Bob Neumann

Interview With Bob Neumann, Head Golf Professional, Whitnall Park

A Light Hearted Golf Q & A Interview

By Brian Weis

Below is an interview with Bob Neumann, Head Golf Professional, Whitnall Park GC. He was elected to Class A Membership of PGA of America 2001 and this is his tenth year at Whitnall Park. Bob is the current WPGA Board of Director, Investment Chair, and 2012 Horton Smith Award winner.

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?
Friend of family, age 16, I set up a makeshift green and three hole course in the backyard. Holes were 50, 65 and 75 yards. It was par 9. Only one broken window and many balls in the pool.

What is your current home course?
Whitnall Park Golf Course

To date, what is your proudest golf accomplishment?
Carding a 68 in a play with the pro day at Whitnall. Winning the 2012 Horton Smith Award from the Wisconsin PGA.

What is your biggest golf pet peeve on or off the course?
SLOW PLAY!

What is your favorite club in your bag and why?
Putter, it should be everyone's due top the fact you use it on 40% of your strokes.

What is your favorite golf destination?
Hilton Head, SC

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

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

If you could change one aspect, rule or thing about golf, what would it be and why?
Nothing

Dream foursome (living)?
Willie Nelson, Bill Maher, Tiger Woods and myself.

Dream foursome (living or dead)?
Vince Lombardi, Martin Luther King, Lou Gehrig and myself.

18 Rapid Fire, Off The Cuff Questions

1) Hitting Long Drive OR Sinking Long Putt?
PUTT !

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

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

4) Hit a power fade OR power draw?
Hit it straight!

5) Beverage cart OR halfway house?
Don't care for either, I can play without food for 4 hours.

6) Bathroom OR bushes?
Bathroom

7) Hot dog OR wrap?
Dog, chicago style

8) Around the green, being in sand OR thick rough?
Thick rough like the old days of Brown Deer GC at the GMO.

9) Walking OR riding?
Riding

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

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

12) Pants OR Shorts?
Pants!!!

13) Palmer OR Nicklaus?
Nicklaus

14) Beatles OR Elvis?
Beatles

15) Play for fun OR play for money?
$$$$

16) Bump and run OR flop shot?
Bump n run, it's scottish

17) Lay up OR gamble?
ROLL the Dice, I even have a dice headcover on my three wood.

18) 18 holes OR 36?
18

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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.