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Walking the Fairways segment of The Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast is proudly brought to you by Dint Golf Solutions www.dint.com.au and Colin Campbell Chemicals www.campbellchemicals.com.au There's lots going on around Australia and right here is where you will get all the info you need to stay up to date.
In this episode I give you an update as to the extent of the recent floods that hit the NSW Mid North Coast with some details on just how much rain had fallen. There's also some course updates from NSW, Victoria, South Australia, and the Northern Territory.
I have a new guest, Superintendent Ben Stacey from Tasmania Golf Club, jumping on to give us an update just what has been happening on another fantastic Hobart golf course, and Nigel Taylor joins me for an update into his Dirty Dozen year long quest all in an effort to raise awareness for mental health in the sports turf/greenkeeping industry.
If any of the discussions in this podcast raised concerns with your mental health you can contact:
Lifeline (Australia): 13 11 14 or visit www.lifeline.org.au
Beyond Blue (Australia): 1300 224 636 or visit www.beyondblue.org.au
MensLine Australia: 1300 789 978 or visit mensline.org.au
You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!
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People and places mentioned in this podcast:
Dint Golf Solutions - Instagram & Facebook
Colin Campbell Chemicals: Behind the Turf Podcast - Spotify
Colin Campbell Chemicals: Behind the Turf Podcast - Apple
NSW STA Apprentice Day ASTMA Conference 2025
ASTMA Turf Trade Show Registration
Corowa Golf Club
Carpentaria Golf Club
Twin Creeks Golf & Country Club
Royal Hobart Golf Club
Bunbury Golf Club
The Dirty Dozen - Instagram
The Dirty Dozen - Facebook
Tasmania Golf Club
Nambucca Heads Island Golf Club
Pacific Dunes Golf Club
Newcastle Golf Club
Club Taree
Macksville Country Club
Kew Country Club
Forster Tuncurry Golf Club - Tuncurry Course
Kooindah Waters Golf Club
Massey Park Golf Club
Glenelg Golf Club
Wilunga Golf Course
Heidelberg Golf Club
Jabiru Golf Club
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This episode was recorded out on course at Elanora Country Club in Sydney with Harley Kruse from Kruse Golf.
Harley takes some time with me whilst out on course at Elanora to chat about the architecture work that he is doing in conjunction with Mike Clayton from Clayton Devries Pont (CDP).
Join us for an interesting insight into their shared vision ahead for Elanora, along with the detail of some specific areas on course and just what goes into their thinking.
People and places mentioned in this podcast:
Kruse Golf - Facebook
CDP
Elanora Country Club
Elanora Country Club 4th Hole
Elanora Country Club 9th Hole
Elanora Country Club 10th Hole
Elanora Country Club 18th Hole
Elanora Country Club - Google Earth
Royal Perth Golf Club
Woodlands Golf Club
Yarra Yarra Golf Club
Yering Meadows Golf Club
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Keeper Of The Greens segment of The Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast is brought to you by John Deere Golf. When you work where others play, you need a partner you can trust to keep your course in perfect condition. Find your nearest John Deere dealer at deere.com.au
Nathan Turner grew up in a regional part of Victoria. He grew up helping out at the local golf course at Mortlake and soon realised that greenkeeping would be his choice for work.
Nathan took an apprenticeship role at Horsham Golf Club where he would see his apprenticeship out, but it wasn't long before the big lights began calling from the USA in the form of the Ohio State Program.
Nathan worked at numerous courses in the USA gaining an amazing amount of experience before returning to Australia to find his feet back on home soil. A short stint at NSW Golf Club in Sydney soon made way for a return to his home state of Victoria where it wasn't long before he landed his first Superintendents role. A few years of patience would soon see Nathan land the role where he is today, Superintendent of Latrobe Golf Club, a course with a bright future and one that Nathan is very keen to put his stamp on and take to great heights.
Join us for a fantastic journey that ducks and weaves to places you don't see coming as we learn about Nathan's greenkeeping career and also about Latrobe Golf Club and it's bright future.
You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!
