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Nathan Gilpin

General Manager of Perranporth Golf Club in Cornwall and former PGA professional, England Golf championship manager and Ladies European Tour referee.

Oct 19, 2026

29:58
What was the blueprint you outlined to them and what were they specifically looking for from a new leader at Perenport?
30:06
I know obviously they needed to grow and they needed to put a plan in place.
30:12
That was something that was very, very clear.
30:17
It's a golf course that wasn't well known unless you knew it.
30:23
It was kind of undersold, undervalued.
30:28
And that was something that we wanted to quickly change.
30:33
And it was like the first thing I said, and I said this within both of my interviews, the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to change your website.

16 MINS LATER

46:18
How did, how did your refereeing come about? So obviously when I started the
59:05
Yeah.
59:06
And for many years, the accommodation was known as kind of being the thing that kept the club going.
59:12
Um, and there's n- you only need to read the, the club's book, which, yes, you can go and r- get a copy of in the shop for, for no money 'cause we've got loads of them, and we're, we're happy to just kind of share the story.
59:25
But the club has had many, many times of financial difficulty, and I think, I think three times it pretty much went bust.
59:34
Um, and basically Covid, from what I, from what I've been told, kind of enabled the club to survive, as well as a, a sale, a sale of a plot of land, um, to build a rather nice house on it.
59:51
And that was in and around 18, 19, 20, 21, through Covid.
59:58
Um, obviously golf was, golf was on a boom.

14 MINS LATER

74:20
Nice.

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