Interview With Jeff Moore PGA Director of Golf Finkbine Golf Course By Brian Weis

Interview With Jeff Moore PGA Director of Golf Finkbine Golf Course

A Light Hearted Golf Q & A Interview

By Brian Weis

Below is an interview with Jeff Moore, the PGA Director of Golf at Finkbine Golf Course. The following are a few traditional and non traditional golf centric questions that I love to ask influential people in the golf industry.

Can you provide our readers a brief biography?
PGA member for 20 years. Enjoy teaching the game to new players and seeing their excitement as they accomplish new goals with their game. Service oriented professional who enjoys interacting and getting to know our patrons. My first 18 years in the golf business were in Overland Park, Kansas at the busy daily-fee St. Andrews Public Golf Course. The past four year's I've run operations for the University of Iowa Finkbine Golf Course, home to the men's and women's golf teams.

When did you start golfing and who introduced you to the game?
I started playing at about 7 years old. My mom got me some lessons early on. My grandfather belonged to a 9-hole Elks Club and I started taking lessons there in the summer and would then get to play 9 holes with him in the afternoons. I played golf with him for almost 20 years. One of my favorite memories was surprising him on his 90th birthday by flying home and golfing with him. He also played in my bachelor party scramble in 2004 at the young age of 91.

What is your current home course?
Finkbine Golf Course in Iowa City, Iowa.

To date, what is your proudest golf accomplishment?
Working 18 years at the same facility at St. Andrews in Overland Park, KS.

What is your biggest golf pet peeve on or off the course?
People that take more than one practice swing hoping to execute the same shot they just practiced, only to hit a poor shot.

What is your favorite club in your bag and why?
56 degree 20+ year old beryllium copper sand wedge. I just have great feel with that club.

What is your favorite golf destination?
Bandon Dunes in Oregon.

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?
Pacific Dunes in Oregon

If you could change one aspect, rule or thing about golf, what would it be and why?
None

Dream foursome (living)?
Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer

Dream foursome (living or dead)?
same

18 Rapid Fire, Off The Cuff Questions

1) Hitting Long Drive OR Sinking Long Putt?
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

7) Hot dog OR wrap?
Wrap

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

9) Walking OR riding?
Riding

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

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

12) Pants OR Shorts?
Pants

13) Palmer OR Nicklaus?
Nicklaus

14) Beatles OR Elvis?
Beatles

15) Play for fun OR play for money?
Fun

16) Bump and run OR flop shot?
flop

17) Lay up OR gamble?
Lay up

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.