Talking Golf With The Golf Guy-Season 5 Episode 12 With Ernie Schneiter Jr.
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Talking Golf With The Golf Guy-Season 5 Episode 12 With Ernie Schneiter Jr.

It has been said that Golf Professionals wear many hats, but few men in the history of the PGA have a closet stacked with as much headgear as Utah Golf Hall of Fame member, Ernie Schneiter Jr.

As a player, Ernie excelled from the first time he picked up a golf club, winning the Utah Junior Open as a thirteen year-old.

Ernie Schneiter Jr
(Tom Wharton Photo).

And as a Professional he won the Utah Open, the Idaho Open, the Rocky Mountain Section Championship twice while also competing in the PGA National Championship.

After jobs at Oquirrh Hills in Tooele, the Ogden Golf and Country Club, Blue Lakes Country Club in Idaho, and Ben Lomond, Ernie assumed ownership of the 9-hole Riverside Golf Course in Ogden, Utah and built it into an 18-hole course by designed the back nine and renaming it Schneiter’s Riverside.

Enlightened by his architectural acumen, Ernie purchased 150 acres in Syracuse, Utah and designed another 18-hole golf course which he then named, Schneiter’s Bluff.

Ernie Schneiter Jr.

A quiet, personable, and unassuming man, Ernie Schneiter does not gloat or boast of his many awards and achievements.

That is left to those of us who stand in awe of one of the living legends of Utah Golf History.

Please listen here to some of the exploits of his long, illustrious career as a PGA Professional.

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Jeff Waters, MBA, PGA Master Professional, and President /CEO of Rocky Mountain Golf Enterprises, a licensed and registered Utah business utilizing golf as the marketing tool, has over fifty years of experience in the commerce of golf as a player, teacher, administrator, and small business owner. A well-known broadcast journalist, correspondent, and commentator, Jeff has traveled widely for the Rocky Mountain Golf Network, attending, announcing, reporting on, and broadcasting major sporting events in arenas, ballparks, stadiums, and golf courses across the country. As a member of the Golf Writers Association of America, Jeff has also published extensively throughout the regional print market for Utah Golf News, Rocky Mountain Golfer, Golf Today, Utah Fairways, Jackson Hole Golf News, and Utah Golf Magazine, as well as other platforms, including articles, blog posts, podcasts, internet forums, and on his website at wwwjeffgolfguy.com.

2 thoughts on “Talking Golf With The Golf Guy-Season 5 Episode 12 With Ernie Schneiter Jr.”

  1. Jon Schneiter

    Jeff,

    Great interview. Thank you so much for all you do for Utah golf.

    This will be priceless for our family for generations to come.

    Jon

  2. Jeff Waters Author

    Thank you Jon.
    And, I also recorded over an hour of sound and video of your father that I will include in my documentary production of “The History of Golf in Utah”
    I will also post the video, with sound, on YouTube for posterity and history to see and hear which, I hope, will last forever.
    Be safe,
    Jeff Waters

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