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Meet the
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The Forest Course at Bramshaw
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ell us how you became a golf club manager… I’ve always been a golfer. I’ve had a golf club in my hands since I was about two. I was playing off scratch by the time I was 16 and played county golf. I really wanted to turn professional, and worked in a pro shop for a winter, but decided it wasn’t for me. I went back to college, went to university, got a degree in sports
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science, and ended up spending seven years as a lifeguard. At that point, I thought ‘what are you doing with your life?’ I had a look around and eventually picked up a golf administration job at Duxbury Golf Club, Hotel and Spa, in Ferndown, near Bournemouth. I spent a couple of years there and then I had an opportunity to apply for the general manager’s position at Bramshaw. I didn’t think I’d get it. I didn’t really think
I had enough experience on the management side of things but the owner obviously saw something in me and decided to give it a shot. I’ve now been here for three and a half years. What did you learn from lifeguarding you could bring into golf club management? People skills. When you’re a lifeguard you deal with all sorts of people – probably very similar
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