CURRICULUM VITAE

 

NAME:	David Benjamin Mathews	DATE OF BIRTH:	28 May 1967
E-MAIL:	slimgolfbuild@hotmail.com	MARITAL STATUS:	Single
WEB SITE:	www.slimgolfbuild.com	HEALTH:	Excellent
		NATIONALITY:	British

Provided practical and management services as a golf course sub-contractor for:-


March – June 2002, SOUTHERN GOLF GMBH

27 Hole Dr Franco Piras designed project at: Cornate D’adda, Milan, Italy.

Finishing/Seeding management to USGA specification Greens and Tees.
Greens seeded with 100% Penn A4 Creeping Bentgrass (Agrostis Palustris)
Tees seeded with 100% Penn G6 Creeping Bentgrass (Agrostis Palustris)

October - December 2001 SOUTHERN GOLF GMBH
(Sub-Contractor)
Responsible for finishing / seeding works to greens and tees on a 9 hole Michael Pinner design at Passail, Austria.

July - October 2001 SOUTHERN GOLF LIMITED
(Sub-Contractor)
Responsible for finishing / seeding works to greens and tees on the 18 hole Dennis Griffiths designed Derlin Course at the 26 hole St Andrews bay development, St Andrews, Scotland.

July 2000 - March 2001 CONSTRUCTION GREENKEEPER FOR S&G LTD
Tobago Plantations Golf & Country Club
Tobago, West Indies

Member of management team contracted by Bob Hunt, Architect of the PGAGM, to complete construction and grow in, to international standard, of an 18 hole championship golf course.

Key Responsibilities:

• All fertilization and chemical application programmes.
• Commissioning of irrigation system.
• Construction and re-construction work to championship specification.
• Establishment of all turf surfaces.
• Supervision and training/development of 75 maintenance and construction staff,
both male and female.
• Direct liaison with the project architects and managers.
• Working within budgets.
• Environmental/Health & Safety Laws.
 

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

September 1995- July 2000 S&G LTD

Golf course construction and refurbishment. Since commencing employment I have carried out construction work on 15 golf courses, both new and established.

Works include 60 USGA specification greens 50 Tee Complexes. Cultivated and seeded approximately 30 fairways. Designed and constructed drainage systems for all the above. Bunker construction,
conventional and re-vetted.

I am also competent in setting out projects from architect drawings.


July 1994 SELF EMPLOYED HORTICULTURAL CONTRACTOR


September 1992 DEPUTY COURSE MANAGER
Mill Hill Golf Club


April 1984 DEPUTY HEAD GREENKEEPER
Welwyn Garden City Golf Club
Manicotts, Welwyn Garden City, Herts.

On my initial appointment I started as a Trainee Greenkeeper and was promoted through structure until I achieved the above position in March 1990.
 

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

September 1999 - Word Processing
8 Week Course (Evening Classes) in Computer Studies

August 1993 & March 1999 St John Ambulance-
Appointed person in emergency aid in the Workplace as recommended by the Health & Safety Executive valid for 3 years.

June 1993 City & Guilds Phase 4 Business Management
Amenity Horticulture, Course Assessment, Written Component - Credit

March 1993 Passed PA2A Pesticide application test in the use of ground Crop sprayers after 3 days instruction by John Allbutt Associates.
Attended Foundation Module in Pesticide Training. Passed PA1A certificate of competence in the use of pesticides 12.8.91.

January 1993 Attended the 5 day Bigga BTME in Harrogate.

January 1992 Attended Bigga BTME in Harrogate which included a 2 day Bigga Advance Management Course entitled "Greenkeeper To Course Manager", and all aspects of greenkeeping.

November 1991 Five evening sessions in the practice or ArcWelding.

November 1990 Five day Bigga approved Management Course at Bigga
Headquarters, Aldwark Manor, York.

October 1989 Attended a 5 day course of instruction in the Science and Practice of Turf Culture at the Sports Turf Research Institute, Bingley, West Yorkshire.

June 1989 Certificate of Commercial Horticultural, Phase Two
Years Two & Three Greenkeeping & Sports Turf Management - Distinction.

June 1987 City & Guilds Certificate of General Horticulture Phase One - Distinction.

September 1983 - March 1984 De Havilland College of Further Education, Hatfield, Herts.

September 1978 - July 1983 Sir Frederic Osborn School, Herns Lane, Welwyn Garden City, Herts.
 

REFERENCE: ON REQUEST

USGA Specification green under construction


USGA Specification green complex



USGA Specification green complex "grown in"