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People and places mentioned in this podcast:
Latrobe Golf Club
Mortlake Golf Club
Warrnambool Golf Club
Port Fairy Golf Links
Horsham Golf Club
Pelican Waters Golf Club
Hamilton Island Golf Club
The National Golf Club - The Old Course
Ohio State Program - ASTMA Website
Kirtland Country Club
Muirfield Village Golf Club
Oak Hill Country Club
The Club at Mediterra
Tiburon Golf Club
Congressional Country Club
Portsea Golf Club
NSW Golf Club
Sanctuary Lakes Golf Club
Geelong Golf Club
Growling Frog Golf Club
Greg Norman Golf Course Design
OCM Golf Course Design
EP. 75 Keeper of the Greens - Tim Warren (Glenelg Golf Club)
EP.63 Keeper of the Greens - Brad Hole (Hamilton Island Golf Club)
Triple Double - NBA Basketball Card
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Walking the Fairways segment of The Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast is proudly brought to you by Colin Campbell Chemicals www.campbellchemicals.com.au and Dint Golf Solutions www.dint.com.au
This episode begins with the news from Golf Australia about the men's Australian Open this year to be hosted by Royal Melbourne Golf Club along with the announcement of Rory McIlroy coming to compete.
Then it's time to move into more regular news from golf courses across Australia beginning at Kangaroo Island in South Australia before moving to Tasmania and news coming from 7 Mile Beach and the Arm End Golf Course.
We have some interesting news coming from Sydney with Chatswood Golf Club in the midst of changing their course from 18 holes down to a revamped 12 hole course, and I am joined by Superintendent John Mann from Metropolitan Golf Club in Melbourne, Victoria, who gives us an update since the completion of some significant works upgrading their golf course.
You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!
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Colin Campbell Chemicals - Facebook
Dint Golf Solutions - Instagram
People and places mentioned in this podcast:
The Cliffs - Kangaroo Island
Ocean Dunes Golf Course - King Island
7 Mile Beach Golf
Arm End Golf Course
Crafter + Mogford Golf Strategies
OCM Design
Hamilton Island Golf Club
Nambucca Heads Island Golf Club
Chatswood Golf Club
Latrobe Golf Club
Royal Melbourne Golf Club
Metropolitan Golf Club
Queenscliff Golf Club
Federal Golf Club
Whaleback Golf Course
Royal Fremantle Golf Club
Wembley Golf Club
EP.78 Keeper of the Greens - John Mann (Metropolitan Golf Club)
EP.95 Keeper of the Greens - Richard Forsyth (The Royal Melbourne Golf Club)
EP.118 The Design Brief - Rob Collins (King Collins Dormer Golf Course Design)
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James Newell is Superintendent of Magenta Shores Golf & Country Club on the NSW Central Coast just north of Sydney. I took some time to catch up with James and record this podcast with him in his office at Magenta.
James has an amazing story that harks back to his homeland in New Zealand. With a farm background and creating and playing on his own rudimentary golf course with his brother, working outside for a living wasn't a far flung idea and James was able to get his first taste of sports turf maintenance through working for a local council.
Stepping through the years of working as an apprentice greenkeeper and playing golf regularly, James soon took the opportunity to for a short stint of work on course at the well known Paraparaumu Beach Golf Club. Over the next few years James worked at a couple of courses including the outstanding Cape Kidnappers before heading back to a great opportunity at Paraparaumu Beach GC.
James' next career move saw him head across the ditch to the great Melbourne Sandbelt region. Taking in all that he continued to learn and be involved with in his career, it wasn't long before James landed his first career superintendents role at Magenta Shores in NSW.
James and I also discuss just what it takes to not only look after and prepare Magenta Shores but also, to a further point, the detail that is required to understand and maintain any golf course. Why do we do what we do and how to get the best out of a golf course, all whilst understanding what and who you are doing it for. Golf greenkeeping isn't just about maintaining turf, it's about maintaining turf in a particular local environment for the game of golf.
This is one epic convo! I didn't know what to clip out to make it shorter so I just left it all if for you to listen, so strap yourselves in for James and Steve's epic adventure!
You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!
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People and places mentioned in this podcast:
Magenta Shores Golf & Country Club
Paraparaumu Beach Golf Club
Cape Kidnappers
Woodlands Golf Club
Yarra Yarra Golf Club
Mount Lawley Golf Club
Crafter + Mogford Golf Strategies
OCM Golf
Renaissance Golf Design
Renaissance Golf Design - Tom Doak
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The Design Brief is back and this time I'm chatting with another member of The Society of Australian Golf Course Architects, Ryan Van Der Veen.
