent Awards or What You Are Most Proud About The Course?
1998-2022 Golf Digest Top 50 in VA

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
Hole #3
PAR 3 | HANDICAP 5
Westfields' Signature Hole is this par 3, playing 223 yards from the Boom-Boom tees. The tee shot must avoid the lake to the left of the green. If you choose to bail out right, you may find the large greenside bunker. Three puts are common on the large, L-shaped green.

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It?
Hole #16
PAR 4 | HANDICAP 6
A creek guards the left side of this par 4 before emptying into a pond in front of the green. A right-to-left tee shot that avoids the right side bunker will set up a middle to short-iron approach. The wide but shallow green is a rather small target, yet putts of 50 feet or better are common.

Must Have Dish or Drink after the round at the 19th Hole?
The "Boom Boom" Burger names after our owner / designer Fred Couples

For the traveling golfer, do you have lodging onsite or partner with any area hotels?
Book your perfect golf holiday at Westfields Marriott and play at Virginia's only Fred Couple's Signature Golf course, Westfields Golf Club.

The Westfields Marriott Stay & Play Package includes:
One 18-hole game at Westfields Golf Club for every night of your stay
Daily Buffet Breakfast
$25 Wellington's Dining Credit for every night of your stay
Complimentary Valet Parking
Experience winning savings and book today!

How to Book
Be sure that the Promotional Code appears in the Corporate/Promotional code box when making your online reservation, or call 1-800-627-7468 and ask for the promotional code. For toll-free numbers outside the US please visit Global Reservation Numbers

Need to Know
One game for every night of your stay
Daily Breakfast & Valet Parking
Daily $25 Wellington's Dining Credit
Promotional Code: ZJ2

Who Holds Course Record and What Was Their Score?
Fred Couples 62

Back Tee Stats
Par: 71
Yardage: 6897
Slope: 141
Rating: 73.4

More Information
Westfields Golf Club
13940 Balmoral Greens Ave
Clifton, Virginia, 20124
703-631-3300

https://www.westfieldsgolf.com/

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Revised: 11/09/2023 - Article Viewed 5,831 Times - View Course Profile

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.