IT was a Tiger Woods-inspired love of golf that convinced Melbourne-native Naomi to uproot her family from their Victorian home to pursue a life in Queensland.
And Ms McIntosh and her husband are now well on their way to a hole in one.
As a former retail assistant, Ms McIntosh fell into golf after her personal trainer challenged her to a game.
“I was hooked,” she says.
“That was five years ago in Melbourne and now we live in Queensland and own three golf stores.”
Preoccupied with the putting green Ms McIntosh landed herself a job as an assistant in a Victorian Drummond’s Golf store and after 18 months on the job knew she wanted to open her own.
“The Melbourne market was already saturated, so we had the chance to move to Queensland to open one here and we took it,” she says.
“It has been like a seachange for us, but instead of the ocean we now live on a golf course.”
The Drummond franchise began in Bendigo in 1974, when golfing nut Ray Drummond established Ray Drummond Golf shops servicing the local golf community.
Today, Drummond Golf is Australia’s largest off-course golf retailer with 33 stores in all the mainland states and territories throughout Australia.
The McIntosh family self-funded their start in the franchise business, with the average Drummond franchise costing $500,000 to $600,000 in metropolitan areas and $400,000 to $500,000 in regional areas.
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