Dennis Fabbri Playing In the Sand

Interview With Dennis Fabbri PGA Head Professional / Owner Lakeview Hills Golf

A Light Hearted Golf Q & A Interview

By Brian Weis

Below is an interview with Dennis Fabbri, the PGA Head Professional / Owner at Lakeview Hills Golf Resort. 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?
I have been a member of the PGA since 1994. I have worked at Lakeview Hills for my entire career. I attended Lynn University in Boca Raton Florida and played college golf and graduated in 1988. I was on the team with PGA TOUR veteran Stephen Ames.

When did you start golfing and who introduced you do the game?
I started playing golf at the age of 10 when my family had purchased Lakeview Hills. I was introduced to the game of golf by myself. I would walk up to the first tee and wait for new golfers to come out each day and ask if I could join them. It was a challenge to try and beat them at a very young age.

What is your current home course?
Lakeview Hills Golf Resort in Lexington, Michigan.

To date, what is your proudest golf accomplishment?
Playing in the Michigan Open at THE BEAR in Traverse City when my father flew back from Italy at the age of 76 to surprise me and showed up to follow me along during my round.

What is your biggest golf pet peeve on or off the course?
I can't stand slow play. I am a very quick, ready now golfer and cannot stand slow play in the game of golf.

What is your favorite club in your bag and why?
I love my driver, I personally feel that hitting the drive straight and long and in play sets up a shorter iron in. This allows for a higher percentage of greens to be hit.

What is your favorite golf destination?
Treetops in Gaylord, Michigan

What course is on your bucket list that you have not played yet?
St. Andrews

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

If you could change one aspect, rule or thing about golf, what would it be and why?
Nothing, I love the game and how it truly is a gentleman's game.

Dream foursome (living)?
Tiger Woods, Rory McIllroy, Brandt Snedeker, Fred Couples

Dream foursome (living or dead)?
Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, & Arnold Palmer

18 Rapid Fire, Off The Cuff Questions

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

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

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

4) Hit a power fade OR power draw?
Power Fade

5) Beverage cart OR halfway house?
Both

6) Bathroom OR bushes?
Bathroom

7) Hot dog OR wrap?
Wrap

8) Around the green, being in sand OR thick rough?
Bunkers, Love them

9) Walking OR riding?
Walking

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

13) Palmer OR Nicklaus?
Nicklaus

14) Beatles OR Elvis?
Elvis

15) Play for fun OR play for money?
Playing for MONEY

16) Bump and run OR flop shot?
Flop Shot

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.