José Ignacio Olea;
Finca Cortesin
“Golf teaches invaluable life lessons — patience, discipline, and respect for others. It’s our responsibility to ensure these values are passed on, making the sport more accessible and inclusive for all. The future of golf lies in sustainability and innovation, and we want Finca Cortesin to be a place where golf meets culture, where every visitor leaves with memories that transcend the sport itself.”
Nuno Sepúlveda;
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“This year I went to Augusta National on the Sunday for the Masters and I fell in love with golf again, and then I went to play the Old Course in St Andrews as well. I’m playing golf every week now. For the first time in 15 years I’m crazy about golf again. I’d seen the Masters on television for 20 years, but it was 100 times better than I expected. I would encourage anyone who has the chance to go there to go because it’s mind blowing.”
Stuart Collier;
Stoke Park
“From a personal point of view, I’m very much invested in this because I’ve spent 22 years operationally here with another three to five years to deliver a huge refurbishment project. Again, it will broaden my skill set. I’ll learn a lot more in that five-year period than I would have done in the previous ten, because we were just tweaking and making small changes. This is root and branch — heart surgery stuff.”
Ashley Northridge;
Kingswood Golf & Country Club
“What was interesting about the role and what really caught my eye was that before I came, the business was kind of failing, and when I had my interview, they really wanted me to turn the business around. And I think, knowing that I like a challenge, that was what really attracted me to it. I want to get known for the condition of the playing surfaces here because there’s not a lot we can change with the design of the course.”
Hans de Kort;
Aqua Aid Europe
“What we see happening now is water has become scarce, the cost of water is going up dramatically — people say water is going to be the gold of the future. The average 18-hole golf course takes about 250,000 cubic metres of water a year. Even at a cost of just €1 a cubic metre, that’s €250,000 that has to come from somewhere and that’s an additional cost, because in the past they didn’t have to pay for it.”
The Royal Golf Club;
Bahrain
Ask anyone who has ventured to the Middle East to play golf, and I’d be willing to bet that the vast majority of golfers will have played in Dubai, and probably, Abu Dhabi too. But look a little further away from the glitz and glamour of the UAE, and you will discover that Bahrain — the tiny Kingdom Island situated just off Saudia Arabia in the Persian Gulf — has a lot to offer, and not just when it comes to golf.