The Snake River Sporting Club has announced that Charles “Matt” Fawkes has joined the club as head golf professional.
Fawkes joins Snake River Sporting Club from Turner Hill Golf & Racquet Club in Ipswich, MA. Prior to that he was head golf professional at the Plantation at Ponte Vedra in Florida. Fawkes, who began playing golf when he was 13 years old, turned pro prior to entering Michigan State University. He became a PGA member in 1998.
“The opportunity to head the golf program at Snake River Sporting Club, where members will enjoy the experience of playing golf with the pro on a daily basis, is very exciting,” Fawkes says. “Members will have the benefit of a truly unique golf experience, in a remarkable setting, on a fabulously designed course.”
Snake River Sporting Club features a new Tom Weiskopf-designed course that Weiskopf has described as his finest U.S.-design to date. It highlights the natural beauty of the property and incorporates large blue spruce, stands of firs and cottonwood trees, among other natural foliage, to create a course whose challenges and pleasures are inseparable from the landscape. A grand opening event is scheduled for this summer.
“The course’s design makes for enjoyable and challenging play,” Fawkes says. “The front nine rewards accuracy with tighter fairways, while the back nine consists of wide-open fairways. It is like playing on two different courses.”
While in Florida, Fawkes donated much of his time to working with junior golfers in and around the Jacksonville, Florida area. Fawkes was Junior Golf Chairman of the North Florida Chapter PGA for 4 years and was twice named North Florida Chapter PGA Junior Golf Leader. In 2000, Fawkes was named to the Board of Directors of the PGA Tour Junior Golf Foundation and in 2002 was elected its President.