Ryan joins me to chat about his career, beginning with his time in golf course construction from a young age back in the USA where he was born. After getting his start using heavy machinery on weekends and school holidays, it was during his time studying at Purdue University where Ryan was given an opportunity to work with the late great Pete Dye with the reconstruction of their golf courses.
From this early association with Pete Dye, Ryan was offered an opportunity to work at a golf course Pete Dye was building that in time would become the revered Whistling Straits Golf Course!
Along with working with Pete Dye, Ryan spent a number years working as part of Greg Norman Golf Course Design team outside the USA including constructing the spectacular new Doonbeg in Ireland.
It would soon turn that Ryan was asked to work in Australia with the Norman design team at a new golf course being constructed outside Adelaide in South Australia, when things soon changed thanks to the GFC!
Ryan worked on a few other projects leading the Norman design and build team at some of our well known golf courses including Grange in Adelaide and Cathedral Lodge in Victoria, before life would soon see Ryan stay here in Australia and start his own golf course design business - Van Der Veen Designs.
Join us for a great yarn hearing some wonderful stories from Ryan of building and now designing some great golf courses.
You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!
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The Golfing Greenkeeper TV - YouTube
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People and places mentioned in this podcast:
Ryan Van Der Veen - Facebook
Ryan Van Der Veen - SAGCA Profile
sagca.com.au
Pete Dye - Wikipedia
Palmira Golf Club
Purdue University Golf Club
Whistling Straits Golf Course
Blackwolf Run
Barefoot Golf & Resort
Trump International Golf Links - Doonbeg
CopperClub The Dunes - Port Hughes
The Grange Golf Club
Eastern Golf Club
Cathedral Lodge & Golf Club - Greg Norman Golf Course Design
New South Wales Golf Club
The Huntley Development - Landscape Concept
Glenelg Golf Club
Dye Designs Group
Greg Norman Golf Course Design
Love Golf Design
Fazio Design
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Walking the Fairways segment of The Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast is proudly brought to you by Dint Golf Solutions www.dint.com.au and Colin Campbell Chemicals www.campbellchemicals.com.au There's lots going on around Australia and right here is where you will get all the info you need to stay up to date.
I'm joined on this podcast episode by Tim Warren, Superintendent of Glenelg Golf Club in Adelaide. Tim gives us an update of the club's enhancement plan and how the most recent works are coming along on holes 8 and 9. He also provides an insight into the final holes remaining in the project.
There's also some information about in this episode of new work being completed on course at Elanora Country Club in Sydney, some architecture master planning of a couple of course in Western Australia, and the completion of the course enhancement works at Metropolitan Golf Club in Melbourne.
To finish off I catch up with Josh Smith, greenkeeper at Piltdown Golf Club in the UK after returning from his recent stint at TPC Sawgrass working on course at The Players Championship, and an update of Nigel Taylor's Everesting Challenge in his quest to raise awareness for mental health during 2025!
You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!
The Golfing Greenkeeper - Instagram
The Golfing Greenkeeper - Facebook
The Golfing Greenkeeper TV - YouTube
Send me an email to - [email protected]
People and places mentioned in this podcast:
Glenelg Golf Club
Glenelg Golf Club Course Team - Instagram
Dunsborough Lakes Golf Club
Contour Golf Design Group
Pinjarra Golf Club
Golf Course Superintendents Association Western Australia (GCSAWA)
Lake Karrinyup Country Club
Cottesloe Golf Club
Goldfields Golf Club - Kalgoorlie
Palm Beach Golf Club
Elanora Country Club
Kruse Golf - Facebook
Clayton DeVries & Pont (CDP)
Woodend Golf Club
Medway Golf Club
Box Hill Golf Club
Metropolitan Golf Club
Josh Smith, Adventures in Greenkeeping - Instagram
Piltdown Golf Club
TPC Sawgrass
The Players Championship
Nigel Taylor, The Dirty Dozen - Instagram
Keeper of the Greens - Shane Baker (Mosman Park Golf Club)
Keeper of the Greens - Josh Smith (Piltdown Golf Club)
Keeper of the Greens - Fraser Brown (Lake Karrinyuip Country Club)
Keeper of the Greens - John Mann (Metropolitan Golf Club)
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Shane Baker is Superintendent of Mosman Park Golf Club in Perth, Western Australia. Born and bred in Perth Shane kind of stumbled across greenkeeping during his high school years. Taking time during school to work in sports turf, Shane was soon working on the hallowed grounds of the WACA. Preparing turf for all manner of sports saw Shane gain a wealth of experience early on, as did his time working at Mount Lawley Golf Club. He also gained more experience working at The Western Australian Golf Club and attending the Ohio program which took him to Oakmont GC in the USA.
