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The Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast

The Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast

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 The podcast to listen to if you want to know everything there is about Australian golf courses, greenkeeping and architecture so you can get more out of your game!Steve Smith Golf
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  • EP.122 Keeper of the Greens - James Newell (Magenta Shores Golf & Country Club)

    EP.122 Keeper of the Greens - James Newell (Magenta Shores Golf & Country Club)
    May 12 2025
    Keeper Of The Greens segment of The Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast is brought to you by John Deere Golf. When you work where others play, you need a partner you can trust to keep your course in perfect condition. Find your nearest ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠J⁠ohn Deere dealer⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠deere.com.au⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠James Newell is Superintendent of Magenta Shores Golf & Country Club on the NSW Central Coast just north of Sydney. I took some time to catch up with James and record this podcast with him in his office at Magenta.James has an amazing story that harks back to his homeland in New Zealand. With a farm background and creating and playing on his own rudimentary golf course with his brother, working outside for a living wasn't a far flung idea and James was able to get his first taste of sports turf maintenance through working for a local council. Stepping through the years of working as an apprentice greenkeeper and playing golf regularly, James soon took the opportunity to for a short stint of work on course at the well known Paraparaumu Beach Golf Club. Over the next few years James worked at a couple of courses including the outstanding Cape Kidnappers before heading back to a great opportunity at Paraparaumu Beach GC.James' next career move saw him head across the ditch to the great Melbourne Sandbelt region. Taking in all that he continued to learn and be involved with in his career, it wasn't long before James landed his first career superintendents role at Magenta Shores in NSW.James and I also discuss just what it takes to not only look after and prepare Magenta Shores but also, to a further point, the detail that is required to understand and maintain any golf course. Why do we do what we do and how to get the best out of a golf course, all whilst understanding what and who you are doing it for. Golf greenkeeping isn't just about maintaining turf, it's about maintaining turf in a particular local environment for the game of golf.This is one epic convo! I didn't know what to clip out to make it shorter so I just left it all if for you to listen, so strap yourselves in for James and Steve's epic adventure!You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!⁠⁠The Golfing Greenkeeper - Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠The Golfing Greenkeeper - Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Golfing Greenkeeper TV - YouTube⁠Send me an email to - thegolfinggreenkeeper@gmail.comPeople and places mentioned in this podcast:Magenta Shores Golf & Country ClubParaparaumu Beach Golf ClubCape KidnappersWoodlands Golf ClubYarra Yarra Golf ClubMount Lawley Golf ClubCrafter + Mogford Golf StrategiesOCM GolfRenaissance Golf Design Renaissance Golf Design - Tom Doak
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    2 h y 18 m
  • EP.121 The Design Brief - Ryan Van Der Veen (Van Der Veen Designs)

    EP.121 The Design Brief - Ryan Van Der Veen (Van Der Veen Designs)
    May 8 2025
    The Design Brief is back and this time I'm chatting with another member of The Society of Australian Golf Course Architects, Ryan Van Der Veen.Ryan joins me to chat about his career, beginning with his time in golf course construction from a young age back in the USA where he was born. After getting his start using heavy machinery on weekends and school holidays, it was during his time studying at Purdue University where Ryan was given an opportunity to work with the late great Pete Dye with the reconstruction of their golf courses.From this early association with Pete Dye, Ryan was offered an opportunity to work at a golf course Pete Dye was building that in time would become the revered Whistling Straits Golf Course!Along with working with Pete Dye, Ryan spent a number years working as part of Greg Norman Golf Course Design team outside the USA including constructing the spectacular new Doonbeg in Ireland. It would soon turn that Ryan was asked to work in Australia with the Norman design team at a new golf course being constructed outside Adelaide in South Australia, when things soon changed thanks to the GFC! Ryan worked on a few other projects leading the Norman design and build team at some of our well known golf courses including Grange in Adelaide and Cathedral Lodge in Victoria, before life would soon see Ryan stay here in Australia and start his own golf course design business - Van Der Veen Designs.Join us for a great yarn hearing some wonderful stories from Ryan of building and now designing some great golf courses.You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!⁠The Golfing Greenkeeper - Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Golfing Greenkeeper - Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Golfing Greenkeeper TV - YouTube⁠⁠Send me an email to - thegolfinggreenkeeper@gmail.comPeople and places mentioned in this podcast:Ryan Van Der Veen - FacebookRyan Van Der Veen - SAGCA Profilesagca.com.auPete Dye - WikipediaPalmira Golf ClubPurdue University Golf ClubWhistling Straits Golf CourseBlackwolf RunBarefoot Golf & ResortTrump International Golf Links - Doonbeg CopperClub The Dunes - Port HughesThe Grange Golf ClubEastern Golf ClubCathedral Lodge & Golf Club - Greg Norman Golf Course DesignNew South Wales Golf ClubThe Huntley Development - Landscape ConceptGlenelg Golf ClubDye Designs GroupGreg Norman Golf Course DesignLove Golf DesignFazio Design
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    2 h y 6 m
  • EP.120 Walking the Fairways - feat. Tim Warren (Glenelg Golf Club)

    EP.120 Walking the Fairways - feat. Tim Warren (Glenelg Golf Club)
    May 5 2025
    Walking the Fairways segment of The Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast is proudly brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Dint Golf Solutions⁠⁠⁠ www.dint.com.au and ⁠Colin Campbell Chemicals⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ www.campbellchemicals.com.au There's lots going on around Australia and right here is where you will get all the info you need to stay up to date.I'm joined on this podcast episode by Tim Warren, Superintendent of Glenelg Golf Club in Adelaide. Tim gives us an update of the club's enhancement plan and how the most recent works are coming along on holes 8 and 9. He also provides an insight into the final holes remaining in the project.There's also some information about in this episode of new work being completed on course at Elanora Country Club in Sydney, some architecture master planning of a couple of course in Western Australia, and the completion of the course enhancement works at Metropolitan Golf Club in Melbourne.To finish off I catch up with Josh Smith, greenkeeper at Piltdown Golf Club in the UK after returning from his recent stint at TPC Sawgrass working on course at The Players Championship, and an update of Nigel Taylor's Everesting Challenge in his quest to raise awareness for mental health during 2025!You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!⁠The Golfing Greenkeeper - Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠The Golfing Greenkeeper - Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Golfing Greenkeeper TV - YouTube⁠Send me an email to - thegolfinggreenkeeper@gmail.comPeople and places mentioned in this podcast:⁠Glenelg Golf ClubGlenelg Golf Club Course Team - InstagramDunsborough Lakes Golf ClubContour Golf Design GroupPinjarra Golf ClubGolf Course Superintendents Association Western Australia (GCSAWA)Lake Karrinyup Country ClubCottesloe Golf ClubGoldfields Golf Club - KalgoorliePalm Beach Golf ClubElanora Country Club⁠Kruse Golf - FacebookClayton DeVries & Pont (CDP)Woodend Golf ClubMedway Golf ClubBox Hill Golf ClubMetropolitan Golf ClubJosh Smith, Adventures in Greenkeeping - Instagram⁠Piltdown Golf ClubTPC Sawgrass⁠⁠The Players ChampionshipNigel Taylor, The Dirty Dozen - InstagramKeeper of the Greens - Shane Baker (Mosman Park Golf Club)Keeper of the Greens - Josh Smith (Piltdown Golf Club)Keeper of the Greens - Fraser Brown (Lake Karrinyuip Country Club)Keeper of the Greens - John Mann (Metropolitan Golf Club)
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    1 h y 9 m
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