Cherry Hills Country Club Names New PGA Head Pro and General Manager/COO By Brian Weis

Cherry Hills Country Club Names New PGA Head Pro and General Manager/COO

By Brian Weis

Historic Cherry Hills Country Club, has named Andrew Shuck PGA Head Professional and Lance Sabella General Manager/COO, as the iconic club approaches its centennial anniversary.

Shuck becomes the seventh head pro in the club's 99-year history, and will oversee all golf operations, including tournaments, events and outings, membership programming, instruction and merchandising. One of America's most sought-after club professionals, he comes from 10 years as head professional at Charlotte (N.C.) Country Club and also served in the same position at Ocean Forest Golf Club in Sea Island, Ga., and McArthur Golf Club in Hobe Sound, Fla.

"I am honored and very excited," says Shuck. "The club's history is one of tradition, championships and a great membership. I look forward to working with everyone at the club and the entire membership, as we embark on the next chapter of the club's long-standing history." Shuck graduated in 1995 from Methodist University in Fayetteville, N.C., an accredited PGA of America Professional Golf Management University, and earned his PGA Membership in 2000. He was also the recipient of the prestigious Carolina PGA Section Bill Strausbaugh Award in 2017.

Sabella, a Certified Club Manager, comes directly from Lakeside Golf Club in Los Angeles, Calif., where he's been the General Manager since 2004. There he was selected for a national Club Manager of the Year Award in 2011. Before then, he was General Manager at Wood Ranch Golf Club in Simi Valley Calif., and worked at high-end properties in Orange County, Calif., including Dove Canyon Country Club and Marbella Country Club.

"I feel very fortunate to have the opportunity to go from an historic club like Lakeside to another, Cherry Hills Country Club," says Sabella. "I am excited to be part of a world-class club that has rightfully earned a significant place in golf's landscape. It's a special time at Cherry Hills, with the building of a new $56 million clubhouse that will serve as a home away from home for an amazing membership as the club enters its next century, along with serving as host to the 2023 U.S Amateur Championship. Everyone here has been so welcoming and I'm proud to call it home."

Cherry Hills will celebrate its 100th Anniversary next year by opening its newly redesigned 96,000-square-foot clubhouse and entering the final stages of its course renovations by Renaissance Golf Design and Eric Iverson. The club will also host the U.S. Amateur in 2023. "This is an exciting time in the history of Cherry Hills Country Club, and it was very important for our membership to find the right people who can work with us to navigate the club through these exciting projects and events", says Cherry Hills Country Club President Dave Lee. "We are very excited to have Andrew and Lance join us, and believe we have the right people to lead our club well into the 21st century."

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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.