Q Golf - Official online magazine for Golf Queensland Autumn 2014 | Page 18

John Jnr
becomes first third-generation club Pro
By Tony Durkin
Despite recently joining the extremely competitive part
of the golf industry that includes small-business retailing,
John Victorsen Junior has displayed an enthusiasm and
sentiment for his trade that is sure to make him a winner.

While at Royal Queensland (RQ) John was the head
teaching professional for the Queensland Junior
Development Squad which regularly included more than
100 junior players from five to 16 years-of-age.

On the day he started as club professional as Wantima
Country Club in Brisbane’s north, the 31-year-old
passionately tweeted: ‘can’t wait to get started. Lifelong
dream achieved. Thank you for the opportunity’.

But it is his work ethic and absolute passion for the game
of golf that his dad says will make John Jnr an outstanding
success as the club pro at Wantima.

And two days earlier he had posted: ‘happy 95th birthday
to grandad Arnold Victorsen. Missing you more and more
every day, great man’.
The irony of this tweet was that on the day John Jnr joined
Wantima, a Queensland golf landmark was established.
He had become the first third-generation club golf
professional in the state, joining his late grandfather who
served 32 years at Townsville Golf Club, and his father
John, 35 years at Buderim’s Headland Golf Club.
“I’m here for the long haul,” says John Jnr, who graduated
through the Australian PGA Academy of Golf at the end
of 2004. “And I’m keen to set the family benchmark, so
with dad still at Headland showing no signs of retiring I will
obviously be at Wantima for a long, long time.”

“In the interview for the job he was asked why, after being
at Headland, RQ and Pacific, he was keen to join a small
club like Wantima,” his dad reflected.
“He told them that his early recollection of Headland was
of a struggling, developing club, and he wanted to be part
of the team that helps make Wanti XH