Welcome,

For a few years golf courses have been not only my passion but 'a way of life', so to say. At the start of my adventure with golf - by pure chance, as it often happens - I would never suppose that a prosaic earning a living can be so emotionally related to some kind of life philosophy - sometimes called ' the way of life' (as I've already mentioned before).

After long years of work in this branch, there has come the right time for a new challenge, which is my own advisory firm GREEN CONSULT. Golf as a sports discipline and a way of spending free time has been developing very dynamically for the last few years, and that can be observed both in Poland and central Europe. I would like to use my experience and knowledge which I have gained on golf courses, schools and universities abroad, and make a proper use of it when it comes to this quite young branch in Poland.

Knowing the requirements of both taking care and management of golf courses, as well as the realities and specificity of the Polish market, I think that I do know how to achieve the best results bearing in mind the budget. It applies both to the process of creating a new course and its management as well as changes related to existing objects.

If you treat golf and golf courses, the variety of their style and beauty as a specific value I suppose that we've already found a common language. Looking forward to contacts and cooperation.

Best regards,
Krzysztof (Kris) Drab

CV:
Date of birth: 22.10.1962
Family status: married, 1 child

Education:
1981-1987 -Agriculture Academy in Cracow, Faculty of Gardening;
graduated master engineer diplom no.18270
1993-1994 -Greenkeeper School in Warth, Austria,
1998 -University of Massachusetts Winter School for Turf Manager,
Amherst MA, USA

Work experience:
1988-1989 -Instructor for Garden production WSO Czestochowa, Poland
1989-1992 -Planing and cultivating gardens in landscape company "Hobbygarten" Modling, Austria
1992-2003 -Golf & Country Club Brunn, Austria
V 1992 - IX 1992 -Clubhouse gardener
X 1992 - V 1997 -Assistant Headgreenkeeper
V 1997 - 2003 -Golf Course Superintendent/Headgreenkeeper
2003- 2004 - Project Manager Golf Course Konopiska GC ROSA
Czestochowa, Poland
2005 - present - GREEN CONSULT selfemployed owner

Membership :
IGO - Austria Greenkeeper Association - since 1993.
GSCAA - Golf Course Superintendent Association of America - since 2000.
PSG - Polish Greenkeeper Association - since 2004.

References:
Available on request by all previous employers,
Mel B.Lucas -ex-president GCSAA, NYSTA, director Golf Collector Society,
now Links Counsellor; USA
Stanley J. Zontek - director Green Section USGA; USA
Robert Mom - Rain Bird technician in Austria ; award 2004 in San Diego
Dip.Ing. W. Zehetbauer - owner Zehetbauer Fertiggrass Austria