By Tate Papworth
What’s your connection to Brimbank?
I started playing golf out here when I was a young fella at 10 years old. I played around the world for a little while and for the past eight years I’ve been back here coaching.
You’ve been around the world – what brought you back here?
The people out here are great, everyone is really nice. It’s a really relaxed place to work. I love teaching the kids too, that’s my major priority.
What could be done better?
It would be nice to have shelter on the range for the kids so they could play when it’s raining or in the winter. It’s a great facility out here.
What sort of coach are you?
I coach everyone from the beginners to the elite. My main passion is coaching the kids after school and on Saturday morning. It’s all based around technique. Hopefully people can come to me with a problem and I can solve it. I think the best way to learn is on-course.
It’s been a long career, what’s the highlight?
Highlight was winning the Calgary Open in 1998, but meeting people out there was also great. But my next highlight will be seeing the kids I’ve coached come up and hopefully do better than me.
Would you like to see more kids give golf a go?
So the schools out this way can get a grant of up to $3000 to bring kids out here and I’m amazed not more do it. There’s some 80 schools out this way and I only teach about two of them. I’d love to see more schools at least get the kids out once a year and give it a try.
