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Me & My Job: Jon Proffitt, southern regional sales manager, The Grass Group

19 Feb 2010

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Me & My Job: Sandy Pentecost, technical sales rep, British Seed Houses

06 Nov 2009

How did you get started? I started my career as an apprentice greenkeeper in 1989 at a local golf club. From there I progressed to course manager at another local club before leaving greenkeeping to start my own business in 2002 maintaining golf and winter sports. In 2005 I took on my first sales...

How I Got Started: Reece Watson, assistant groundsman, Emirates Stadium

30 Oct 2009

How did you get started? During school holidays I helped out one of my neighbours doing landscaping and then, when I left school, I went to work for him full time. He used to be a bowling-green groundsman and he got me interested in turf. Then I got a match-day job with Arsenal FC at Highbury football...

Me & My Job: Jeff Williams, managing director, GreenThumb

31 Jul 2009

How did you get started? I used to work for a corporate bank, so that was nothing to do with gardening. A friend of mine had a lawn-care business and asked me to start franchising for him. I joined on the sales side in 1995 at the only branch office we had. Now GreenThumb has 189 branches so it's quite...

Me & My Job: Paul Eccles, corporate supervisor, Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council

05 Jun 2009

How did you get started? Originally, I worked at Pontin's holiday camps for a few years. Then I moved back to London before moving north. I got a job working on the gardens for the council and then in 1999 I got this job. What does your typical day involve? Every day is different but generally...

Me & My job - Chris Lane, turf apprentice, Wolverhampton Wanderers FC

13 Mar 2009

- How did you get into horticulture? I'd always wanted to get into horticulture so applied to do an apprenticeship in sports turf. I needed a full-time placement so applied to lots of cricket grounds and golf courses but there weren't many vacancies. Then I wrote to Wolves, the team I support. Two...

Martin Ford, fine-turf manager, Institute of Groundsmanship

31 Jul 2008

How did you break into the industry? I joined as a parks apprentice many years ago in Bristol. I went into it because I liked being outdoors and I was interested in plants. I soon realised it meant working outdoors in all sorts of winds and weathers, getting up early in the morning and hard physical...

Richard Charleton, product manager, John Deere

14 Feb 2008

John Deere has appointed Richard Charleton as product manager for the commercial, golf and turf equipment range. Charleton has been territory manager for Scotland and the north of England since 1996. Former John Deere management trainee Henry Bredin will fill Charleton s previous role.

Michael Wannell, assistant greenkeeper, Bovey Castle Golf Club, Devon

28 May 2007