Wintergreen selects director of golf

Wintergreen, Va. – Sean Taylor, an award-winning golf instructor, has been named director of golf at Wintergreen Resort Golf Club.

“This position is very exciting for me,” says Taylor, 37, who joins Wintergreen after spending the past two years as director of golf at Grand Cypress Resort in Orlando, Fla. “Everyone here at Wintergreen is headed in the same direction. We have an unbelievable product – a true mountain golf experience at its best.”

Taylor, a native of Hamilton, N.J., has been selected among “America’s Top Golf Instructors” in the Guide to America’s Top Golf Instructors and is the co-creator of the Golf Pro Teaching Mat. A member of the PGA of America since 1994, Taylor was a four-year letterman at Elon University in Elon, N.C., graduating with a degree in education, and spent some time on the Florida mini-tour circuit.

On staff at the Duke University Golf Club from 1993 to 2004 – the final five years as head golf professional – Taylor designed the university’s golf curriculum. He has taught golfers from the junior ranks up through college, and both the PGA and LPGA Tours. One of his more notable students is Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

Under Taylor’s direction, Grand Cypress earned honors from Conde Nast Traveler magazine as the No. 1 Golf Resort in Florida, and Golf World Business twice included his retail operation in its rankings of Top 100 Best Golf Shops. 

Taylor and his wife, Kris, have been married 10 years and have 3-year-old twins – son Joseph and daughter Ella.

Wintergreen is located in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, offering year-round golf at Stoney Creek, a 27-hole Rees Jones layout in the valley, and seasonal play at the highest course in Virginia, the Ellis Maples-designed Devil’s Knob, a mountaintop layout at 3,850 feet elevation that is known for cool summer temperatures and outstanding tee-to-green conditions.

For more information, visit www.wintergreenresort.com or call 434-325-8250.