Born in France to a Tunisian mother and Italian father it appears fate might immediately have been signposting Enzo Lucian’s path to a life of travel and multi-cultural experiences.

This certainly seems to have been the case with the now 36-year-old subsequently working in Spain, Portugal, Australia, Mauritius, Russia and Luxembourg as well as his native France.

His latest port of call, and potentially his longest, is Africa with Lucian recently named as director of golf at the prestigious and luxurious Fairmont Royal Palm Marrakech, a worldclass.golf destination.

His appointment, his first in such a role after 15 years as a teaching golf professional, came within six months of him obtaining his golf director’s Bachelor’s Degree and after seeing off around 300 other candidates.

Any justifiable pride he felt quickly gave way to pragmatism as he first honoured a month’s worth of lesson commitments before plunging into life at Royal Palm. He had just one day off in the first two months, his choice as he sought to familiarise himself swiftly with the personnel.

Lucian comments: “I have to learn every moment of every day and the most important thing, I think, is the people. But my staff helped me a lot, changing the course and changing the services, and my staff is behind me and I am super proud of this. They were really receptive of what I said to them and they see the result.

“We have a square, that is for sure, but within the square they have complete freedom to let their personality work.

Everyone has a different way to manage, but me, I am totally free and totally relaxed with them, I’m not strict. But the job has to be done and they do it by managing themselves.”

Royal Palm’s members all have property on site, with their value ranging between around £1.5m (€1.7m) to £3.5m/£4m (€4m/€4.5m). The fact that a rise in green fees from circa £230 to £300 has not seen traffic fall is a testament to the splendour of the course and its setting as well as improvements that have already been implemented under Lucian’s watch.

Already vaunted as one of Morocco’s, and indeed North Africa’s top golfing destinations, he is keen to attract even more guests to a resort whose environment can offer almost guaranteed sunshine as well as low humidity.

Some prospective employers might have been deterred by Lucian’s extensive number of jobs and his apparent wanderlust, but he believes his international past was a factor in securing the job – “and also because of my personality,” he laughs.

His self-motivation to both integrate himself in unfamiliar cultures and learn new languages will also no doubt have impressed. As well as French he speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese, teaching himself with the use of “dictionaries and Google translate.”

He travelled to the other side of the world to work as a barman in Australia to improve his English, but he reveals that he might confine himself to looking no further afield than the scope of Fairmont’s extensive portfolio in the future.

“My aim is to stay with Fairmont because it’s a beautiful course, a beautiful environment at the hotel, and with Fairmont, if I do a good job, I can maybe move to another Fairmont.”

This may be some while off as he adds: “Actually, now my wife said, ‘okay, can we please stay here?’

“My dream in the beginning was to go to Asia, Singapore, which is 13 hours’ flight and my wife said, ‘I want to stay close to Europe’. It’s like two hours from Lyon, two hours from Luxembourg, so it is pretty easy for her to go back to see the family, and also easy for friends to visit us.”

He attributes his nomadic professional existence to his parentage, commenting: “My mum is Muslim and my dad is Catholic. I am a mix of both of them and I want to learn how to be multicultural. I never changed jobs because I was fired, I changed because I wanted to do something else.”

Lucian rates his experience at the Pestovo Golf and Yacht Club, 20 miles north of Moscow, as among his best, adding: “Moscow was a lovely place, believe me, but I was so happy to get to Russia when I turned 30, 31 with my past experiences. Because if I get to Russia when I was 22, 23 I maybe would not have enjoyed it as much.

“I knew how to behave with those kind of people. You’re talking about millions of millions of euros, you need to be prepared, you need to behave as a gentleman,” he said.

“When you are 22, you are still a kid and even if you have received a good education they don’t take you seriously, but when you are 30, 31 and have been a golf pro in different places they start to listen to you.”

He and his wife are already enamoured with the Moroccan lifestyle and enjoy wandering Morocco’s famous souks. In typical fashion, Lucian quickly taught himself a few Arabic phrases, but recently learned the truth of the saying a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.

“I went to the souk with my wife and I started to speak just a little bit of Arabic – hello, how are you – and we liked a plate and I said, ‘how much is this?’ The guy thought I could speak Arabic and he gave me the prices – and I was completely lost because I didn’t learn the numbers yet.”

The experience put a smile on his face – but he didn’t feel the need to augment it with some new dentures. “I saw a guy selling teeth, and I said ‘what is going on here? He said, ‘do you want a canine or a molar?’ and I said. ‘no, I’ve got all the teeth in my mouth thanks, so it’s okay’.

“With experiences like that, you have a lot to talk about to people when you have dinner with them, so it’s funny.”

Lucian has an easy engaging charm and self-deprecating humour, and it is easy to see why he has been so successful in a career that has required him to both put people at ease and be at ease himself, although there is one exception to the latter.

“I’m not shy, I can go and speak to everyone. The only thing I don’t like is to speak with a microphone. That I don’t like, I don’t feel comfortable.”

He first swung a club at the age of three and by the time he was 18, with a plus four handicap, he knew he wanted to be a golf professional, “but I was very lucid at that time because I knew inside of me that I didn’t have the level to reach the European Tour,” he admits.

“I said, ‘okay, I want to work in the golf industry, that’s for sure, I know how to play but not good enough.

“I didn’t want to go travelling to play tournament, tournament, tournament, missed cut, missed cut, missed cut, losing money and then to be frustrated and then to stop playing golf altogether.”

He loves playing golf with his 65-year-old father, who has a handicap of one. “Sometimes we make a match, and he wins sometimes. It is funny because we have a lot of pictures, and if someone wins the match they have their arms high and the loser is on the knee. We have a lot of pictures like this and he put together a tableau of pictures.”

It is noticeable that working in the UK does not feature on his extensive CV. Might he have been put off by the English food? The English weather?

He chuckles – and gently protests. “I thought to go actually a couple of years ago, but the problem as a golf pro is you need to pass again an equivalence because the certificate to be a golf pro in France is not recognised perfectly, that’s why.”

Away from golf he is a keen surfer and skier, and he “of course likes football, because I am French and we are going to win the next World Cup – I hope.”