GOLF
Royal Perth Golf Club
I was part of the team who were there to raise the standards of the course and the
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workshop. That’s where I really got the
greenkeeping bug; from then on I loved it, I thought it was an amazing job
there were some beautiful golf courses, and I always thought to myself, especially when I went down south to a place called Margaret River, that’s quite an interesting job. One day, I was in a pub having a few beers and bumped into a few guys from Royal Perth Golf Club, and they were advertising for a workshop mechanic, so I went for an interview and they offered me the job.” “So, instead of joining the fire brigade, I thought I’d see what this job is about. I started in 1991 with a new superintendent, so I was part of the team who were there to raise the standards of the course and the workshop. That’s where I really got the greenkeeping bug; from then on I loved it, I thought it was an amazing job.” “From there, I moved to Lake Karrinyup Country Club which was one of the top courses in Australia and, in 1995, I got asked to go and work in Hong Kong to help build a golf course on an island for the Jockey Club which was a Gary Player course. So I moved to Asia as a workshop manager and made my way up through the ranks to an assistant,
and I ended up being the Superintendent of the golf course that I helped build and I was there for ten years.” “After that, I set up my own company, Asia
Turf Solutions, and I was consulting, building golf courses, planning maintenance, and then ended up doing agronomy on new projects for Jack Nicklaus. Then I worked for the World Golf Championship renovating and rebuilding courses, and I was the Head Agronomist for the PGA Tour in China which involved helping to set up the PGA China Tour seven years ago. I went out and audited golf courses and found the venues for them and then prepared those courses for the tournaments.”
Whilst the beginning of Rick’s career had a sense of good timing and a bit of luck about it, the years that followed required dedication and a set of goals he wanted to achieve. His greenkeeping knowledge was built from the ground up, starting at Royal Perth and then more formally at Murdoch University studying Turf Management. That was built upon during his time in Hong Kong
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