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Interviewing The Golf Course Manager

Posted on April 8, 2015
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The 2013/14 winter was one of the wettest on record, and it presented many golf courses with unenviable problems from the flash floods. Here Sweetwoods Park Golf Club Course Manager, Allan Tait, talks about how the course he is responsible for fought its way out of the floods and made an astounding comeback… What was your background before you joined Sweetwoods in March 2014? I began my career when I was 21 as a green keeper at Chartham Park Golf Club. After learning the ropes, I built my career as a well-respected Course…Read more …

Littlestone Golf Club Course Review

Posted on March 11, 2015
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Give me a links course any day. Even in the wind and rain they are a joy but given a sunny day, they are like golfing manna to those of us who dream of making up fourballs with Harry Vardon, Bobby Jones and Old Tom Morris. And playing Littlestone, tucked away in the south-eastern corner of Kent, delivers that kind of unbridled purist joy. The course is laid out on classic golfing terrain, next door to the famous Romney Marshes. Dating from 1888, the list of architectural influences reads like a veritable Who’s…Read more …