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Jesse Cantley
PGA Assistant Golf Professional
Jesse Cantley is entering his 3rd year as 1st Assistant at Edgewood Country Club and 6th year total at the club. Jesse went to college at Penn State where he majored in Professional Golf Management. 2023 was a year of accomplishments for Jesse. He participated in the 2023 National PGA Assistants Championship, and most importantly he married his wife Mollie. When he is not at the club, he enjoys playing guitar, watching sports, and spending time with his family and dog Hunnie.
Elmer Bland Jr.
PGA Assistant Golf Professional
Elmer Bland Jr. is starting his third year at Edgewood. He served as the Head Golf Professional at Meadow Lane Golf Course in Indiana, PA for 17 seasons. He completed his PGM Program and was elected to PGA Membership in November 2009. He served as the Head Girls’ Golf Coach for Indiana High School for 10 years. Elmer played collegiate golf for both Slippery Rock University and Millersville University. He earned his degree in Business Administration – Marketing with a minor in Computer Science from Millersville and worked in the industrial world for 15 years before embarking on his 2nd and final career in the golf industry. Elmer brings with him a life-long passion for the game of golf, desire to play and teach the game to the members of Edgewood Country Club.
Phillip Lochart
PGA Assistant Golf Professional
Phillip is entering his second year as Assistant Golf Professional at Edgewood Country Club. Phillip went to college at Eastern Kentucky University majoring in Business Administration and Marketing with a concentration in Professional Golf Management. During his time there he completed internships at Sharon Woods Golf Course in Cincinnati, OH and The Club at Cordillera in Edwards, CO, and Old Edwards Club & The Saddle at Glen Cove in Highlands, NC. Following his internship at Old Edwards Club & The Saddle at Glen Cove he spent 3 years as the Assistant Golf professional there. Phillip was elected to PGA membership in March 2021. He has a strong passion for growing, teaching, and playing the game of golf. When Phillip is not at Edgewood you will find him golfing, going on scenic hikes, skiing, and spending time with his wonderful girlfriend Emily and their numerous animals.
Matt Sullivan
Outside Operations
Matt is a veteran of the golf business, having been affiliated with the Pittsburgh Field Club since 1992, when he started out as a caddie and wound up as the caddie master/golf service manager. A local guy, Matt is a 1989 graduate of Steel Valley School in Munhall. He then went on to graduate from Carnegie Mellon University in 1993 with a B.A. in Professional Writing. He also played on the men's golf team there, with the opportunity to travel the right side of the country a little, playing competitive golf at many beautiful locations in all kinds of conditions, ranging from bone-chilling snow and wind in Boston to skin-frying sunshine and heat in Atlanta.
At the beginning of the millennium, Matt interrupted his time at the Field Club for a couple years by writing for a local newspaper, where he covered every kind of story imaginable, good and bad. In short, he's seen it all and is not easily shocked!
Matt is a deacon at First Reformed Presbyterian Church, where his wife Jill, to whom he's been married since 2006, is an administrative assistant. His two sons Markus and Joel attend Trinity Christian School, and Matt is also the head coach of the middle school boys' basketball team there.
Steve Flash
Teaching Professional
Steve is in his 10th year here at ECC. Steve was elected into PGA membership in March of 2000 in the South Florida Section. Steve is a local boy, growing up in Point Breeze and graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School and a graduate from Mississippi State University with a Business Administration and Professional Golf Management degree.
Steve has worked as an assistant golf professional at Whistling Straits resort in Kohler, Wisconsin, host of the 2015 PGA Championship and host of the 2020 Ryder Cup matches and also at the Ocean Reed Club in Key Largo Florida. During his tenure at the Ocean Reef Club, teaching became Steve’s passion! During this time, he had the professional privilege of shadowing and learning from world renowned golf instructor to the PGA Tour professionals, Jimmy Ballard.
Some of Mr. Ballard Students are:
Curtis Strange- 2 time US Open Champion
Sandy Lyle- Masters & Open Champion
Seve Balllesteros- Masters & Open Champion
Paul Azinger- PGA Champion
Currently- Rocco Mediate
Steve is always happy to help any golfer of any ability to help improve and enjoy the game of golf. Feel free to reach out to Steve.
