CJ Schmid is Canyon Gate Country Club's Player Development Professional & Director of Instruction, and has used this position to help grow the game of golf in the greater Las Vegas valley since 2022.

A lifelong golfer born and raised in a small town just north of Los Angeles, CJ has spent his golf career dedicating time to growing the game of golf through multiple avenues in both traditional and creative manners. After playing junior golf tournaments and in high school for Quartz Hill High School, played amateur golf events before taking the leap into working in the golf industry in 2016. Since then, he has helped deliver thousands of lessons through a mix of "old-school" lessons and a modern approach of group playing lessons, PGA Junior League, and utilizing launch monitor and biomechanics technologies.

While teaching at Canyon Gate, part of CJ's tenure with Canyon Gate has included coaching PGA Junior League All-Star teams to Regional tournaments three years straight, coaching the 2023 PGA Junior League Southwest Sectional Championship team, and coaching at Faith Lutheran High School as their Girl's Golf coach the last three seasons. As a student at UNLV, he was actively involved in the school's Professional Golf Management program as a four-time student association member and was the first student to be elected President twice. CJ was also a biomechanics research assistant for the program and was nominated for a UNLV outstanding Student Leader Award in 2020.

When he is not actively growing the game of golf, CJ enjoys visiting his mother and three younger brothers back in Southern California, visiting new places (even if the beaches of Los Angeles will always be his favorite), and being upset over how his favorite sports teams are playing that week.