EP.214 Keeper of the Greens - Richard Flesser (Lakelands Golf Club)

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Richard Flesser is the superintendent of the Jack Nicklaus signature designed Lakelands Golf Club on the Gold Coast in Queensland. He might be leading the team maintaining this well known course right now, but his career began far from the highs of such a facility.

Growing up as a Gold Coast boy, Richard wasn't one of those kids who was always chasing golf. Whilst he began mowing lawns at an early age, his father was a butcher by trade, and Richard went about earning money trying his hand at a number of different jobs.

When he did get an opportunity to work on a golf course, it wasn't the glamourous well known tracks of the Gold Coast we hear about today, but it was a start nevertheless! From here he would go on to help build a number of the most well known golf courses of the Gold Coast through the boom years of golf in the 1990's before settling into a career greenkeeping groove at Royal Pines and then Lakelands Golf Club itself.

Join Richard and I as he takes us on a nostalgic trip through the years of golf on the Gold Coast and hearing about the rise in his career along with the rise of golf on the Gold Coast, learning and experiencing some of the highest level of maintenance and presentation of any golf course working under some of the country's best greenkeepers.

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People and places mentioned in this podcast:

Lakelands Golf Club (lakelandsgolfclub.com.au)

Teven Golf Club (tevengc.com.au)

Surfers Paradise Golf Club (surfersparadisegolfclub.com.au)

Emerald Lakes Golf Club (emeraldlakesgolf.com.au)

Sanctuary Cove Golf and Country Club (sanctuarycovegolf.com.au/cms)

Palm Meadows Golf Course (palmmeadows.com.au)

RACV Royal Pines Golf Course (racv.com.au/travel-experiences/resorts/royal-pines-gold-coast/golf.html)

Long Reef Golf Club (longreefgolfclub.com.au)

Macquarie Links Golf Club (macquarielinksgolfclub.com.au)

Save North Lakes Golf Course (savenorthlakes.com.au)

Harbour Town Golf Links (seapines.com/golf/courses/harbour-town-golf-links)

Kooralbyn Valley Golf Course (thekooralbynvalley.com.au/golf)

The Glades Golf Club (glades.com.au)

EP.209 Keeper of the Greens - Glenn Beauclerc (open.spotify.com/episode/6JKgjuaMRB6bYRQHngmGe6)

EP.200 Celebrating 200 Episodes (open.spotify.com/episode/7sV4A2kAHaPExsl9c7PeoY)

EP.154 Keeper of the Greens - Scott Armstrong (open.spotify.com/episode/0ravRbk7mQr9IzjuGh6T0e)

EP.135 Steve's Random Special Guests - Mike O'Keeffe (open.spotify.com/episode/6mm35X4PpTK7bM6cbbu3aW)