Cory Corbitt

Interview With Cary Corbitt, The Sea Pines Resort

A Light Hearted Golf Q & A Interview

By Brian Weis

Below is an interview with Cary Corbitt, Director of Sports & Operations, at The Sea Pines Resort. Cary joined The Sea Pines Resort in 1977 as a golf professional at the Ocean Course, Heron Point by Pete Dye and Harbour Town Golf Links. Since then, he has served in various capacities within the Golf and Sports Division. For the past 18 years, Cary has been Director of Sports and Retail for The Sea Pines Resort as well as in charge of special projects and recently resort operations.

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?
I started playing at age 12 and my mother introduced me to the game.

What is your current home course?
Sea Pines Resort - Harbour Town Golf Links and Heron Point by Pete Dye

To date, what is your proudest golf accomplishment? I
was name Golf Professional of the Year 1997 by the Carolinas PGA

What is your biggest golf pet peeve on or off the course?
Cell phones

What is your favorite golf destination?
Hilton Head Island for year round golf and Colorado in summer and early fall

What course is on your bucket list that you have not played yet?
The courses in Ireland

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

If you could change one aspect, rule or thing about golf, what would it be and why?
After play penalities

Dream foursome (living)?
Pete Dye, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Ben Crenshaw

Dream foursome (living or dead)?
Pete Dye, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer

18 Rapid Fire, Off The Cuff Questions

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

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

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

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

5) Beverage cart OR halfway house?
Halfway House

6) Bathroom OR bushes?
Bathroom

7) Hot dog OR wrap?
Hot Dog

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

9) Walking OR riding?
Riding

10) Do you carry traditional 3 iron OR hybrid?
3 iron and strong hybrid

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

12) Pants OR Shorts?
Shorts

13) Palmer OR Nicklaus?
Palmer

14) Beatles OR Elvis?
Beatles

15) Play for fun OR play for money?
Small wager

16) Bump and run OR flop shot?
Flop shot

17) Lay up OR gamble?
Gamble but most of the time I need to layup

18) 18 holes OR 36?
18 holes

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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.