If Anthony Mocklow has his way then 2010 will be a big year for golf at Riddell's Bay and the Fairmont Southampton.

The new Director of Golf for the two facilities, Mocklow is only two weeks into his new role but already has some big plans for the next six months, chief among them is to utilise the fact that one of Bermuda's best hotels now has a proper 18-hole golf course at its disposal.

Linking up with Riddell's Bay gives Fairmont access to a course that could quite easily host a tournament of a size that matches Mocklow's dreams.

"The Fairmont Southampton and Riddell's Bay Golf and Country Club have tremendous golf facilities and the hotel has the Island's only only 18-hole, par-three course, our plan is to make full use of them," said Mocklow.

"We'd like to bring world-class events to Bermuda, perhaps as early as spring next year, and we will pursue new golf events, including celebrity shoot-outs and major international college golf tournaments.

"In the grand scheme of things, there are lots of big events that require this type of facility and we want to make sure we are being considered for those. I think there are some events which we are going to bring in that are going to get everyone's attention, and 2010 is going to be very exciting."

However, first, the new director of golf needs to change the perception that the Fairmont's executive course is nothing more than a glorified pitch and putt, ill suited to attracting the type of golfers he obviously has in mind.

"Perception has always been that the Fairmont executive course is like that, there's no secret about it," said Mocklow. "We have to change the perception here. I'd take any player in Bermuda, I don't care who you are, and I'll bet the (score) card against them, and they'll struggle. I played here three days after I arrived with a tour professional and he could only manage one-under.

"Come here and shoot five-under par, then we'll talk about if it's a bad golf course. People come, and from the best to the worst, no-one turns this place over."

It's not just bringing golfers in from abroad that Mocklow wants to concentrate on, junior golf holds a special place in the Bermudians plans for the future.

"We've got junior golf programmes here that we need to re-build, and we have a facility that is under utilised. It's like building a 100,000 seater stadium and only having 20,000 fans," he said.

"I started my golf career here as a ten-year old, and we are going to be doing a lot of fun things here. We've got a big plan of improvements that we have already drafted up, and we are going to turn it into a really world class facility and make people pay attention. Port Royal did it, why can't we improve this golf course?"