Mike Bush, course manager at St. Mellion Estate In Cornwall, the superintendent of the year was named during the first 59club Global Service Excellence Awards.
The experienced Cornishman defeated Golfbaan superintendents from 22 countries worldwide, on the shortlist to ten nominees, in the very first worldwide prices of 59 club for 300 people during a shimmering ceremony in the new Masters Suite in the Belfry Hotel & Resort near Birmingham, England.
Bush’s Pride and Joy, the world -famous Nicklaus Signature Course in St. Mellion, is one of the most breathtaking golf courses in Europe, and like all superintendent nominees Bush and his team have experienced an intense data -driven assessment period with Mystery Shopping and Benchmarking.
In the latest assessment, their presentation of the Nicklaus Signature Course was measured on the basis of the world’s best golf experiences in Denmark, Ireland, Australia, Canada, England, the US, the VAE and Thailand.
Hometown
St. Mellion achieved an amazing almost perfect score and Bush accepted the prize on behalf of his team. “St. Mellion is in my blood,” he said. “I am a proud Cornishman and grew up in the village of St. Mellion, so I feel a deep personal relationship with the estate here.
“I am so proud to receive such a prestigious prize, and I am very grateful for this rare award, but I see this as much as a victory for my dedicated team and for the glorious St. Mellion landscape that we have cultivated in this corner of Cornwall, because it is a personal performance.”
Bush came to St. Mellion in October 1995 after an early career in the construction of the golf course and then supervised the course for a large number of professional events at the European Tour and Senior Tour. He reached the status of Bigga Master Greenkeeper in 2011 and is still one of the less than 100 people in the world to earn this status to this day.
St. Mellion is the flag shiver for the Crown Golf Group, and in 2014, whose wife Regan also works in the St. Mellion Management team, has expanded his role to become a group manager throughout the collection.
After St. Mellion arrived at 59club in 2022, Bush won the UK & Ireland Superintendent of the Year Awards in 2023 and 2024.
59club sets the performance benchmarks in the industry and celebrates service all over the world -challenging, runs more than 4,000 independent Mystery Shopper visits annually, collects customer experience data from every income flow in the vicinity of a club and helps locations to improve their own standards through a deep analysis of the results of the hundreds of thousands of thousands of thousands of thousands of thousands
On Bush’s Award, 59club -founder and CEO Simon Wordsworth said: “Mike’s performance is proof of his exceptional standards, professionalism and dedication at St. Mellion, one of the world’s leading golf destinations in the world.
“Being recognized as a Global Superintendent of the Year is not a small achievement: it not only reflects the quality of St. Mellion’s play surfaces and the agronomic capacities of Mike, but also Mike’s ability to galvanize his team for exemplary performance day in the day.
30 years of excellence
Jeff Chapman, founder of Crown Golf owners Bangarra Group, said: “The world of international wave is like most global industries in the sense that there is intense competition to be the best, but it does not always recognize the excellent talents that make such huge contributions to the success of sport.
“It is great news that Mike Bush has received this level of global recognition. As the proud owner of the world -famous St. Mellion Estate where Mike the Man, who has been responsible for producing excellent playing conditions for almost 30 years, I take this opportunity on behalf of all those who have been associated with the resort ‘.’ ‘.
“You need a world -class course manager to fully realize the potential of a world -class golf course, and Mike Bush is that man at St. Mellion,” said David Moon, director of Golf on St. Mellion Estate. “He is our own Multi-Star Michelin chef of the Gulf industry, and in the Nicklaus he has his characteristic dish.
“Als collega helpt Mike me consequent om mijn eigen spel op te voeden en in de afgelopen 30 jaar zijn zijn hoogwaardige normen een inspiratie geweest voor alle medewerkers van St. Mellion. Met niet-aflatende toewijding en passie heeft hij niet alleen de wereldberoemde greeplement gekoesterd die Jack Nicklaus voor ons heeft gemaakt, maar hij heeft ook de verhoging van onze tweede cursus, de Kernow-zelf een voormalige Europese tour-locatie-zelf een internationale Tournorm.
“This beautiful Global Award is a good validation of his performance here. Mike gives a radiant example, not only for his team here in this resort, but also for his colleagues in the global wave industry. His work is one of the main reasons why St. Mellion is such an extraordinary rown place to visit.”
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