Stewart Naugler: The Story He’s Never Told| The RADcast #1

So let's go back, 'cause this is fun now.

'Cause we know a lot about each other.

But so you're like, "Okay, I meet these girls.

I wanna go work on the golf course." But like, that, how does that turn into a superintendent's job?

I every single day fell in love with it, I guess.

And it was a really interesting journey working at a place that I did, uh, Oliver's Nest Golf Club in, um, Ontario, Canada, where my first year there was a superintendent and an assistant, but then the next year, that superintendent had moved on.

He had been there since grow-in and, and now had ...

As he was leaving.

And so there was kind of like this opening for an assistant that never got filled 'cause the club was ...

It was just a bad time in golf then.

Um, and so fast-forward, next year, that superintendent leaves as well for another job, and they don't have anybody.

So a guy came in who was an irrigation consultant as well, and designer, as well as a, uh, arborist.

And so he used to be a superintendent.

He was at that club as an assistant a long time ago, popped in with his new business, and ended up, uh, you know, becoming the consulting superintendent because they really, again-

Oh, sure

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the finances, you know, made it easier to have somebody there who could consult, and he just took me under his wing and said, "Hey, let's, let's go.

Let's learn how to deal with this irrigation system.

Let's deal ...

Let's, let's learn how to spray.

Let's learn all of the important things.

How to set reels, how to, you know, how a golf course works.

Let's get into it." And it was-

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