Shane's career has been anything but a straight line. Between working on numerous golf courses and the WACA ground in Perth, to working at exploring countless golf courses in the USA, Shane has gained more experience than your average greenkeeper which led him to his current long term post of 9 years as Superintendent at Mosman Park Golf Club.
Granted, the 9 hole golf course of Mosman Park is probably one you're not familiar with however, that doesn't mean it's one you shouldn't know about. Perched high above a magnificent rock cutting of the Swan River, Mosman Park GC is a unique golf course for not only it's beautiful yet tranquil city location, but also its mostly Santa Ana couch green surfaces. Yes, you heard me correctly, Santa Ana greens! Shane gives us an insight into the unique site the golf course is built on and just how interesting the golf course itself is. From its natural setting, to the water challenges, to the turf surfaces, to the routing of the course, this conversation has it all.
Join me for another fantastic ride to the west coast of Australia and an interesting insight into another fantastic greenkeeping career, this time with Superintendent Shane Baker.
You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!
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People and places mentioned in this podcast:
Mosman Park Golf Club
Mount Lawley Golf Club
The Western Australian Golf Club
WACA Ground - Wiki
Ohio International Intern Program
Oakmont Country Club
Quail Hollow Club
Araluen Estate
Nedlands Golf Club
Point Walter Golf Course
Sea View Golf Club
Fremantle Public Golf Course
Cottesloe Golf Club
Golf Course Superintendents Association of Western Australia (GCSAWA)
7 Mile Beach Golf
EP.118 The Design Brief: Rob Collins - King Collins Dormer - Spotify
EP.102 Keeper of the Greens - Idris Evans (The Western Australian Golf Club) - Spotify
EP.33 Keeper of the Green - Nathan Bennett (Royal Adelaide Golf Club)
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Rob Collins and King Collins Dormer are fast becoming well known throughout the United States of America, thanks in part to their design of cult hero golf course at Sweetens Cove Golf Club in Tennessee, and their big, bold, home run hitting design of the golf course at Landmand Golf Club in Nebraska, both under the former guise as King Collins. Apart from these special two designs, a number of other new golf course designs coming soon in the USA, and the addition of Trevor Dormer, thus becoming King Collins Dormer, they have something very new on their horizon. Their first new 18 hole course design outside the USA. And it will be at one of Australia's most talked about golf course destinations, 7 Mile Beach! Yes, with the 1st 18 hole course designed by Clayton DeVries Pont (CDP) soon to be open for play, King Collins Dormer are champing at the bit and ready to begin the design and construction of their addition, to not only this incredible golf site, but the Australian golf landscape!
Recorded during US Masters week, Rob Collins and I discuss his background to give the wider Australian audience a better understanding of just who both he and King Collins Dormer are. Oh yeah, and as it turns out, there's the uncanny prophetic skills of Rob picking the Masters winner after just 1 round! Rob takes us through his career in golf course design and we ride the wave of emotions that he has experienced to get to where he is today beginning with his first golf course baby - Sweetens Cove. From Sweetens to Landmand, and the small public 9 hole golf course redesign of Overton Park in the middle, would prove significant to the public's understanding of what the formerly known King Collins design team was capable of. Their fun, engaging, interesting and considerably entertaining designs had them standing out of the crowd. Enter the not yet open, 7 Mile Beach golf complex, the vision of Australian professional golfer and now golf course developer Mat Goggin, and the world has the ingredients for something truly sensational.
For all the fans out there of Australian golf courses and Rob Collins, this is one conversation you don't want to miss out on. Join me for some fun and insight with Rob as I get my fan-girling on and he butters us up to get even more excited about 7 Mile Beach in Hobart, Tasmania!
You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!
