Three’s company: Scott Gutschewski, two sons grouped together at Pinnacle Bank Championship

Perhaps the person most excited about the Gutschewski trio this week at the Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Woodhouse is Scott Gutschewski’s wife, Amy.

Amy was the first person to send a screen capture of the Korn Ferry Tour tee-time notification that showed Scott would be playing alongside his two sons, Luke and Trevor, for the first two rounds at The Club at Indian Creek. A text that will live forever.

“Mom is pretty excited,” said Luke Gutschewski, with a smile.

Through recorded history, this is the second time that a father and multiple sons will play together in a PGA TOUR-sanctioned event, with Jack Nicklaus and three of his sons playing the Korn Ferry Tour’s BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by TD SYNNEX together in 2003.

Scott, 47, was far enough down the alternate list for this week’s Wyndham Championship that he committed to his first Korn Ferry Tour event of the season in his home state of Nebraska.

Luke and Trevor Gutschewski, meanwhile, both won qualifying events in Nebraska to earn sponsor exemptions for the tournament. Trevor comes into the week with perhaps the most Gutschewski momentum, having won this summer’s U.S. Junior Amateur at Oakland Hills.

“It was a big, long week,” Trevor said of his championship win in Michigan. “Everyone out there is good. Everyone out here is really good. This week is all about getting my mindset right, getting my confidence right. I’m not big on goals – I’m just going out there to have fun and play good golf.”

Luke, a rising junior at Iowa State who won the Nebraska Junior Amateur in 2020, was the first brother to earn his way into the field and said his excitement level changed multiple times – with each passing piece of news.

“When I got in, I was like, ‘This will be fun,’ but I was the only one there. And then Trevor got in and I was like, ‘That’ll be fun to play with my brother.’ And then (Scott) got in and I knew it would be really fun. Now that we’re playing together, that changed the excitement again,” Luke said. “It’ll be awesome.”

Scott knows his time in professional golf is getting limited. A couple of years ago he said he started thinking about the future and how long it would be until, potentially, his sons were able to make it too. With a laugh, he said he’s ready “to be Mike Thomas” (two-time major champion Justin Thomas’ father, who doubles as swing coach). He’s ready to walk around, tell his sons how good they are and help out on occasion. He’d be OK with that, he said.

“I thought it was a possibility (for he and his sons to play together at a pro event), but for it to happen this soon is definitely a little shocking. I thought there was a chance Luke and I could cross paths depending on how long I could still walk,” Scott said with a laugh. “Trevor was a huge surprise. Not based on ability, but timing. You don’t expect this.”

Scott describes Luke as a short hitter – mostly because he tore his labrum as a senior in high school, ironically, coaching Trevor’s basketball team – but who is tremendous with a hybrid and who possesses a great short game. Trevor, Scott said, doesn’t have any kind of distance problem. Even though he’s just 17, he is a “prototypical” young player who hits it further than both older brother and dad.

Of note, Scott and Amy also have a daughter, Isabelle, who attends the University of Nebraska and is part of the PGA Golf Management program, and another son, Isaiah, who is 8 – who also has started to play.

Scott said the basic philosophy that he tried to pass along to his kids about golf was to just have fun. He knew golf was going to be a big part of his kids’ lives one way or another, but the biggest thing was for them to have fun with it. Twenty-plus years ago, he never would have expected his career would still be going at this point. But it is, and now he gets to do something incredibly special.

It’s a family affair this week in Omaha for the Gutschewski group. It will most certainly be fun. But it’ll also be emotional.

“There are different emotions for all of us,” Scott said, with the slightest of break in his voice. “Different for me than them. It’s their first event. It’s pretty special.”

The trio tees off at 9:57 a.m. local time off the 10th tee at The Club at Indian Creek.