Why is there a growing crisis in golf club staffing?

GCMA chief executive Tom Brooke and BIGGA CEO Jim Croxton joined a ChairNetwork webinar to talk about the ongoing recruitment issues in the industry...

It was a figure that should have shocked everyone in the sport. A third of greenkeepers said they were looking for work outside of golf.

Imagine if that happens – our courses would very quickly look very different. But the problem of recruitment remains very real.

At BTME back in March, GCMA chief executive Tom Brooke and BIGGA CEO Jim Croxton were part of a panel discussion revealing the depths of the crisis, with Tom saying the association was seeing double the number of vacancies for golf club managers than before the pandemic....