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People and places mentioned in this podcast:
King Collins Dormer
7 Mile Beach
Sweetens Cove Golf Club
Landmand Golf Club
Overton Park Golf Course
Bounty Club
21 Golf Club
Sand Hills Golf Club - Wiki
Pinehurst No.2
St Andrews Links - The Old Course
Royal Dornoch Golf Club
The Royal Country Down Golf Club
EP.84 - The Board Room: Mat Goggin (7 Mile Beach) - Apple
EP.84 - The Board Room: Mat Goggin (7 Mile Beach) - Spotify
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Royal Sydney Golf Club has been through a great deal of hard in the background prior to the commencement of breaking ground by Golf Course Architect Gil Hanse and his team back in 2023. Gil was selected by the club back in 2016 to reimagine the golf course, a club that is one of the oldest in Australia's.
Soon after the project's announcement, backlash from some members of the local community would ultimately force the project to the Land & Environment Court, which after a number of years, would rule in favour of the golf club.
Golf Course Superintendent, Adam Marchant, has an insight to the entire project that few others have. He and his team were at the centre of this entire project given that they are the ones who will care for and nurture the new golf course into the future, along with retaining the architectural and environmental integrity of what has been created.
If you want to know more about the detail of the new course at Royal Sydney Golf Club, then this is the podcast episode for you. Join with me as Adam gives a deep and extensive insight into the entirety of this enormous project from top to bottom and everything in-between, including how greenkeeping and architecture are intertwined to deliver a specific type of golf course. You are in the box seat as Adam describes everything in great detail that not only went into creating this new golf course, but what it will take to maintain it into the future.
Royal Sydney Golf Club could just be the new definition for golf in Sydney!
You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!
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People and places mentioned in this podcast:
Royal Sydney Golf Club
Gil Hanse Golf Design
Kruse Golf - Facebook
Eulonga Quarries
Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub as described by Randwick Council
Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub: Rescuing an endangered ecological community - PDF
Ohoopee Match Club
Victoria Golf Club
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Keeper Of The Greens segment of The Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast is brought to you by John Deere Golf. When you work where others play, you need a partner you can trust to keep your course in perfect condition. Find your nearest John Deere dealer at deere.com.au
Jeff Powell is Superintendent of Ballarat Golf Club in regional Victoria. Known as a fantastic regional golf course, it went through a complete redevelopment by Thomson Perrett in the early 2000's. Jeff has been employed at Ballarat for so long that he remembers quite vividly just what is was like maintaining the old golf course prior to the redevelopment.
The redevelopment of the golf course brought with it numerous challenges that Jeff walks us through and we hear the story in a very frank, honest, and sometimes laughable way.
Included in Jeff's long career at Ballarat GC, we hear about the climatic challenges of trying to maintain both cool and warm season turf grasses at this unique site. And sometimes that includes snow!
Join me on yet another sensational ride, this time with Jeff, as we traverse through time at Ballarat GC learning about some long lost maintenance practices and hear about what is involved with delivering a new golf course in regional Victoria, along with a few laughs along the way.
You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!
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People and places mentioned in this podcast:
Ballarat Golf Club
Perrett Webb Golf Course Architects
Mount Xavier Golf and Bowls Club
Midlands Golf Club
RACV Goldfields Resort
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Walking the Fairways segment of The Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast is proudly brought to you by Dint Golf Solutions www.dint.com.au and Colin Campbell Chemicals www.campbellchemicals.com.au There's lots going on around Australia and right here is where you will get all the info you need to stay up to date.
Yowani Country Club in Canberra is growing in very well and we're starting to see just what some of the holes are looking like. Royal Canberra Golf Club have also completed the conversion of their fairways to Santa Ana couch, and Federal GC are ticking through new work on course as part of their Crafter + Mogford course enhancement plan.
I'm joined on the podcast by Dave Mason who is currently reestablishing the Thargomindah 9 hole golf course in a remote part of Queensland. This is quite an incredible environment for golf and one that you just have to hear about to believe.
Superintendent Brett Stuesser also joins me and we learn about some of the new works they recently completed on their public 9 hole course in Melbourne's northern suburbs.
There's also the closing down of a 97 year old golf club in Sydney and my armchair take on the incredible Gil Hanse redesign and rebuild of Royal Sydney Golf Club's new course.
You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!
