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Fancy working at Scotland’s most secretive golf…

Fancy working at Scotland's most secretive golf…

Are you a greenkeeper looking for a new challenge? If so, we’ve got the job for you…

gWest, the uber-private course located adjacent to Gleneagles, is advertising for a new greenkeeper.

The gig pays between £23,000 and £25,000 per year and the ideal candidate will need to be qualified to minimum SVQ level II or equivalent.

They’ll also need to be good with working in often-challenging weather conditions.

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However, it’s the opportunity to make one of Scotland’s most fascinating but secretive golf destinations your workplace that is the big-selling point.

First unveiled in 2007, gWest is owned by the Al-Tajir family – of Highland Spring fame – and was originally intended to occupy more than 620 acres of the countryside, and extend 2.3 miles from east to west.

The
grand centerpiece of it, an 18-hole championship golf course – built
for the use and pleasure of the estate’s property owners and their
guests, and designed by Scottish course architect David McLay-Kidd – was
completed in 2009.

An elaborate clubhouse, built in the style of Mereworth Castle,
a Grade I listed Palladian country house in Kent, designed by 18th
century Scottish architect Colen Campbell and also owned by the Al-Tajir
family, was finished in 2012.

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However, further development stalled as a…

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