Rick Witt – Head Golf Professional

Rick Witt is a talented Class A PGA professional with nearly 15 years of experience as a Head Golf Professional. He distinguished himself as Wisconsin’s top golfer after winning the 2006 Wisconsin PGA Match Play Championship. In 2001, Rick was voted “Golf Professional of the Year” in the Eastern Region of American Golf Country Clubs. He also has served on the Titlist National Advisory Staff since 2000. Rick joined Blackhawk in 2004 and resides in Madison, with his wife, Danielle.

Chad Grimm – Golf Course Superintendent

Chad Grimm was introduced to Blackhawk Country Club as a student intern in 1996.  Upon graduation, he was hired as a golf course staff member and promoted to the Assistant Golf Course Superintendant position in 1999.  Chad  and his wife, Sarah, live in Waunakee with their two children, Sydney and Mary

Jake Schneider--Assistant Golf Course Superintendent

Jake Schneider began working at Blackhawk Country Club after his junior year
as an undergraduate pursuing a degree in Soil Science at the University of
Wisconsin Madison.  He continued to work seasonally on the course while
pursuing his masters degree in Horticulture, also at UW-Madison.  As a
graduate student, Jake was the first receipient of the Kurth Distinguished
Graduate Fellowship.  His masters thesis that explored the use of rain gardens
vegetated with either turfgrass or native plants showed the environmentally
positive impacts of turfgrass.  As the second assistant superintendent, he began working full-time in 2008 and was promoted to Assistant Superintendent
on January 1, 2009.