Beltway Golfer

Striving to elevate a Division 1 golf program to new heights as a first-time coach takes a tremendous amount of passion and work.  Coach Greg Pieczynski was hired to lead the George Mason team just prior to the pandemic shutting down sports around the country and ever since has been managing all aspects of the […]

Wearing multiple hats in the world of golf as both the founder of a consultancy to brands & companies in the golf space as well as co-founding a player agency, Nick Green has points of view into this game from all sorts of angles.  His career began in his native UK representing up-and-coming players that […]

As general manager for the past fourteen years at Golfdom, Matt Trenton has been a mainstay at the long-standing Tyson’s retailer. Earlier this year, the business agreed to be acquired by Worldwide Golf Shops, a Bethesda-based parent company of several well-known golf retailers throughout the country. Matt joins the podcast to discuss what went into […]

A fixture on the grounds of Langston Golf Course for the past three decades, Ray Savoy’s contributions to golf in DC have been significant.  The DC native is in the US Golf Teachers Federation Hall of Fame and founded the Langston Boys & Girls Golf Club in 1990 despite only coming to the game of […]

As Ocean City, Maryland’s golf course development started to boom in the early 90’s, Bobby Vermillion saw an opportunity to merge his love of golf with his advertising sales career and start a television show to help promote the area as a golf destination.  Thirty years and still going strong, Bobby has been the face […]

Putting together charity golf outings where attendees not only enjoy themselves and want to come back, but fundraising goals are consistently hit can be a tricky endeavor.  Walter Kirkland puts together several tournaments each year for both organizations he runs or is a part of as well as events where he is hired simply to […]

Responsible for some of the highest profile golf course renovation & restorations in the country right now, Andrew Green’s profile has risen dramatically over the past several years.  His transformational work on Congressional’s Blue Course is getting it’s first look from a national audience this week for the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. Andrew called into […]

Despite being retired from tour golf for six years as well as having her first child just a few months earlier, Jenny Suh Thompson grabbed the lone qualifying spot for the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at the PGA Stroke Play in February.  Congressional is a homecoming for the former junior golf standout from Fairfax, who […]

Brought on to lead the maintenance & grounds teams prior to the renovation of the Blue Course, Pete Wendt and his staff have had extremely busy few years.  First working hand in hand with the architecture team, the builders & contractors during the course transformation and re-opening just last year.  And now ensuring the course […]

When the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship comes to town next week, it will not only be the first in a series of PGA of America championships to be hosted at Congressional Country Club over the next decade and a half, but it will also be an unveiling to a televised global audience of the Blue […]

Created to bring together golfers with all types of disabilities to compete in a single national open, Jason Faircloth and the United States Disabled Golf Association brought the 2022 event to Laurel Hill GC in Lorton, VA.   Golfers from all over the country and a wide range of impairments competed this week for 54 holes […]

Launched in 2015 by a pair of grad school pals that saw a gap in premium apparel in the pro shop, Holderness & Bourne has grown from four early pro shops stocking their shirts to now over 1000 accounts and growing offering belts, hats, bags, pullovers and more. Headquartered in New York, founders Alex Holderness […]

While many prominent black golfers from the mid-20th century had significant roles in knocking down golf’s color barrier, Charlie Sifford is often referred to as the Jackie Robinson of golf for being the first African-American to be a card-carrying member of the PGA Tour and contributing to the removal of the PGA’s shameful Caucasian-only clause, […]

This Memorial Day weekend the Mid-Atlantic PGA along with the PGA of America is engaging in a nationwide fundraising effort to support veterans and increase opportunities to expose them to golf. As part of the PGA HOPE program courses throughout the region and country will be helping raise funds and awareness of their programs geared […]

Having won at every level from junior golf while at Georgetown Prep, to global amateur events while at the University of Virginia & later the Korn Ferry Tour championship, it seems just a matter of time before the Montgomery County native & five-year PGA Tour veteran, Denny McCarthy finds the winner’s circle at the highest […]

The preparation that goes into getting a golf course ready to host a PGA Tour event requires a tremendous amount of planning & coordination, to ensure conditions are ideal when the tour pros visit and throngs of attendees pack the grounds.  Leading this effort at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm is Tim Connolly, who along […]

While it would be true to say that Billy Hurley III’s win on the PGA Tour put him on a very short list of winners at the highest level of golf from the capital region, that fact is hardly what makes that win & his career so unique.  Having served 5 years in active service […]

Not many caddies on the PGA Tour are as well known & well respected as Jim “Bones” Mackay.  After 25 years working with Phil Mickelson, his perspective on the game reached new heights spending 4 years on the NBC/Golf Channel broadcast team, receiving seemingly universal approval for his contributions as a tournament commentator.  This past […]

The Mid-Atlantic Section of the PGA has been serving its membership comprised of over 1100 PGA Professionals throughout Maryland, DC & Virginia for almost a century. The MAPGA maintains a wide range of responsibilities, including running an extensive tournament schedule, a robust junior golf program & assistance in a variety of ways to its membership.  […]

Beginning as a way for a group of college friends to stay in touch and talk golf, then evolving into a modest hustle selling extra hats and shirts, Sugarloaf Social Club has deftly leveraged social media to become a thriving business with a passionate community of golf-loving supporters. Founded by Ian Gilley & Harrison Lewis, […]

Few have had a life in golf as impactful as Deane Beman. Before a two-decade run as PGA Tour Commissioner where he ushered the sport from small-purses and minimal television coverage to major network deals and the big dollars that go with it, he was a standout golfer in his own right. Twice he qualified […]

Sustainability in the game of golf is an increasingly relevant multi-faceted topic within the industry.  Andrew Szunyog is the DC-based co-founder of Driving The Green, a golf sustainability consultantcy.  At next week’s Symposium on Municipal Golf,  Andrew will be leading a panel on the subject, covering a wide-range of how golf courses can help themselves […]

The land that Laurel Hill Golf Course sits on in Lorton, Virginia has a rich history written about by Joshua Stueve in his piece titled “Ground Under Repair” in The Golfers Journal #5 (fall 2018).  During the research for the article, he interviewed Laurel Hill’s course architects from Love Golf Design, Bill Love & Brian […]

Brought into the golf course design business by his father, the prolific Ed Ault, Brian has carved out a career that is approaching 50 years with golf course work completed all around the globe.  While many of the projects Brian led in this region were renovation & course improvement jobs, his notable new-build designs include […]

Open up the current issue of Golf Digest (Sept ’21) and you will see an 8-page feature by the Club at Creighton Farms’ first ever Director of Instruction, Erika Larkin.  Having been named the #1 teacher in the state of Virginia by her peers in every vote conducted by the publication since 2014, Golf Digest […]