Golf club boss made sexual remarks to teen girl

A GOLF club boss from Glenrothes who told a teenager that players would not be able to keep their eyes off her chest under her muddy jumper has been given unpaid work by a court.

James Naylor, 38, who was the course manager and head greenkeeper at Alloa Golf Club, also remarked on the young female employee’s bottom.

His sexualised patter made her so anxious that she quit her job.

Sheriff Neil Bowie sentenced Naylor to 100 hours’ unpaid work and warned him the order was a direct alternative to custody.

He said: “Whether you thought this was just workplace banter or not, the reality is it wasn’t, because it had a significant effect on this young girl half your age, who ultimately left her employment as a result of your comments, they were making her feel so uncomfortable.”

Prosecutor Karen Chambers previously told Alloa Sheriff Court the girl felt Naylor’s behaviour change in November 2022.

“She felt he was making sexualised comments when working with her on a one-to-one basis. She said that once when they had been out working they’d been in mud, or had been getting wet and he said to her ‘the members won’t be able to stop looking at your boobs since you wiped your hands on your jumper’. He subsequently said to her, ‘your bum looks nice in those trousers’.”

Ms Chambers said the girl was “obviously upset” and concerned the comments were “inappropriate” but did not make a fuss at the time because of her job.

Naylor, a first offender, from Glenrothes pled guilty to communicating indecently by uttering sexualised remarks to the teenager at Alloa Golf Club.

James Naylor, 38.