Golf job opportunity at Aberdeen's Deeside Golf Club

Frank Coutts looking for a

new assistant to replace

Nick Reid ... and it

doesn't have to be a male!

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Deeside Golf Club's Director of Golf, Frank Coutts, is looking for a successor to his long-serving assistant Nick Reid who is leaving at the end of January.

Nick's successor can be male or female, says Frank whose pro's shop is ideally sited at the entrance to the splendid clubhouse which was opened by The Duke of York.

"The person, either gender, I am looking for can be a qualified assistant or a trainee or someone who wants to undergo PGA training with me, preferrably a competent golfer with a low handicap," says Frank who was himself a member of the private club on the western outskirts of Aberdeen before he turned professional, having been capped for Scotland and getting to the verge of Walker Cup status.

"I would be looking for him or her to start work with me in early February or by arrangement."

Nick Reid (pictured above by Cal Carson Golf Agency) has been Frank's assistant for nine years and became fully PGA qualified in November 2007.

"Nick wants to try playing full-time on the Tartan Tour and he has a sponsor, the John Lawrie Group. He will be hoping to compete in all the SPGA Order of Merit events in 2009 and I am sure he will become a better player with the challenge of playing full time," says Coutts.

"He joined me as a junior member of Newmachar Golf Club in 1999 and was a member of their Junior Pennant League-winning team."

Nick Reid was a winner on the North-east Golfers' Alliance winter circuit last year.

Anyone interested in working with Frank Coutts can contact him at Deeside Golf Club (01224 861041).

+There is certainly no barrier to females entering golf as a profession in the North-east of Scotland. Muriel Thomson has been Portlethen Golf Club's first and only pro since she retired in the early 1990s from the tournament circuit which became the Ladies European Tour. Former Aberdeenshire women's champion Katy Thomson recently transferred from the Aspire Golf Centre, where she began her PGA training, to the King's Links Golf Centre, Aberdeen.