Chuck Faust

Interview With Chuck Faust, President of aboutGolf, Ltd

A Light Hearted Golf Q & A Interview

By Brian Weis

Below is an interview with Chuck Faust, President of aboutGolf, Ltd - a golfer since the age of 10 and a varsity letterman in golf for 3 years in high school and 4 years in college. Golf took a far back seat during most of his career in high technology. Now, he is trying to play more again in my role at aboutGolf - especially in their simulators.

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?
At the age of ten I began playing on a local public links with my father and older brothers. I borrowed clubs until I got my own set at the age of 13 - Haig Ultras.

What is your current home course?
Stone Oak Country Club - Holland, Ohio

To date, what is your proudest golf accomplishment?
A tie, winning the MIAA conference team championship at Adrian College or the junior city championship in Charlevoix, Michigan.

What is your biggest golf pet peeve on or off the course?
Another tie, Slow play and failure of golfers to repair divots on fairways and greens.

What is your favorite golf destination?
Hawaii - any of the islands, they are all magnificent places to play golf.

What course is on your bucket list that you have not played yet?
Augusta National - of course!

If you woke up tomorrow and could play one course you played before, where would you play?
Belevedere Golf Club - Charlevoix, Michigan - designed by Willie Watson in 1925, it is a favorite of mine and a course I played frequently in my youth.

If you could change one aspect, rule or thing about golf, what would it be and why?
Golf is a great game for young people. It gets them up from in front of televisions and computer screens and actively building physical and mental skills and, perhaps most importantly, learning some truly important aspects of character - integrity and sportsmanship. However, our biggest challenge, is that the game is very inaccessible to young people. I would love to see a much more unified way - perhaps led by the USGA - for young people to get access to the game on a consistent basis that effectively engages them and gets the game back into a growth mode.

Dream foursome (living)?
Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Rory McIlroy, and Ricky Fowler - The greats of the recent past and the greats of the future.

Dream foursome (living or dead)?
Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, and Arnold Palmer - legends of the game.

18 Rapid Fire, Off The Cuff Questions

1) Hitting Long Drive OR Sinking Long Putt?
Sinking the putt - that's what gets the dough.

2) Having Round of Life OR Hole in One?
The round of a lifetime - it's not the single shot that counts most, it's putting them all together.

3) Golfing at the crack of dawn OR twilight?
Dawn - I will always be a morning man.

4) Hit a power fade OR power draw?
Fade - can't disown the reality of my game.

5) Beverage cart OR halfway house?
The cart, they come more frequently than the house. ;-)

6) Bathroom OR bushes?
Either - you have to do what you have to do.

7) Hot dog OR wrap?
Hot dog - I hate those sprouts on wraps.

8) Around the green, being in sand OR thick rough?
The sand unless its buried, no one should be buried.

9) Walking OR riding?
Riding - Blackhawk CC in Danville, California broke me from walking.

10) Do you carry traditional 3 iron OR hybrid?
Hybrid - had the iron until I won a hybrid. Now, I wouldn't go back.

11) Do you prefer long par 3 OR long par 5?
Long par 5 - still think I have some length

12) Pants OR Shorts?
Shorts, the humidity in Ohio is not to be faced in pants.

13) Palmer OR Nicklaus?
Nicklaus - the record speaks for itself

14) Beatles OR Elvis?
Beatles

15) Play for fun OR play for money?
Play for fun - have you seen the market lately?

16) Bump and run OR flop shot?
Bump and run - spent a lot of time in Texas.

17) Lay up OR gamble?
Lay up - I was traumatized by Tin Cup.

18) 18 holes OR 36?
Walking - 18, in a cart - 36

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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.