Interview With Duncan Geddes PGA Professional and General Manager Aldeen Golf Club

A Light Hearted Golf Q & A Interview

By Brian Weis

Below is an interview with Duncan Geddes, the PGA Professional and General Manager at Aldeen Golf Club. The following are a few traditional and non traditional golf centric questions that I love to ask influential people in the golf industry.

Can you provide our readers a brief biography?
Head professional at Aldeen Golf Club since 1991. PGA Class A member since 1990. 1989 graduate of Ferris State University, Professional Golf Management program.

When did you start golfing and who introduced you to the game?
When I was 9 playing golf with my mom and brother.

What is your current home course? A
ldeen Golf Club

To date, what is your proudest golf accomplishment?
Being named the Head Golf Professional at Aldeen Golf Club

What is your biggest golf pet peeve on or off the course?
Not fixing ball marks!

What is your favorite club in your bag and why?
My sand wedge because it gets me out of a lot of trouble!

What is your favorite golf destination?
Southwest Florida

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

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

If you could change one aspect, rule or thing about golf, what would it be and why?
Dropping a ball in a bunker. It's just a bad rule.

Dream foursome (living)?
Holly Saunders and two of her friends! I'm not big on celebrities.

Dream foursome (living or dead)?
My mom, Norris Aldeen and maybe Hogan!

18 Rapid Fire, Off The Cuff Questions

1) Hitting Long Drive OR Sinking Long Putt?
Long put

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

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

4) Hit a power fade OR power draw?
Draw

5) Beverage cart OR halfway house?
Beverage cart

6) Bathroom OR bushes?
First available

7) Hot dog OR wrap?
Dog

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

9) Walking OR riding?
Walking with my son as my caddy.

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

11) Do you prefer long par 3 OR long par 5?
Long par 5

12) Pants OR Shorts?
Shorts if could wear them. I should have been a tennis pro!

13) Palmer OR Nicklaus?
Jack

14) Beatles OR Elvis?
Beatles

15) Play for fun OR play for money?
A little action with friends is the best.

16) Bump and run OR flop shot?
Flop

17) Lay up OR gamble?
Lay up

18) 18 holes OR 36?
18 with a bite to eat and beers to follow!

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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.