Glenn Preciado

Interview With Glenn Preciado Director of Golf Operations OHL El Camaleon Mayakoba

A Light Hearted Golf Q & A Interview

By Brian Weis

Below is an interview with Glenn Preciado, the Director of Golf Operations at OHL El Camaleon Mayakoba. 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?
Western State Conference Player of the Year 1985 Pga of America member in 1995 Courses of Employment:
Sandpiper Golf Course Santa Barbara Calif Birnamwood Golf Club Montecito Calif Sherwood Country Club Westlake Calif Iberostar Playa Paraíso Golf Club Riviera Maya Mexico El Camaleón Mayakoba Playa del Carmen Mexico

Notables tournaments operated: LPGA Santa Barbara Open 1995; PGA Tour school finals 1997, Tiger Woods World Challenge 1998,99 ; Iberostar Rivera Maya Open Canadian tour 2008,9,10; Big Break Mexico 2013 ; Ohl Classic 2013

When did you start golfing and who introduced you to the game?
Started Playing at age of 12 with my neighbor Troy. I remember how small the persimon Woods were and how short the ball went.

What is your current home course?
My current home course is El Camaleón Mayakoba.

To date, what is your proudest golf accomplishment?
My 3 course records. 63; 63; 29

What is your biggest golf pet peeve on or off the course?
Slow Play

What is your favorite club in your bag and why?
My Driver, Because you can hit it as far as you want.

What is your favorite golf destination?
Pebble beach or Carmel Valley Calif

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

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

If you could change one aspect, rule or thing about golf, what would it be and why?
Move the ball out of a divot in the fairway. It should be GUR

Dream foursome (living)?
Arnold Palmer - Greg Norman - Lee Trevino- Myself

Dream foursome (living or dead)?
Bobby Jones-Payne Stewart- Seve Ballesteros -Myself

18 Rapid Fire, Off The Cuff Questions

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

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

6) Bathroom OR bushes?
Bushes

7) Hot dog OR wrap?
Wrap

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

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?
Palmer

14) Beatles OR Elvis?
Elvis

15) Play for fun OR play for money?
Money

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.