Staff
Chad Stocker, PGA
Head Golf Professional
Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Chad was a member of the golf team at St. Xavier from 1995-1997. After he graduated from the University of Kentucky in 2001 where he majored in Marketing, Chad started his career as an Assistant Golf Professional at Audubon Country Club from 2002-2010. He gained PGA Membership status in 2008. Chad competed in the Assistant Professional National Championship twice and the PGA Professional National Championship twice. Chad was the Head Golf Professional at South Park Country Club from 2010-2018. Chad joined the Cardinal family at UofL Golf Club as the Head Golf Professional in the Summer of 2018.
Chad and his wife Kathleen have three children Mason, Ava, and Reece. As a lifelong Cardinal fan, Chad enjoys watching the Cardinals play with his family and friends.
Brad Orick
Assistant Golf Professional
Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. Brad attended St Xavier High School from 2009 - 2013 and played football all four years. Brad began his career working at Woodhaven Country Club and most recently was the Assistant Golf Professional at Oxmoor Country Club. Brad is in the process of enrolling in the PGA Associates Program. Brad joined the Cardinal Family as an Assistant Golf Professional in the Summer of 2022.
Brad enjoys watching golf, football, basketball, and spending time with his family and fishing with friends.
Zach Frasher
Assistant Golf Professional
Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Zach has played golf since he was four years old and was a member of the golf team at DeSales High School from 2005-2008. He began working in golf in high school at South Park Country Club from 2006-2016 and went on to be the Assistant Golf Professional at Standard Club from 2016-2022. Zach joined the Cardinal family at UofL Golf Club in the Fall of 2022 as the Assistant Golf Professional.
Zach has been a lifelong fan of the Cardinals and enjoys watching them play with friends and family. Zach's other hobbies outside of golf include going to live sporting events and concerts and enjoying time with his friends and family.
Mike Finney
Director of Instruction
Mike has dedicated his professional life to understanding and teaching the golf swing. He turned professional in 1990 after a successful collegiate golf career at LSU from 1985-1990. Mike was in the lineup for teams which won the SEC Championship in 1987 and ranked #1 in the USA in 1989. His professional career from 1990-2015 included stops at great golf facilities in Louisiana and Kentucky. Mike was the Head Golf Professional at Owl Creek Country Club from 1999-2015 and this 1717-yeartay was the launching pad for becoming a fufull-timenstructor at the University of Louisville Golf Club in early 2016.
Mike has dedicated his career to understanding the mechanics of the golf swing to a level that would place him among the world’s most knowledgeable instructors and coaches. His promotion of scientific researchers who have become consensus experts in the field of golf swing mechanics investigation has fundamentally changed how golf instructors around the world digest and interpret information. Acknowledgment of the scientific pursuit of better understanding and better coaching resulted in Mike being awarded two separate Kentucky PGA Awards.
Mike runs programs for adults and juniors throughout the year at ULGC and is especially proud of his Mike Finney Junior Golf Academy which has exposed hundreds of junior golfers to high level instruction in their quest to play high school and college golf. Starting from scratch in 2016, Mike has built a program that is consistently producing Division 1 talent as well as helping middle school golfers become quality high school players.
Mike is also one of 12 instructors worldwide who is a TrackMan Ambassador because of his understanding and advocacy on behalf of TrackMan’s benefits in day-to-day instruction. Teachers from around the world seek out Mike’s detailed knowledge of how TrackMan works and what the data parameters mean in real world, golf swing situations.
Mike exclusively fits Ping golf equipment. Ping is the clear leader in golf club engineering and design and they consistently bring equipment to market that is demonstrably better. Properly fitted golf clubs are essential for all golfers who truly want to reach their scoring potential. 
Mike Finney
Director of Instruction
502-314-4653
mfinney6@icloud.com