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Rothley Park
H
ow did you get into golf club management? I’d given it some thought over previous years but had never pursued it. I’d worked for the European Tour since 2005 and enjoyed it and made my way up to being one of the scoring managers. I probably attended 20 events a year – 14 on the main tour, three or four on the Seniors’
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Tour and then the balance on the Challenge Tour. I travelled all over the place, from Shanghai to the HSBC, Dubai World Cup, Ryder Cup, Solheim Cup and I really enjoyed my time with the Tour. Then, like a lot of people, we got to that point 12 months ago when everybody became furloughed. Obviously, the tour had quite a large restructuring and quite a decent number of
us, unfortunately, were made redundant. I really wanted to stay in golf so I made some initial enquiries. I’m not 25, I was 53 at the time and Gavin Robinson [GCMA professional development manager] was incredibly helpful. I enrolled onto the Principles course, really enjoyed that and built up a bit of knowledge and some more contacts. Then I proceeded to approach
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