BOB MACKAY BACK IN NORTH AS MURCAR LINKS COURSE SUPREMO
By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Murcar Links Golf Club, hosts to the Scottish boys' match-play championship next April, have landed one of the most experienced Scots-born head greenkeepers/course managers to succeed Brian Anderson who retired last Friday after nearly 14 years.
The much-travelled Bob Mackay took up his new duties as Murcar Links course manager on Monday, some 34 years after he got his first job as an apprentice keeper at his local golf club, Royal Dornoch.
He later moved on to Worthing Golf Club in Sussex before getting his first head greenkeeping post, at Dumfries and County GC, in 1985.
He returned to Royal Dornoch as head greenkeeper in 1998, having worked in Ireland and then Prestwick St Nicholas Golf Club in the 1990s.
In 2004, he became course manager at the new Spey Valley course at Aviemore. Latterly, he held down a similar post at another Dave Thomas-designed course at The Roxburghe GC, Kelso.
Another former Royal Dornoch head greenkeeper, Robert Patterson, has been course manager for many years at Royal Aberdeen Golf Club whose Balgownie Links adjoin Murcar Links. This year Robert won a golf environmental award.
Now there's a 2012 target for Bob Mackay!
Murcar Links Golf Club, hosts to the Scottish boys' match-play championship next April, have landed one of the most experienced Scots-born head greenkeepers/course managers to succeed Brian Anderson who retired last Friday after nearly 14 years.
The much-travelled Bob Mackay took up his new duties as Murcar Links course manager on Monday, some 34 years after he got his first job as an apprentice keeper at his local golf club, Royal Dornoch.
He later moved on to Worthing Golf Club in Sussex before getting his first head greenkeeping post, at Dumfries and County GC, in 1985.
He returned to Royal Dornoch as head greenkeeper in 1998, having worked in Ireland and then Prestwick St Nicholas Golf Club in the 1990s.
In 2004, he became course manager at the new Spey Valley course at Aviemore. Latterly, he held down a similar post at another Dave Thomas-designed course at The Roxburghe GC, Kelso.
Another former Royal Dornoch head greenkeeper, Robert Patterson, has been course manager for many years at Royal Aberdeen Golf Club whose Balgownie Links adjoin Murcar Links. This year Robert won a golf environmental award.
Now there's a 2012 target for Bob Mackay!
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