Interview With Kenny Cashwell PGA General Manager Sequoyah National Golf Club

Below is an interview with Kenny Cashwell, the PGA General Manager at Sequoyah National 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?
I began playing golf at the age of 3 when my grandparents introduced me to the game. I fell in love with the game as a teenager and become obsessed with mastery. Of course golf cannot be mastered and like many I became frustrated and stopped playing for about 5 years. My uncle convinced me to go out with him on weekend and I was hooked almost immediately. I give up my school teaching and coaching career to peruse membership in the PGA of America. I accomplished that goal and became a Class A member of the PGA of America in 3 years. I obtained Certified PGA status ten years later in 2005 when I became Certified in both General Management and Golf Operations. I am one of the fortunate PGA Members to also be married to a PGA Professional; my wife Becky became a PGA Life Member a couple of years ago.

What is your current home course?
My current course is Sequoyah National in Cherokee NC. It is always beautiful and challenging.

To date, what is your proudest golf accomplishment?
One of the proudest accomplishments for me is to see many of my former junior golf students grow up to become very, very successful adults. They have no idea how proud I am for them.

What is your biggest golf pet peeve on or off the course?
Rudeness in any form is very frustrating. It is bothersome when folks don't consider others before acting.

What is your favorite club in your bag and why?
The 7 iron, because it is the one I train with the most. I was taught to use it in practice, as it is long enough to demand proper technique and short enough to be forgiving

What is your favorite golf destination?
The Charleston, SC area. I have many friends there and every course in the region is beautiful.

What course is on your bucket list that you have not played yet?
I would like to play the new Finley Golf Club in Chapel Hill. It is the home course of my alma mater the University of North Carolina and I have not played in since the redesign.

If you woke up tomorrow and could play one course you played before, where would you play?
Olde Mill in Laurel Fork Virginia. It is scenic and challenging and I enjoyed some success there as a high school golfer at Mount Airy High School in NC.

If you could change one aspect, rule or thing about golf, what would it be and why?
I can't think of any rule that I would change. I do think that there is room for two sets of rules, one for competitions and another for every day casual golf which the majority of golfers play.

Dream foursome (living)?
Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson and Clint Eastwood.

Dream foursome (living or dead)?
My father Ray Greene(deceased); Tom Watson, and Jack Nicklaus.

18 Rapid Fire, Off The Cuff Questions