People and places mentioned in this podcast:
Yowani Country Club
Royal Canberra Golf Club
Federal Golf Club
Thargomindah
Gen1 Sportsturf - Facebook
Gen1 Sportsturf - Instagram
Outback Queensland Floods news article 31/3/25
Oak Point Golf Club
Royal Sydney Golf Club
Hanse Golf Course Design
Kruse Golf - Facebook
Killara Golf Club
Wagga City Golf Club
Blackheath Golf Club
Royal Hobart Golf Club
Royal Fremantle Golf Club
Point Walter Golf Course
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LIV Golf Adelaide - My Wrap Up is proudly brought to you by Your Tee Box. Check out their website for incredible prints of golf course routing artwork. Check out their website at yourteebox.com.au. Your Tee Box - The perfect golfers gift.
This episode chronicles my 24 hour adventure to LIV Golf Adelaide at The Grange Golf Club, including what I experienced, what I saw on the ground, and of course the reason for my journey, to hand deliver the #1 print of Your Tee Box's limited edition LIV Golf Adelaide - The Grange Golf Club routing artwork to Superintendent Rowan Daymond.
Come along for a fun adventure as I recap by epic 24 hour round trip to Adelaide including getting behind the ropes with the greenkeeping team, up close and personal with the LIV trophy and winners of the event by accident, and of course, surprising Superintendent Rowan Daymond with his special gift from Your Tee Box.
You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!
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The Golfing Greenkeeper - Facebook
Send me an email: [email protected]
People and places mentioned in this podcast:
Your Tee Box - The perfect golfers gift
The Grange Golf Club
LIV Golf Adelaide
Glenelg Golf Club
Devonport Country Club
Aston Hills Golf Club
Bribie Island Golf Club
North West Bay Golf Club
Ryan Van Der Veen
Greg Norman Golf Course Design
Mike Clayton Golf Design
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By the time you have finished listening to this episode, you'll want to be mates with Craig Walker. He's someone you want as a mate, a boss, a work colleague, or just someone you want to know.
If Craig hasn't done it, then I'm sure he's at least seen it! His career in greenkeeping has been diverse and his working career even more so as you'll hear. But things didn't start off that way. No, Craig studied accounting and law. Very logical steps to greenkeeping you might say........until he realised working inside wasn't for him. And lucky for us and the greenkeeping industry he figured that out early on.
Craig has managed golf courses in the past, now he manages 3 at once! He manages bowling greens, installs irrigation systems, and has worked as a turf renovation contractor. He's even had his own tiling business! He's been in, out, and then back in the greenkeeping industry. Like I said, Craig has just about done it all.
I take a turn back to Australia after a couple of interviews overseas, and this time I venture, with the help of Craig, into the island state of Tasmania where Craig is Superintendent of Devonport Country Club. Join us as we learn about Craig's diverse career, along with Devonport Country Club and some of Tasmania's former unknown great golf courses, that we all now know about thanks to Craig's insight.
You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!
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People and places mentioned in this podcast:
Devonport Country Club
Pittwater Golf Club
Ulverstone Golf Club
Port Sorell Golf Club
Thirlstone Golf Club
Llanherne Golf Club
7 Mile Beach Golf Course
Arm End Golf Course
Launceston Country Club Golf Course
Barnbougle
Cape Wickham Golf Links
Ratho Farm Golf Course
TSTMA
Nomadic Golfer - Instagram
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This episode of Walking the Fairways sees me chatting with Greens Director of Ashgrove Golf Club, Simon Putral in Brisbane, and Superintendent of Lakelands Golf Club, Richard Flesser, on the Gold Coast, to gain an insight into just what they experienced from Tropical Cyclone Alfred. We chat about damage done on their respective golf courses and I also discover how quickly they are able to recover!
Also included is my 1st time experience of a game at Moore Park Golf Course just a few days ago. I was joined by lead spokesperson of the Save Moore Park Golf Course campaign, Jared Kendler, for a short round of the back 8 holes, which is the location of the where the NSW State Government are planning to repurpose the public golf course to make way for a public park. What I experienced was nothing short of amazing!
I'm also joined on this episode by Nigel Taylor for an update of his Everesting Challenge that he is embarking on to raise awareness of mental health.
You hit 'em clean, we'll keep 'em green!
