Duck lands illustrious role at Lindrick
Scarborough man Jonathan Duck, has landed the dream job within the game of golf that he has inherently loved for over 40 years.
Duck (pictured) succeeding through a selection process of interviews for the secretary manager post at the prestigious Yorkshire and former Ryder Cup venue Lindrick Golf Club, located between Sheffield and Worksop.
Duck, whose family have been involved in local sport for decades and who are particularly synomymous with golf, joined North Cliff Golf Club, as his father and grandfather had many years before, in 1979, following what seemed years on the long waiting list of the day.
Although playing most sports, he played football for West Pier, Duck was bitten by the charms of the game of golf and was made junior captain during 1986/87 through Phil Woodcock’s junior programme at the club.
What is most amazing is although Duck moved away to work for TSB Lloyd’s in 1993, where he was branch manager for 25 years, is the fact that he has retained a mid-single figure handicap despite only managing to get back to play in maybe only three or four competitions a season.
Duck has almost mirrored a similar working pattern to his father Clive, a former North Cliff Club Champion, who followed working for 40 years in local government finance before taking over the reins as Filey Golf Club secretary for a period.
Duck’s sister Joanne is also the current North Cliff Club’s secretary manager.
He always stated that “it would have to be a dream job for him to be tempted away from the bank and a change of career”, and so it proved.
There is no doubt that Lindrick is one of the sought after secretary manager posts in the country at a club that boasts many big players such as Lee Westwood, Danny Willett and Matthew Fitzpatrick, all of whom are hot property in major tournaments. The course has been chosen as the venue for the 2022 English Amateur, so he will hit the ground running with all the build up to this in a new career which will begin officially on April 27.