Dave Pelz and Chuck Garbedian

Interview With Chuck Garbedian, Host of Garbedian on Golf

A Light Hearted Golf Q & A Interview

By Brian Weis

Below is an interview with Chuck Garbedian, Executive Producer/Host of Garbedian on Golf ESPN Wisconsin. The following are a few traditional and non traditional golf centric questions that I love to ask influential people in the golf industry.

When did you start golfing and who introduced you do the game?
My Father introduced me to the game when I was 12

What is your current home course?
The Bull at Pinehurst Farms in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin (www.golfthebull.com)

To date, what is your proudest golf accomplishment?
Qualifying and playing all four rounds of the 2009 Wisconsin State Amateur at Merrill Hills CC, home of Mark Bergman's Pro Shop.

What is your biggest golf pet peeve on or off the course?
Taking FOREVER to hit a 30-yard putt out of the right rough from 150 yards out.

What is your favorite golf destination?
Scottsdale, Arizona and XONA Resort Suites, home of TPC Scottsdale, We-Ko-Pa and raconteur Tedd Maitland

What course is on your bucket list that you have not played yet?
St. Andrews and Pebble Beach

If you woke up tomorrow and could play one course you played before, where would you play?
I would take my boy Benjamin and we'd tee it up at the Alpine Country Club (a Tilinghast design) in Alpine, NJ

If you could change one aspect, rule or thing about golf, what would it be and why?
Playing a ball out of a divot in the fairway. You're penalized for hitting a GOOD shot by having a lie that at some point earlier was pristine. Nice.

Dream foursome (living)?
Benjamin Garbedian, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Dave Bachmann Jr

Dream foursome (living or dead)?
Ben Hogan, Porky Oliver, Titanic Thompson, Bobby Jones

18 Rapid Fire, Off The Cuff Questions

1) Hitting Long Drive OR Sinking Long Putt? Sink a long putt.
The Flatstick is the Great Equalizer

2) Having Round of Life OR Hole in One?
Round of your life. Anyone can make a hole in one, you have to put it ALL together to play a round

3) Golfing at the crack of dawn OR twilight?
Crack of Dawn, with 36 or 54 in front of you. Nothing better.

4) Hit a power fade OR power draw?
Power Draw. A draw doesn't listen...unless you know HOW to talk to it.

5) Beverage cart OR halfway house?
Halfway house. The Bev Cart just gets in the way and slows things down.

6) Bathroom OR bushes?
Bathroom.

7) Hot dog OR wrap?
Wrap, especially MC Hammer or Eminem

8) Around the green, being in sand OR thick rough?
Bunker Me. Nothing like a perfectly executed bunker shot

9) Walking OR riding?
Walking

10) Do you carry traditional 3 iron OR hybrid?
Hybrid Baby...what's not to love. Playability and forgiveness

11) Do you prefer long par 3 OR long par 5?
Long par 5

12) Pants OR Shorts?
Shorts

13) Palmer OR Nicklaus?
Palmer

14) Beatles OR Elvis?
Neither. How about Britney Spears especially if she's in the Halfway House

15) Play for fun OR play for money?
Money

16) Bump and run OR flop shot?
Bump & Run

17) Lay up OR gamble?
Gamble

18) 18 holes OR 36?
54. Why limit yourself when you can play it all.

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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.