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Bailey Wake is Superintendent of Highercombe Golf Club, just outside metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia. He's a young man with a passion for grass that he always knew he had but never knew he could follow it as a career.

You're about to hear the story of a greenkeeper where the career found the person and not the other way around! Bailey never knew greenkeeping was a job let alone a career. He enjoyed playing football and being outside but looking after grass, on a golf course?! What was that! After all, he had never even swung a golf club until he finished school.

The golf bug grabbed Bailey after just one outing at a driving range. The next time out, he and some friends upgraded to playing on a golf course for the first time, and that golf course happened to be Highercombe Golf Club. Days later Bailey received a call from a family friend saying that there was a job available as an apprentice greenkeeper at Highercombe. And the rest they say is history.

Come along for a ride of a different kind as Bailey lets us in on the details of his career as a greenkeeper and shares some great insights into the mind of a young person looking for work after finishing school. He also gives us some inside info of the course at Highercombe and just why it's time you played a round of golf there again.

You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!

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People and places mentioned in this podcast:

Highercombe Golf Club

Tea Tree Gully Golf Club

Mount Osmond Golf Club

The Grange Golf Club

Glenelg Golf Club

Royal Adelaide Golf Club

Kooyonga Golf Club

The Australian Sports Turf Managers Association (ASTMA)

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In this special segment of Walking the Fairways I have the privilege of chatting with Director of Course of Royal Melbourne Golf Club - Richard Forsyth. Richard gives us a full insight into just how the course has been coming along this season only 5 weeks out from the nation's biggest tournament! We talk about all the turf surfaces, turf challenges, expectations, and weather, along with many of the finer details that go into creating a true Royal Melbourne experience for the tournament.

If you want to hear first hand exactly how the course is being prepared and know just what to expect for the tournament, then this is the podcast for you! Sit back and enjoy as Richard takes us around the composite course of the amazing Royal Melbourne Golf Club so close to round one of the men's Australian Open.

You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!

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EP.95 Keeper of the Greens - Richard Forsyth

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Righto, it's time for a deep dive for the turf nerds out there, or anyone who is interested in learning more about specific turf on a golf course.

If you've ever wondered just how much thinking goes into preparing a golf course and it's turf surfaces, then this is very much the episode for you!

I venture out to Duntryleague GC in Orange NSW to catch up with Superintendent Craig Geeve who generously gives us a deep insight into his maintenance practices of the unique turf surfaces of Duntryleague GC, including Poa annua putting greens and South African couch (Cyndodon tranvaalensis) fairways. There's lots of details in this one and lots of general conversation, discussion, questions, and personal insights from both of us.

If you really want to go full turf nerd, join Craig and I out on course as this episode might just hit all the right notes and maybe even have you asking more questions afterwards. And that's how we like it.

You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!

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People and places mentioned in this podcast:

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EP.145 Keeper of the Greens - Craig Geeve