The Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast

It's time to take in some news about what's happening on golf courses around the country and I also give an update of some Aussie golf tournaments that have been televised recently. There's also some news of architecture appointments and time for a chat about my recent mini golf experience. If you want to stay up to date and excited about which golf courses are improving and who is doing what from...

It's time I caught up with friends of the podcast Loch & Leesh from Finding Fairways for a good old fashioned yarn about their trip driving around the enormous island of Australia playing golf! You might recall I chatted to Loch & Leesh back in EP.21 as they had just embarked on their 5 month trip around Australia in a campervan playing golf just about anywhere they could find a course. We...

Keeper Of The Greens is brought to you by Australian Turf Analysis - Aerial Technology for Sports Turf Management.  Mention the Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast to receive a 10% discount on your very first service. This episode is going to BLOW.......YOUR.......MIND!! I make my way virtually of course to the Sunshine Coast of the Sunshine state, being Queensland, into Noosa Golf Club where I catch...

Time to introduce a new segment to the podcast and what better way to do it than with my podcast partner Australian Turf Analysis. The idea behind this segment is to talk about some of the new technology available to the greenkeeping industry to help maintain golf courses. You've probably already heard the ads on my podcast as part of our partnership but this time i get to dive deep with John...

This segment of Walking The Fairways sees some news coming from Melbourne's famed Sandbelt along with a new mini golf course designed by an Australian golf course architecture firm. We venture to some courses mentioned for the first time in Walking The Fairways from Queensland and Western Australia and there's also some room for a new course announcement coming out of South Australia. Come for a i...

Keeper Of The Greens is brought to you by Australian Turf Analysis - Aerial Technology for Sports Turf Management.  Mention the Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast to receive a 10% discount on your very first service. I head down to the famous golf region of the Melbourne Sandbelt and into the newly redesigned Sandy Golf Links where I talk to Superintendent Geraldine O'Callaghan. One of very few fema...

The very first Walking The Fairways news segment for 2022 and wow isn't there plenty to talk about this time including a number of courses I haven't mentioned before and the recently played Australian PGA & WPGA from Royal Queensland. Come along for an enjoyable walk as we traverse the country together. Please don't forget to like, share, subscribe and as always i do appreciate you listening....

Keeper Of The Greens is brought to you by Australian Turf Analysis - Aerial Technology for Sports Turf Management.  Mention the Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast to receive a 10% discount on your very first service. This episode sees me return into NSW, to a region i love being the Central West and a town that is home to The Dish! Yes that's right I'm catching up with Superintendent of Parkes Golf...

Welcome to 2022 and I kick off the New Year with a brand new segment called The Board Room. The idea behind this segment is to give you an insight into the people who are the decision makers at golf clubs and golf courses. I want you to also get an understanding of who they are and how that sets down a path for the future of the courses and clubs they are behind.  In this episode I chat with...

Keeper Of The Greens is brought to you by Australian Turf Analysis - Aerial Technology for Sports Turf Management.  Mention the Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast to receive a 10% discount on your very first service. This episode I virtually head over across the country to the iron clad state of Western Australia and into Perth. I catch up with Mathew Soles newly appointed Superintendent of Royal Pe...

I've found him! In this podcast episode I get Tony Ellis on the phone for a catch up some 8 months after we last spoke. He's traveled to numerous courses and experienced all sorts of different golf from the cool climate and dramatic landscape of Tasmania to the far isolated reaches of opal country in northern South Australia.  Come along for the Christmas ride as Tony and I round up his exper...

Keeper Of The Greens is brought to you by Australian Turf Analysis - Aerial Technology for Sports Turf Management.  Mention the Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast to receive a 10% discount on your very first service. This episode I catch up with Superintendent Peter Cawsey from Eastwood Golf Club for the first course I venture to in great golf state of Victoria. We chat about his career from humble...

Walking The Fairways this week has news from all over the country including Western Australia! Please don't forget to like, share, subscribe and as always i do appreciate you listening. You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!

Keeper Of The Greens is back thanks to Australian Turf Analysis and this time I get to spend some time chatting to Superintendent Nathan Bennett from Royal Adelaide Golf Club in South Australia. I discover his greenkeeping story from growing up on the family wheat farm in the Mallee region of North Western Victoria, his apprenticeship working under the supervision of one of Australia's best superi...

Walking The Fairways this week has news from 5 states of Australia with plenty going on! Please don't forget to like, share, subscribe and as always i do appreciate you listening. You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!

Keeper Of The Greens makes a triumphant return as I head north (virtually of course) across the QLD border into the Gold Coast to chat with Superintendent Paul McLean. We talk about his humble upbringings in country NSW and his break into greenkeeping before his life goal and determined rise to maintaining a beautiful resort golf course on the Gold Coast. I'm sure you'll enjoy Paul's story and be...

Who knew that there was going to be so many reasons to get excited about tournament golf in Australia this coming Summer! The Greenkeepers Shed is back again this episode where I want to give you all some information as to why certain types of grass are used in different parts of a golf course and different parts of Australia so you can better understand how they will affect your golf and what to...

Walking The Fairways covers some news coming from one of Australia's largest golf destinations bring The Murray River, along with a few lesser known courses. The Greenkeepers Shed makes a triumphant return where I give you some information about why we roll greens and why it's so beneficial for golf and greenkeeping at the same time. You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green! People and places me...

Keeper Of The Greens makes a wild west return as I interview Superintendent Dave Rogers from Bathurst Golf Club in the central west of NSW. Dave and I chat about how he got into greenkeeping and his early start as Superintendent at a young age. He talks about the flexibility the greenkeeping industry has afforded him during his career and also name drops some pretty big Australian players along th...

Walking The Fairways this week has news coming out of Victoria and also Queensland. There's also been a number of announcements about tournament golf in Australia. Please don't forget to like, share, subscribe and as always i do appreciate you listening. You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!

Keeper Of The Greens returns and I welcome you to come and listen to my interview with Superintendent Nathan Bradbury from the underrated Eastlake Golf Club in Sydney's eastern suburbs. We chat about how he started out greenkeeping in a country area and travelling to the other side of the planet before ultimately becoming a Superintendent in Sydney. I also get some amazing insight into why the pub...

Walking The Fairways in this episode covers plenty of news coming out of Victoria, South Australia and some new stuff for the sustainable golf component I love to talk about. Oh and I received an interesting phone call from the Australian PGA....... Please don't forget to like, share, subscribe and as always i do appreciate you listening. You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!

This podcast episode titled Keeper Of The Greens is an interview with Superintendent Phil Hill from magnificent Barnbougle in Tasmania. We chat about his greenkeeping career and how he became Superintendent at Barnbougle and also discuss specifically what makes Barnbougle so unique as a golf experience. Places and people mentioned in the podcast: Barnbougle

Walking The Fairways in this episode covers plenty of news coming out of WA, Queensland and an enormous amount of work and news coming from NSW! The Greenkeepers Shed is backing up again this episode where I want to give you an insight into what thatch is and how you can read a golf course to adjust your game to play better when high thatch levels are present. Please don't forget to like, share, s...

Walking The Fairways in this episode covers plenty of news coming out of Victoria, Queensland & South Australia including some great work being done by Ben Davey from Contour Golf at Mornington Golf Club.  The Greenkeepers Shed makes a return where i want to talk about hole location maps being used at some clubs and just why I think they're meaningless and impracticable! Please don't forg...