Keith Nicholson new Baberton club manager

FROM THE EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS WEBSITE
By MARTIN DEMPSTER
Keith Nicholson, the Lothians captain and current county champion, is the new club manager at Baberton, where he has succeeded Bernard Flockhart.
Nicholson, pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency, had been out of work since his services in a similar role at Haddington were dispensed with due to cost-cutting measures."It is close on a couple of years since I left Haddington and I am delighted to get this job, particularly at such an interesting time for the club," said Nicholson.
That was a reference to Baberton having recently secured planning permission for a new clubhouse and efforts are now being made to finance that by finding a developer to build flats on the site of the existing clubhouse.
"Like most other clubs, we are trying to retain membership and, even since I started at the beginning of the month, we've had ten under-30s join, which is encouraging," noted Nicholson.
"Baberton are also in a fortunate position that a lot of the work has already been done on a major project for its greens. The club is spending between £600,000-£700,000 on putting in USGA greens and 15 have been done, so it is just a case of putting the final touches with the remaining three.
"Bernard and his committee have done a great job planning things out over a period of time and I feel fortunate to be taking up the reins from him."
Flockhart, who has been at the Juniper Green club for the past ten years,leaves at the end of the month.