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Established in 1998, GOLFSelect has grown to become Australia's
leading corporate golf and golf
holiday organiser, offering unrivalled access to Australia's
best golf courses.
GOLFSelect organises corporate
golf events throughout Australia and New Zealand and count
amongst our clients many of Australia's largest and most respected
companies. We also specialise in organising charity golf events
for major Australian charities, such as the Heart Foundation,
Southern Health, and the Mental Illness Fellowship.
GOLFSelect is also a golf holiday specialist.
Our relationships with Australia's best golf courses, plus our
extensive international network of golf travel partners, allows
us to organise unique and never-to-be-forgotten golf holidays
both within and outside Australia.
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Key Personnel
GOLFSelect is made up of a highly energetic team that is dedicated
to being your service provider of choice for corporate golf and
golf travel.
Gary Lisbon (Managing Director and Owner)
Gary is the owner and managing director of GOLFSelect. A chartered
accountant by profession, Gary worked as a financial controller
at a large Australian corporation before being approached to
join with Ian Baker-Finch and Steven Bann in the Pure Golf
Academy.
During his time at Pure Golf, Gary saw the opportunity to
offer big business a more substantial and quality focused product
offering relating to corporate golf both in terms of supply
of product and event management of corporate events.
Gary's other passion is golf
course photography and he is gaining a well deserved
reputation for producing quality images of many of Australia's
top golf courses. The GOLFSelect wallpaper
series features one of Gary's images each week and is
a very popular part of the website. Also a dedicated website located at www.golfphotos.com.au provides more information about Gary's photography.
Gary has also been fortunate enough to play many of the world's
top 100 golf courses (and in fact is slowly nearing his
goal of playing all 100) and loves showcasing the great courses
of Australia to overseas visitors. The golf travel business
within GOLFSelect has added a new dimension to this fast
growing business.
Read
an article on Gary Lisbon (opens new window).
Matthew Ridge (Golf Travel Manager)
Matthew heads up our golf travel division and handles enquiries
from all parts of the world.
Arranging access to the most private of golf courses is one
of Matthew's special skills, as is putting together an impossible
itinerary to incorporate all of a client's needs.
Matthew also assists us on corporate golf days. A key part
of our team, Matthew facilitates on-course activities for each
golf day. Matthew is a very keen golfer with a current increasing
handicap of 14 (because we make him work too hard).
Katherine Rowles (Corporate Golf)
Katherine (likes to be known as Kat) is our newest addition to the GOLFSelect team and we
welcome her onboard. Kat's primary role is doing all the
behind the scenes work in preparation for our golf days to
make sure all our golf days run smoothly. Kat has recently completed a diploma in events management and was the top student in her class. She brings with her a wealth of experience, an enthusiastic attitude and good sense of humour.
Maureen Lisbon (Financial Controller)
Maureen is our Financial Controller and oversees everything
from a financial point of view.
Maureen has a wide range of experience in many different areas
having worked for a number of major financial and accounting
institutions and her wealth of accounting experience ensures
that the GOLFSelect books are in order at all times.
Emma Beauclerc (Queensland Consultant)
Emma is a former Girl Champion of the Greg Norman Junior Golf
Foundation and has 8 years experience within the golfing industry.
Emma has worked at many of the top Gold Coast resort courses
and has done the lot – golf cart staff, golf and sport
administrator, corporate golf organiser, and for the past 5
years has coordinated golfing and sporting adventure tours.
Emma knows the golfing industry inside out. She currently plays
off a handicap of 12 but assures us that this year it will
be down to 8. Emma loves to talk footy, be it AFL or NRL (the
Roosters are her favourite), and plays golf, touch footy, netball,
and any other sport she can get her hands on.
Tim O'Brien (Internet Consultant)
Tim is a principal consultant with Web
Strategy Resources, one of Australia'a leading Internet
consulting companies. Tim has 18 years’ diverse
industry experience, with a strong focus on the strategic
use of information technology. He is the author or co-author
of several books, including Exploiting
the Internet: a practical guide for growing enterprises (2004).
Tim is assisting us to achieve our aim of becoming the most
comprehensive and user-friendly golf website in Australia.
GOLFSelect also works very closely with the team at Harvey
World Travel Carnegie who provide us with expert travel advice,
wonderful service, and some great travel deals to help you
get to these exotic destinations we love telling you about!
Janet Massie (Harvey World Travel Carnegie)
Janet opened Harvey World Travel (Carnegie) in 1985 and has
been in the travel industry for 30 years. Prior to this time
Janet lived and did tour guiding in Europe for 4 years. Janet's
specialty is tour groups and tailor made itineraries.
When GOLFSelect looked for a travel partner we were instantly
drawn to Janet and her team as they clearly showed a wealth
of experience in the travel industry and professionalism ensuring
that you, our clients, are treated in the way that you would
expect.
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