19th Hole: Brendon Reaksecker

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Brendon Reaksecker (Photo: Christian Segura)

Brendon Reaksecker (Photo: Christian Segura)

Brendon Reaksecker

Superintendent, Bonita (Calif.) GC

What can I get you? An ice-cold, West Coast Style IPA … the juicier, the better! Sculpin by Ballast Point is one of my favorites.

How was San Diego Bay today? It was beautiful. I love to be on the water with my buddies. Waterskiing, wakeboarding or just cruising, it doesn’t matter.

Tell me about Bonita. BGC is a super fun public daily-fee, 18-hole course located 15 minutes from downtown San Diego. Push-up Poa annua greens, Rain Bird block irrigation system and super salty well water. What’s not to love?

Do you have a family? My wife and I met at UC Santa Barbara in 1992. We married in 2000 and have done our best raising Jackson, a freshman at Oregon State University, and his 6-foot, 1-inch “little” brother, Gavin, a junior in high school.

Does it feel like 14 years that you’ve been taking care of Bonita? I was hired to care for BGC in 2007. Looking back, the time has flown by. Gavin was 2 when I started!

What’s your favorite tool in the shop? I have a soil sampler that is made from a sink drain tailpipe. It has saved my job on multiple occasions.

What car that you parted ways with do you miss the most? I had a 1994 Ford “O.J.” Bronco that I miss every day. We had some crazy adventures in the desert together.

What movie always stops you dead in your tracks when you’re flipping through the channels? I’m terrible with movies. I’ve hit my head too many times to remember movie lines, and I fall asleep halfway into them. It drives my wife crazy.

What has been your most memorable golf moment? My first and only hole-in-one on No. 11 with arborist Javier Vargas, Simplot rep Tim Faucett and retired superintendent Dave Jones, Coronado GC. Thursday golf is legendary! We’ve been teeing off every Thursday afternoon for 14 years with no end in sight.

How do you show the crew appreciation for a job well done? I reward the crew by telling them “good job” when it is deserving of individual recognition. As a team, we have a great time together, especially when there is carne asada and beer involved. We have a potluck-style meal at our own private hideaway spot out on the course.

As interviewed by Seth Jones, Oct. 19, 2020.

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About the Author: Seth Jones

Seth Jones, a 25-year veteran of the golf industry media, is Editor-in-Chief of Golfdom magazine and Athletic Turf. A graduate of the University of Kansas School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Jones began working for Golf Course Management in 1999 as an intern. In his professional career he has won numerous awards, including a Turf and Ornamental Communicators Association (TOCA) first place general feature writing award for his profile of World Golf Hall of Famer Greg Norman and a TOCA first place photography award for his work covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In his career, Jones has accumulated an impressive list of interviews, including such names as George H.W. Bush, Samuel L. Jackson, Lance Armstrong and Charles Barkley. Jones has also done in-depth interviews with such golfing luminaries as Norman, Gary Player, Nick Price and Lorena Ochoa, to name only a few. Jones is a member of both the Golf Writers Association of America and the Turf and Ornamental Communicators Association. Jones can be reached at sjones@northcoastmedia.net.


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