Staff Bios
  DYLAN HILLS, PGA JOHN WELCH LAURIE SWEENEY, CPA JEREMY PAYNE DARCIE CARRIER AMBER SHINN BOB BIRNSCHEIN
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TITLE PGA Head Golf Professioinal General Manager Controller Golf Course Superintendant Wedding and Events Manager Membership Director Chef
PHONE 530-878-3014 530-878-3010 530-878-3003 530-878-9099 530-878-3015 530-878-3004
EMAIL dhills@winchestercountryclub.com jwelch@winchestercountryclub.com lsweeney@winchestercountryclub.com jpayne@valleycrest.com dcarrier@winchestercountryclub.com ashinn@winchestercountryclub.com bbirnschein@winchestercountryclub.com
DETAILS Dylan was born and raised in Watertown, WI where he was an all-state golfer. He attended Ferris State University in Big Rapids, MI earning a Marketing degree with an emphasis on Professional Golf Management. In addition to the PGA education that he received at Ferris State University he has served at many fine Country Club’s in the country most recently at Blackhawk Country Club as the Sr. Head Golf Professional. In his free time he spends time with his wife and three children (Bailey, Marlee and Ben). Born and raised in Denver, John received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Universty of Colorado. John managed and owned restaurants in Colorado and has served as General Manager for the Aviation Club, Lakewood Country Club and Glenmoor Country Club in Cherry Hills, receiving his club management certification in 1995. John moved to Northern California to manage Winchester in 2007. Laurie Sweeney is a 30+ year resident of Meadow Vista. She is a Certified Public Accountant and has many years of accounting and consulting experience across many industries. She spent 10 years in public accounting with Grant Thornton, an international CPA firm. She left public accounting to join Access Health, a health care marketing organization in the process of going public, as Director of Finance. She also was COO, CEO and Chairman of the Board for AlpineAire Foods, a food manufacturing company. In 1991 Ms. Sweeney formed her own software sales and consulting business, Automated Business Systems, which predominantly offers services related to the installation and implementation of high-end accounting and information systems with Winchester Country Club one of her clients. In 2004 Ms. Sweeney was hired as Winchester Country Club's Controller. Jeremy was born in Sacramento, and raised locally in Pleasant Grove. He has lived in Northern California all his life, with the exception of one year living abroad in Sweden as a Rotary Exchange Student. He has his BS from Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, and has worked at a number of clubs throughout California including Poppy Hills, Meadow Club, Sharon Heights, and Sierra View. He began his career as a superintendent at Empire Ranch in Folsom before joining the ValleyCrest team and becoming Winchester's superintendent. When not on the course working or playing, you'll find Jeremy tending to his bees or spending time with his family; wife, Molly and son, Benjamin. Darcie started her career as a pastry chef in a California-French style restaurant during her senior year of high school. From there, she moved her way through just a few restaurants to end up at Winchester in October of 2005 and on a new career path as the head of banquet operations. Now with over 10 years of restaurant and country club experience, she calls Winchester Country Club her home away from home. Amber has been a local resident for 30 years and working in the customer service industry for 20 plus years. Amber was hired as the Club's receptionist in April 2006. Since then, Amber has been promoted to Member Service’s Coordinator, Accounting Assistant and most recently Membership Director where as a people loving person, she found the perfect fit as an excellent salesperson.

When Amber is not at Winchester you will most likely see her driving one of her two girls to one of their sporting events.