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EP.152 Keeper of the Greens - Bailey Wake (Highercombe Golf Club)
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EP.152 Keeper of the Greens - Bailey Wake (Highercombe Golf Club)
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Nov 10, 20251:27:01
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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 (highercombegolf.com.au)
Tea Tree Gully Golf Club (ttggolfclub.com.au/cms)
Mount Osmond Golf Club (mogc.com.au/cms)
The Grange Golf Club (grangegolf.com.au/cms)
Glenelg Golf Club (glenelggolf.com/cms)
Royal Adelaide Golf Club (royaladelaidegolf.com.au/cms)
Kooyonga Golf Club (kooyongagolf.com.au/cms)
The Australian Sports Turf Managers Association (ASTMA) (astma.com.au)
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1 hour 27 minutes.