If any of the discussions in this podcast raised concerns with your mental health you can contact:
Lifeline (Australia): 13 11 14 or visit www.lifeline.org.au
Beyond Blue (Australia): 1300 224 636 or visit www.beyondblue.org.au
MensLine Australia: 1300 789 978 or visit mensline.org.au
People and Places mentioned in this podcast:
Ashgrove Golf Club
Lakelands Golf Club
Hope Island Golf Club
Sanctuary Cove Golf & Country Club
Palm Meadows Golf Club
Moore Park Golf Course
www.savemooreparkgolfcourse.com.au
The Dirty Dozen (Nigel Taylor) Instagram
The Dirty Dozen (Nigel Taylor) Facebook
Behind the Turf Podcast
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Keeper Of The Greens segment of The Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast is brought to you by John Deere Golf. When you work where others play, you need a partner you can trust to keep your course in perfect condition. Find your nearest John Deere dealer at deere.com.au
Josh Smith is a young passionate greenkeeper currently working at Piltdown Golf Club in the South East of England. Prior to his current stint at Piltdown, Josh spent time at Glenelg Golf Club in Adelaide here in Australia working with the on course team led by Superintendent Tim Warren.
Josh's greenkeeping career story so far is one that's on a steep incline. Searching far and wide to take in as much information and knowledge as possible Josh is always looking to learn as much as he can from as many different parts of the world as possible. Oh and did I mention that Josh is currently at TPC Sawgrass working on course right now preparing for The Players Championship tournament!
Join me as Josh and I chew the fat about greenkeeping all over the place and preparing for different tournaments of all tours.
You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!
People and places mentioned in this podcast:
Piltdown Golf Club
Glenelg Golf Club
East Sussex National Golf Club
Tandridge Golf Club
Wentworth Club
JCB Golf & Country Club
TPC Sawgrass
The Players Championship
BMW PGA Championship
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Keeper Of The Greens segment of The Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast is brought to you by John Deere Golf. When you work where others play, you need a partner you can trust to keep your course in perfect condition. Find your nearestJohn Deere dealer at deere.com.au
Chris Rae is an expat Aussie and Superintendent of Orkney Golf Club. Orkney Golf Club is located on the outskirts of the township of Kirkwall on the largest of the Orkney Islands to the north of Scotland.
Beginning his greenkeeping career at Pennant Hills Golf Club, one of Sydney's premier golf clubs, Chris was exposed to high end greenkeeping practices from the get go. It wasn't long before he moved to Concord Golf Club, also in Sydney, where he was mentored by one of the most respected greenkeepers of the industry, Superintendent Mark Parker who is now at NSW Golf Club.
After completing his greenkeeping trade at a couple of the best courses in Sydney and being trained by some of the best, Chris was given an opportunity to get hands on in golf course construction for a couple of years.
As life changes, Chris soon found himself with an opportunity to travel to Scotland after meeting his now wife and before he knew it he was trying to understand the Scottish accent in everyday life. A number of years working outside greenkeeping at a few of different jobs would soon make way for a chance at getting back on the greenkeeping tools and taking on the role of Superintendent at Orkney Golf Club. As it turns out, maintaining a golf course in the far north of Scotland is very different to that of maintaining a golf course in Sydney!
Chris's story has everything in it from maintaining golf courses at the top end of town in Sydney to the remoteness of island life a mere seven degrees latitude outside the Artic Circle! Come with me for my first journey to the other side of the planet and a conversation that includes golf that might start at 9am, sometimes finishes after midnight, 24 hours of daylight, castles, pheasants, Viking heritage and a church built in an era when the year sounds more like it's time for smoko!
You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!
People and places mentioned in this podcast:
Orkney Golf Club
The National Golf Club - The Old Course
Pennant Hills Golf Club
Concord Golf Club
NSW Golf Club
Royal Dornoch Golf Club
The Australian Golf Club
The Royal Melbourne Golf Club
Stuart Rennie
Tom Doak
Orkney Islands
International Island Games 2025
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Walking the Fairways segment of The Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast is proudly brought to you by Dint Golf Solutions www.dint.com.au and Colin Campbell Chemicals www.campbellchemicals.com.au
On this episode of Walking the Fairways there's extensive news from right around Australia! You'll get an insight directly from Jared Kendler, board member and lead spokesperson of Moore Park Golf Collective. Jared provides us with an update of where everything is at regarding the NSW State Governments plan to cut Moore Park GC down to 9 holes and the Moore Park Golf Collective groups alternative proposal that has been put forward to not only retain 18 holes of golf but also increase other public recreational offerings on the site.
