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Thorpeness Golf Club A strange time!
Since March 2020, the phrase ‘a strange time’ has been used constantly to describe the world we are all currently living in. However, for Thorpeness Golf Club and Hotel’s new Course Manager, Wallace Wilson, those three words could not ring more true
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allace Wilson’s position before Thorpeness was at Milngavie Golf Club where he was only the third Head Greenkeeper in their
history. As a rule, those who had the job stayed for life but, after eighteen years, the time was right for Wallace to seek a new challenge, something that is a theme throughout his career. At twenty-one years old, on the advice of his boss at Clydebank & District Golf Club - Wallace’s local club where he was born in the hospital that used to overlook the 18th fairway - he moved to Royal Ashdown Forest as one of two Head Greenkeepers, serving
under a Course Manager, before seeking grow-in and construction experience at the nearby Sweetwoods Park Golf Club. After nine years and with his parents and children getting older, he decided to head home to Scotland and Milngavie was his destination. Project-based jobs have been a characteristic of Wallace’s course choices, be it learning, gaining grow-in and construction experience or undoing the issues caused by the enthusiasm of Grow a Tree in ’73 and plant some more in ’74 at Milngavie. The experienced Scotsman arrived on the Suffolk Coast on 3rd February 2020 to begin work on his latest project, with
heather regeneration at the forefront. What should have been a time of getting to know the course and staff was stopped in an instant, and Wallace was faced with a situation unlike anything he’d experienced in his thirty-six-year career
“I remember the day when we closed, it was just me here, and that was a pretty surreal kind of time going around and taking all the flags out and thinking this is us closing our doors, what’s next? Literally, what is next? Are we ever going to open again?” Wallace explains. “Obviously, all these things are going through your head. Am I going to have a job? I’ve only been here a few weeks. I
PC December/January 2021
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