Golf - Brits Abroad
The 13th green at Lake Nona, scene of the Tavistock Cup The time I spent at Lake Nona
was a great learning curve. I had advanced my knowledge in so many different ways; calibration, overseeding, cool season grasses, warm season turf diseases, fungicide use and application, to name but a few. You can’t get training like this
on any other program. I will be forever grateful to Carson and his staff for the six months I spent with him, as he taught me so much. It was time to leave Orlando -
no more Universal Studios, Disneyland, Sea World, International Drive, Cape Kennedy, Gaterland, Busch Gardens ... my local bar was the Hard Rock Café. Would I miss it? Probably, but I had decided to extend my stay on the program for another six months.
Mike O’Keeffe had contacted me about possible placements back north. Some very good ones came up and we were working hard to find the best one. Then I got a phone call from Bob Becker at Scioto; three of his management team were leaving and he needed me back to help train the new guys and add experience to the crew. It was a managerial position. Mike and I agreed it was the best move. In late March 2012, I said my
goodbyes to Orlando, got in my car and drove the 1000 miles back to Columbus. I left at 3.00am and arrived in Columbus at 6.00pm, a fifteen hour drive. It sounds bad, but I watched the sunrise in Georgia, travelled through North and South Carolina, Virginia, and West
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