Bradley, now 57, can see the similarity, but that in itself becomes a head-scratcher to the man who has just celebrated his 30-year anniversary as superintendent at Curlewis Golf Club on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula.
“He looks like he’s 12 to me, so it makes me wonder how the hell they ever entrusted this club to me when I looked like he does all those years ago,” Bradley jokes in his classic self-deprecating style.
No doubt Bob McDougall and his Curlewis recruiting team took a punt on the young Kiwi who’d only been in Australia for five years when he was given the keys to what was very much a “country club” in 1993.
But while Bradley’s formal resume perhaps looked a little light when he accepted the role, his background gave him a knowledge beyond his years.
His father, Bob, is a life member of the New Zealand Golf Course…