Manchester CC VT Pro to compete at PGA Pro Championship By Brian Weis

Manchester CC VT Pro to compete at PGA Pro Championship

New Chair of VGA Junior Golf will Compete at PGA Professional Championship April 17-20

By Brian Weis

Pete Weatherby, Head Golf Pro at Manchester Country Club (VT), enters his second season with the wind at his back and hopes the momentum will serve him well at the PGA Professional Championship in Austin TX, April 17-20 at OMNI Barton Creek Fazio Foothills & Coore Crenshaw Cliffside Courses.

Weatherby earned a spot at the prestigious national championship finishing in the Top 12 at the 2021 New England PGA Section Championship at Worcester Country Club and Marlborough Country Club. He will tee off among 300 of the top PGA Club Professionals in the U.S. when they compete in Austin. The four-round stroke play tournament which will air on Golf Channel, has 20 qualifying spots for the 2022 PGA Championship, one of the four major championships of golf.

"I am excited to represent Manchester Country Club and New England on the national stage," said Weatherby. "The New England PGA Section Championship includes 200 PGA Professionals so earning a spot in my first year competing at the NEPGA Sectional is really a special honor for me."

In addition to Weatherby's success as a player, he has proven himself an executive of the game, having recently been named Chair of the Vermont PGA's Junior Golf Program. He also led Manchester CC to industry honors as the Top Merchandiser in Vermont for 2021 as MCC operations experienced a 35 percent increase in retail sales.
"Pete's enthusiasm, energy and forward thinking have energized our golf program and club operations. He's enhanced our retail offerings, become well sought after for lessons and delivered some outstanding programs for juniors, families, and golfers of all levels," said Michelle Dougherty, CCM General Manager/COO, MCC. "We're so proud of his achievements in such a short time and wish him well at the 2021 PNC in Austin."

Prior to joining MCC in 2021, Weatherby was the Assistant Pro for three years at Ekwanok Country Club, He also worked at the Jupiter Island Club (FL), The Misquamicut (RI) Club and Old Sandwich (MA) Golf Club. Weatherby has been involved in instruction and all facets of golf operations over the past decade. His accomplished playing career includes first place finishes at the 2021 Vermont PGA Match Play Championship 2019 Vermont Stroke Play Championship, The Mountain Lake Challenge in Lake Wales, Florida in 2017, the NEPGA Stroke Play at Montcalm Golf Club in 2018 and NEPGA Stroke Play at Turner Hill Golf Club in 2016. He was also runner up in the 2019 National Rental Car PGA Assistant Championship, finished fourth in the Rhode Island Open in 2019 and had a top ten finish in the 2018 New England Open Championship.

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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.