The Sandhurst Membership boasts two championship golf programs, a clubhouse which is a well-liked hospitality area and a housing property with 4000 stakeholders.
IF you’ll pardon the pun, Sandhurst Property’s CEO, Dean Jamieson has by no means been one to let the grass develop beneath his ft.
As a teenager, contemporary out of Mentone Grammar, the place he and Shane Warne had been finest mates rising up, his eyes had been firmly mounted on a cricket profession.
“After we completed faculty, Shane went to St Kilda to play cricket and I performed for South Melbourne.
“We each went very alternative ways after,” Dean says.
However the pair saved in contact over their respective journeys.
“I didn’t have a espresso with him each few weeks or something like that. However we had been finest mates in school and the household invited me to his memorial on the MCG.”
The nice Australian left-hand batsman, Graham Yallop, coached Dean at South Melbourne and organized for him to get a component time job as a curator on the Lakeside Oval. It led him to a job as a greenkeeper at Woodlands a few years in the past.
“I bear in mind John Sloan (legendary Woodlands golf membership supervisor) interviewed me for the job by driving across the course in a cart.”
The Woodlands job piqued additional an curiosity in turf administration and Dean attended Burnley Horticultural School; ran his personal landscaping enterprise after which headed up two enormous firms who specialised in delivering companies in ‘inexperienced areas.’
Shoppers included the Melbourne Racing Membership (dwelling of the Caulfield Cup) GMBH Stadium in Geelong (dwelling of the AFL Geelong Cats), the Latrobe College Grounds and Sporting Facility and Sandhurst Property.
By his early 20’s, Dean, had turned his again on cricket and had began to compete in ironman occasions right here and abroad. He certified and competed within the World Ironman Championships in Hawaii.
Straight out of faculty, Dean had no real interest in research however later, with the assist of the corporate he labored for, accomplished an MBA.
“The three homeowners inspired me and I’m nonetheless mates with them at this time. They had been very supportive,” he says.
It led to him to now having a raft of enterprise and administration {qualifications}. Even now, Dean is halfway by way of a Grasp of Enterprise Psychology. No person can accuse the person of being an beneath achiever.
“I feel the eagerness and self-discipline required for sport have helped me in my enterprise profession,” Dean says.
He had been a member of Sandhurst Golf Membership for 3 years earlier than throwing his hat within the ring for the CEO’s job.
He’s hit the bottom operating since he arrived at Sandhurst lower than six months in the past.
Jamieson has revamped the administration construction and the enterprise mannequin, which is exclusive to the golf business within the sense that it’s not only a golf course and a hospitality area; it’s a housing property with 4000 stakeholders.
Sandhurst CEO Dean Jamieson.
“It’s all based mostly round delivering an excellent membership expertise and delivering for our stakeholders. I’m passionate and pushed about this.
“It’s greater than a golf course. We have now 1813 homes on the property and solely 20 per cent of the homeowners play golf. The board didn’t need a supervisor who sat within the workplace, however somebody who engages with members. I’m a agency believer in that.
“However we have now nice amenities, and we’re taking a look at methods to additional interact all our members.”
A part of that is to run a collection leisure capabilities for the Property one in every of which might be a sportsman’s evening hosted by Sandhurst Ambassadors – ex Check cricketer Damien Flemming and Melbourne footballers Max Gawn and Jake Lever.
“We have now an important area right here for leisure capabilities so why not use it,” Dean says.
Other than the homeowners who play golf, Sandhurst has 1700 golf membership members who don’t stay on website.
There are two nice golf programs – The North and The Champions – designed by the late Peter Thomson and Ross Perrett.
The brand new CEO performs off a good handicap round 12. Nevertheless it’s truthful to say, since taking on the problem of his new put up, he’s enjoying “far much less” golf.
“I’m right here for the lengthy haul and there’s loads of work to do,” he says.
A part of that, consists of bringing the golf programs again to pristine situation.
Clearly Sandhurst’s new man is up for the duty at hand. He has come alongside on the proper time, albeit by a circuitous route, however is eminently certified to ship on each entrance.
