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I love getting involved with the team. I still call myself a head greenkeeper and not a course manager. I’m a greenkeeper more than a manager; that’s what I do best


retired; we need to get the course back to where it once was and take it into the next hundred years. There’s a lot of work to be done; we are pushing forward with it, and it’s going well.”


Whilst on this topic, Helen Chivers, the club’s Head of Marketing, joined us and told me her thoughts as she is also a firm believer in the project. “Change is difficult, and people remember what they see now. Paul’s


been here for years and he is well aware that a lot of the gorse you see now wasn’t here in the seventies and eighties. We have had some people saying that it’s been there forever, and then we show them pictures from thirty years ago and there is no gorse at all. The initial shock when you take out a lot of gorse which has been there for fifteen years or more is one of disappointment, but then they see the trees that we have


uncovered, and they see the topography and views they haven’t seen for years, perhaps never! Then, almost universally, they say ‘this is amazing, why did we not do this earlier?’.” I suggested to Helen this will only be good for the future of the course and will be a great marketing tool to attract even more golfers in the years to come. “Yes, that’s true,” she exclaims. “It also helps make Paul’s and his team’s job much easier


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