There's lots of information regarding the opening of a number of completely renovated golf courses that are now open for play including Mount Lawley GC and Nedlands GC in Perth, along with the exciting redesigned NSW GC by UK based architects MacKenzie & Ebert.
We hear from Royal Perth Golf Club Superintendent Pat Casey about the opening of the recently completed stage 1 works of their golf course masterplan designed by co architects Clayton Devries Pont (CDP) and Kruse Golf. And there's an update about the mouthwatering prospect of preview play at 7 Mile Beach Golf Course in Hobart, Tasmania.
Join me on this lap around the country brought to you by new podcast partners Dint Golf Solutions and Colin Campbell Chemicals.
You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!
If any of the discussions in this podcast raised concerns with your mental health you can contact:
Lifeline (Australia): 13 11 14 or visit www.lifeline.org.au
Beyond Blue (Australia): 1300 224 636 or visit www.beyondblue.org.au
MensLine Australia: 1300 789 978 or visit mensline.org.au
People and places mentioned in this podcast:
Lakelands Golf Club
Gold Coast Festival of Golf
Moore Park Golf Collective
Moore Park Golf Course
Ballina Golf & Sports Club
Blackheath Golf and Community Club
Kew Golf Club
Riversdale Golf Club
Clayton Devries Pont (CDP)
Kruse Golf - Facebook
Arm End Golf Course
7 Mile Beach Golf Course
Glenelg Golf Club
Ryan Van Der Veen
Royal Perth Golf Club
Mount Lawley Golf Club
Wanneroo Golf Club
Nedlands Golf Club
Busselton Golf Club
Hartfield Country Club
Nigel Taylor - The Dirty Dozen Everest Challenge
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Keeper Of The Greens segment of The Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast is brought to you by John Deere Golf. When you work where others play, you need a partner you can trust to keep your course in perfect condition. Find your nearestJohn Deere dealer at deere.com.au
Terry Vogel is a man from the country through and through. What you're going to get from his story is a deep insight into the life of a regional Superintendent who details the highs and lows of his greenkeeping career and he includes all the thoughts that come with. Being a Superintendent isn't always easy and Terry shares his story that I'm sure is like so many others of the industry be it still in or now out.
A family man, Terry shares a great deal into what it has taken him to get to this point in his long and experienced greenkeeping career which includes his wife and children always close by on this bumpy ride. Unlike many greenkeepers Terry has played golf at a very high level having played and captained the Victorian State amateur team so he understands what is involved to be very good at the sport. Now, his daughter has gone one step further than he did and is a professional golfer that plays on the national women's tour!
Get comfy and join us as we embark on a unique journey like no one before on this podcast.
You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!
People and places mentioned in this podcast:
Cobram Barooga Golf Club
Women in turf Program
Webex Players Series Murray River
Australian Sports Turf Managers Association (ASTMA)
Club Tocumwal
Yarrawonga Mulwala Golf Club Resort
Bright Country Golf Club
WPGA
Vern Morcom
Kevin Hartley
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Keeper Of The Greens segment of The Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast is brought to you by John Deere Golf. When you work where others play, you need a partner you can trust to keep your course in perfect condition. Find your nearestJohn Deere dealer at deere.com.au
The Women in Turf Program is supported by John Deere in collaboration with Envu and the Australian Sports Turf Managers Association (ASTMA). A key part of the program sees a group of selected volunteer female greenkeepers from right across Australia assist the course maintenance team of Cobram Barooga Golf Club preparing their golf course for the Webex Players Series Murray River tournament.
Working with John Deere, I was given the opportunity to chat with each of the volunteers to get an insight into their greenkeeping careers understanding just what they enjoy about their chosen career, what it's like working and preparing a golf course for a tournament for the first time and what they are getting out of being part of this fantastic industry supported program. I also speak with Cobram Barooga Golf Club Superintendent Terry Vogel and CEO Bobby Brooks about what it means to have this program involved at their club.
Join me as we hear the enthusiasm from an energetic group of young female greenkeepers as they experience something new in a part of the country that they've not experienced before.
You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!
People and places mentioned in this podcast:
Women in turf Program
Cobram Barooga Golf Club
Webex Players Series Murray River
Australian Sports Turf Managers Association (ASTMA)
Settlers Run Golf & Country Club
Kooringal Golf Club
Charlestown Golf Club
Green by Nature
Next Gen Jobs
Maroondah City Council
City of Stirling
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