RICHARD HALLS

• Daily maintenance of 27 hole golf complex budget staff organization. Voted Golf Digest N0.59 in the World 
  
• Tournament preparation for several Asian Tour and European Tour Golf Tournaments. 
  
• Design and Construction of new 9 holes at Black Mountain 
• Head of technical and property service teams maintaining all infrastructure services for Club House and Member Villas (water treatment, wast water treatment, pumping, pool maintenance, gardening and landscaping,  lighting, electrical. 
• Overseeing all new infrastructure projects, roads, drainage, cut / fill, high voltage power, low voltage power, metering.
• 1st Runner Up Best Course Manager Asia Pacific Asian Golf Monthly Awards 2018 
• Re-Design and Implementation of new holes and all new Greens at the Hills Golf Course in Sweden after acquisition by Black Mountain Group and consulting leading up to the Nordea Masters European Tour 2018 

General Manager for many assorted sports turf design, construction and renovation Projects throughout Asia completed by Links Golf Services

• Construction Manager at Grand Phnom Pneh Golf Cambodia a Nicklus Design 18 hole golf course. 
• Construction Manager My Ozone Golf Thailand. 
• General day to day operations manager of Links Golf Services over a 5 year period completing onsite work and consulting in several country's around Asia 
• Dalat @ 1200 Golf Club Monthly Construction Management Vietnam
• Oxford Golf Club Pune India monthly site visits for maintenance consulting. 
• Black Mountain Golf Club Thailand weekly consulting for maintenance and special events (tournaments)   

Member of the golf course design and construction team at Queens Valley Golf Course from shortly after land acquisition throughout the design and construction, grow-in and first 2 years of maintenance at the now Black Mountain Golf Course Hua Hin Thailand. 

• Design implementation with survey teams and detailed site set out and color coding
• Operation of Heavy Equipment used for cut-fill and fine shaping of the golf course. 
• Installation of main line and branch line drainage systems. 
• Overseeing irrigation supply and installation. 
• Assisting engineering teams with water storage lakes and capacity requirements based on turf water consumption in Asia  
• Team Leader Grassing and Grow-In 
• Fertilizer, watering and cutting programs written and implemented for sustainable turf maintenance practices.  

Beginning as a labor assistant during irrigation installation at a local golf course I was soon offered an apprenticeship with the well known Australian Landscape and Golf Course Construction Company Densal. During my apprenticeship and the following 2 years as groundsman worked on many golf course, landscape and maintenance projects in Melbourne and across Victoria. It was a very wide ranging apprenticeship providing me with a more unique range of experience than most other Sports Turf apprenticeships which are generally  completed at a single work site  (Golf Course, Race Track, Football Field or Bowling Green)

•  Machine Operation of all types (excavators, bulldozers, trucks, skid steer loaders, tractors, all types of turf mowing equipment)
• Assistant fine shaper Nicklaus Signature Design The Heritage Golf Club Yarra Valley Melbourne 
• Spray -Tech operator The Heritage Golf Club Yarra Valley (application of all fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, growth regulators)