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What makes Whitbread love golf is “the challenge”, he says. “You have nobody else to blame except you if it doesn’t go well” FROM GOLF PRO TO BROKER

Before joining the world of broking, Luke Whitbread enjoyed a di erent kind of challenge: competing as a professional golfer

LUKE WHITBREAD, owner-partner at Mortgage Choice Erina, has been a broker for just over three years. Prior to that, he played golf professionally for six years, which he said was “a good way to see some beautiful parts of the world”.

The Central Coast local and award-winning broker started playing golf when he was just 14 years old. After he fi nished high school in 2009, he undertook a traineeship to learn about coaching and how to run a business. He decided to play golf professionally after that, starting at Wyong Golf Club, where he completed a PGA of Australia traineeship and won the NSW/ACT PGA Rookie Player of the Year award in 2014.

Whitbread ventured into the broking world when he joined Mortgage Choice in 2017 as a loan processor, before becoming a broker in 2019. Today, he continues to play golf on weekends. He says playing the sport makes him feel relaxed, is a chance to hang out with friends, and gives him that “good” feeling of being in competition again.

14 yrs

Age at which Whitbread started playing golf

6

Number of years he was a professional golfer

2014

Year he won the NSW/ACT PGA Rookie of the Year award