Golf
fifteen, having never even picked up a golf club, Jimmy took a job as an apprentice greenkeeper at Ranfurly Castle Golf Club in his home village of Bridge of Weir, Scotland. Within six short years, he had worked his way up to Head Greenkeeper of the Killermont course at the Glasgow Golf Club - the fifth oldest golf club in the world, having been instituted 1787. In 1982, Jimmy was offered one of the most prestigious job positions in Scotland, as Estates and Golf Courses Director at the Gleneagles Resort. During twenty-one years, Jimmy prepared Gleneagles courses for seventeen championships, including eight consecutive PGA European Tour Bell’s Scottish Opens, and was the first to be awarded the Pan European Certificate for Environmental Excellence.
He played an integral role in the successful bid to bring the 2014 Ryder
Cup to Gleneagles. He also served as a consultant at the 2000 President’s Cup matches, working with the PGA of America as a consultant to and representative of the hosts, Fancourt Resort in South Africa.
Jimmy subsequently spent three years
as Director of Golf Operations at the exquisite Sandy Lane Resort on Barbados, where he grew in The Green Monkey Course, which was, in 2005, awarded the Golf Digest Best Course in the World to Play, and prepared the Country Club course for the World Cup of Golf in 2006 and, if that wasn’t enough, also coordinated the first Caribbean Golf Turf Maintenance vocational qualification. Jimmy’s son, David, was born and raised in the Scottish lowlands, and his route into the golf industry was somewhat different to his father. His
formal education came at Writtle College. He then completed an internship with Southern Golf, a leading golf course construction company, before joining Swan Golf Designs as a designer/project manager. In 1991, at the age of 24, David returned home to work as Director of Design for Gleneagles Golf Developments (GGD), a post he would hold until 1999. David’s belief that his working methods need to be flexible and site- specific became ingrained whilst working as the principal architect for GGD, for whom he designed and completed a number of courses across three continents, notably Gokarna Park Golf Resort, Kathmandu, Nepal; Golf De Andratx, Majorca, Spain; and Bandon Dunes, Oregon, USA.
In 1998, upon completion of Bandon
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