Randy Towner

Interview With Randy Towner General Manager/Head Golf Professional Firekeeper Golf Course

A Light Hearted Golf Q & A Interview

By Brian Weis

Below is an interview with Randy Towner Midwest Section PGA Player of the Year 1983 Midwest Section PGA senior player of the Year 2007 Senior US Open 2007 Spalding National Teacher of the Year 1995 Mid West PGA Professional of the Year 2010

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?
Following my father and his group playing on weekends and during the summer. I looked for golf balls and later starting hitting the ball myself. Age 5 It was fun to spend time with Dad and greens were awesome. Couldn't figure out why our yard didn't look like that

What is your current home course?
Firekeeper Golf Mayetta Kansas

To date, what is your proudest golf accomplishment?
Two

#1 winning player of the year our first daughter was born and then winning senior player of the year when our last daughter left home. The years inbetween were the best.

#2 golf professional of the year 2010

What is your biggest golf pet peeve on or off the course?
Slow play and third party tee time providers

What is your favorite club in your bag and why?
My putter! It is a long JA Corvi Pinseeker that I have had for 25 years never changed

What is your favorite golf destination?
Pine Valley or Augusta but I have been very spoiled and lucky.

What course is on your bucket list that you have not played yet?
Old Head

If you woke up tomorrow and could play one course you played before, where would you play?
Chicago Golf

If you could change one aspect, rule or thing about golf, what would it be and why?
It shouldn't take so long

Dream foursome (living)?
That's easy I have three daughters!

Dream foursome (living or dead)?
Tom Morris, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus

18 Rapid Fire, Off The Cuff Questions

1) Hitting Long Drive OR Sinking Long Putt?
Long Putt they are great equalizers

2) Having Round of Life OR Hole in One?
Round of life

3) Golfing at the crack of dawn OR twilight? Crack of dawn

4) Hit a power fade OR power draw?
Anything with the word Power in front of it

5) Beverage cart OR halfway house?
Halfway house

6) Bathroom OR bushes?
Bushes just outside the bathroom?

7) Hot dog OR wrap?
Wrap

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

9) Walking OR riding?
Walk

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

11) Do you prefer long par 3 OR long par 5? Nothing with the word long in front of it

12) Pants OR Shorts?
Pants

13) Palmer OR Nicklaus?
Nicklaus

14) Beatles OR Elvis?
Beatles

15) Play for fun OR play for money?
Both

16) Bump and run OR flop shot?
Flop

17) Lay up OR gamble?
Gamble

18) 18 holes OR 36?
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.