Interview With Brian Dumler PGA Head Golf Professional SentryWorld By Brian Weis

Interview With Brian Dumler PGA Head Golf Professional SentryWorld

A Light Hearted Golf Q & A Interview

By Brian Weis

Below is an interview with Brian Dumler, PGA Head Golf Professional at SentryWorld. Brian has been the head professional at SentryWorl since 1995 and a PGA member since 1992. 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?
I lived across the street from a public golf course. The owner of the course purchased the old library in town and moved the building just inside the fence and rented it as a house. He had to remove some of the fence for the renters to drive their cars in and out. I snuck in and played golf and practiced on the closest green from the time I was 8 or 9 years old until my mid teens. My parents did not play but I was lucky we lived where we did.

What is your current home course?
SentryWorld GC, Stevens Point

To date, what is your proudest golf accomplishment?
Being named the WIPGA Golf Professional of the year in 2002.

What is your biggest golf pet peeve on or off the course?
Poor etiquette.

What is your favorite club in your bag and why?
Driver. I have always felt comfortable and confident with the driver.

What is your favorite golf destination? Scotland

What course is on your bucket list that you have not played yet?
I have played about 35 of the top 100 on the Golf Digest list. I have not played the Chicago Golf Club yet.

If you woke up tomorrow and could play one course you played before, where would you play?
St Andrews

If you could change one aspect, rule or thing about golf, what would it be and why?
That golf would take off again and become popular with all ages.

Dream foursome (living)?
Some of my favorite musicians like the guys from Iron Maiden

Dream foursome (living or dead)?
Walter Hagen, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead

18 Rapid Fire, Off The Cuff Questions

1) Hitting Long Drive OR Sinking Long Putt?
Sinking long putt

2) Having Round of Life OR Hole in One?
Round of life

3) Golfing at the crack of dawn OR twilight?
Twilight

4) Hit a power fade OR power draw?
Power fade

5) Beverage cart OR halfway house?
Halfway house

6) Bathroom OR bushes?
Bathroom, wouldn't admit to bushes

7) Hot dog OR wrap?
Hot dog

8) Around the green, being in sand OR thick rough?
Sand

9) Walking OR riding?
If its a top course would rather walk with caddy

10) Do you carry traditional 3 iron OR hybrid?
Hybrid

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

12) Pants OR Shorts?
Pants. I'm a traditionalist plus pro's can't wear shorts

13) Palmer OR Nicklaus?
Nicklaus. Wasn't old enough to see Arnie in his prime.

14) Beatles OR Elvis?
Beatles

15) Play for fun OR play for money?
Fun

16) Bump and run OR flop shot?
Bump and run.

17) Lay up OR gamble?
Usually a lay up. if I'm not keeping score definately gamble.

18) 18 holes OR 36?
Wouldn't mind 36

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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.