Marcus Brizio

About the Candidate

 

Marcus Brizio

The Brambles, Outgate, Ambleside, England. LA22 0PU – 07495 191791

D.O.B – 24th December 1996

brizio1224@gmail.com

PGA Membership number – 0163762

Golf has been a passion of mine since I was 13 years old, when a friend of mine took me to Northallerton Golf Course for my first experience playing, I fell in love instantly and the dreams of one day playing professionally began. Now, 15 years later the dreams have come true, and the love of the game is as strong as it has ever been. As my golf career as progressed here at Windermere GC, working with the juniors has become the most fulfilling part of the job, when I started doing my junior coaching sessions, the club had 13 junior members, and a club competition had not been played since 2018. Fast forward to today and the club has just reached 60 members, with 40 being actively playing, and working towards gaining a handicap, with official club competitions returning from the 2026 season.

I like my group coaching sessions to be fun and interactive, ensuring all the kids get the attention they need and practice and gain the skills needed to get out on the course. I have never liked to line up the players and just have them hitting balls while giving some instruction along the way, which I found boring as a junior. Instead, by playing golf-based games, the kids can keep moving, play as a team or an individual against their fellow players, while also learning essential skills that help them develop and grow out onto the golf course.

During my time at Windermere, the development of the junior section has been my greatest achievement, with the course now about to receive the junior hub award from Golf Foundation and England Golf, this is a huge achievement for us. The Golf Foundation representative loved the work I have done, from creating a mini 6 hole course on our practice ground, with which I made scorecards so we could have mini tournaments with juniors ageing from 5 up to 13 years of age, an idea I then took out onto the main course, by redesigning our blue junior golf course, along with their own scorecards, stroke indexes and a route map to aid in finding the new tees. This course is now going to be officially rated ready for the 2026 season. The Golf Foundation have even asked if I could write a piece in the new year for their website to aid other clubs develop their own junior sections in a similar way.

With Windermere Golf Club being my first placement in golf, I have left some of my previous work experience in, to try showcase other skills which I gained through my time working in various hospitality settings.
Experience

febuary 2018 – november 2018
team leader, haven, lakeland leisure park
My second spell with haven, my duties involved taking orders and clearing tables, I also expedited food leaving the kitchen and made sure food quality was up too standard. My main roll was leading the bar team, training any new team members up and ensuring service ran smooth and problem free, during my time in the team leader position in the main restaurant I was tasked with seeing over up to 15 team members both on the bar making drinks and serving food to our guests. Other duties I carried out involved line cleaning, stock taking and money handling.

 

FEBUARY 2019 – OCTOBER 2019

ASSISTANT MANAGER, haven, lakeland leisure park
My third spell with haven but this time in a managerial position, but in the owner’s exclusive restaurant. This year I have more responsibility within the business. My main roles were training our team of eight persons, filling in timesheets and producing rosters, wet stock ordering and stock taking. I always made sure that team morale is high, and that the venue is running smoothly, and targets are being met.

 

 

OCTOBER 2019 – DECEMBER 2021

BAR MANAGER, Boaters Bar Bowness-on-Windermere

Boaters Bar is a craft beer and gin bar located on the shores of lake Windermere in the heart of the Lake District. Here along with a team of other managers I help ensure all aspects of the day to day running goes smoothly.

My daily jobs involve making sure all cask beer is set up with spares ready to go to the highest possible standard, all wine ordering with our speciality wine merchant, spirits including over 40 different gins and 16 craft beer lines, including a craft beer fridge with up to thirty different beers and ciders at any given time. As well as this we also had an extensive cocktail menu, i was tasked with ensuring all house made syrups were made correctly and all purees and mixers were stocked.

Due to our busy summer times my team could grow to twenty personnel, which I was tasked with training appropriately to be able to fulfill their duties, making sure everyone is properly prepared and ready to go for a busy service.

 

JULY 2022 – August 2023

MANAGER, The Whistling Pig

 

I was approached by Northern Monkey Brew Co, the guys behind Boaters Bar to manage their new craft beer bar opening. My duties include all day-to-day responsibility ensuring the business runs as smoothly as possible, these include all stock ordering, advertising, social media activity, interviewing and hiring new staff members and working with the chef to come up with menu and specials daily.

 

August 2023 – Present

Shop Assistant/PGA Trainee, Windermere Golf Club

 

The start of my career in golf, after the best part of a decade in hospitality, my passion for golf finally came good in a new career path. Starting out as the shop assistant, I started my PGA Traineeship in October 2024 and have thoroughly enjoyed my time so far. My role here at Windermere GC has been primarily in the shop, dealing with the day to day running of the shop, from ensuring all golfers are happy and have all information they need, as well as making sure the shop front is tidy and well presented. Outside the shop my role has largely revolved around rebuilding the club’s junior section, which had all but disappeared. Since April 2025, I have also been the primary Pro offering lessons to all our members as well as visitors.

 

Education
October 2024 – present
pga trainee, university of birmingham

july 2014
igcse, st’ andrews international school, bangkok
I was schooled overseas and took the international standard of the GCSE course.

Mathematics – C

Integrated science – CC

English literature – B

English language – B

History – C

P.E – C

Art – C
july 2013
CXC, Bonne terre school, st’ lucia
Geography – level 2 (C)
Skills and qualifications
●       Stock ordering.

●       First aid trained

●       Community Golf Instructor with England Golf

●       PGA Level 1 Activities Coach

●       Safeguarded through UK Coaching

 

●       Rosters and Timesheets.

●       Money handling.