ANOTHER graduate of Bermuda Junior Golf Association's ever-productive programme is now forging a career out of the game.

Young Scott Roy joined the staff at Riddell's Bay this week, and fittingly it will be some of the youngsters now involved in that same BJGA programme who the 22-year-old Bermudian will be focusing on during coming months.

Roy will work at the Warwick club as assistant to head professional Alex Madeiros, who himself only came on board late last year after relinquishing his top post at Belmont Hills.

Between them, while taking care of the day to day golf shop business, the pair will be putting much of their efforts into nurturing the Island's young talent.

While with the BJGA, Roy worked his weekends and holidays for several years at the Fairmont Southampton Princess before joining the hotel club full-time last January.

In between he picked up a business degree in management and marketing at St. Mary's in Halifax, Nova Scotia before transferring to the warmer climes of Florida where he furthered his golfing education at the Golf Academy of the South in Orlando.

Now, he says, he's ready for a new challenge.

"I think Riddell's Bay is going to be a good change," said Roy, who officially joined the club on Tuesday of this week.

"The emphasis is going to be on the juniors. As a junior golfer myself, I knew what was expected of the programme, so I have some idea of what they're looking for here. I had a lot of opportunities while in Orlando to do junior clinics and at the Fairmont as well.

"This is a step up for me. It means a slightly different approach from what I've been doing, this being a private club compared to mostly tourists who I was dealing with at the Fairmont."

Madeiros, meanwhile, believes he's got the right man for the job.

"Scott's been over there (Princess) for about nine years. He started at a very young age and I think already he shows a lot of experience," commented the head pro.

"I couldn't be more pleased, I think he'll be a great addition to Riddell's Bay.

"He's going to be producing a junior clinic, he'll be involved in the golf shop, inventory control and merchandising . . . tournaments for everybody, juniors, men's and ladies, and all the day to day duties a club professional would be expected to do.

"His arrival is going to be a huge help for me. I've been the only one involved in the golf operation so it's been kind of difficult to do the things that I need to get done to promote the golf programme and promote the club corporately."

But it's with the younger age group that Madeiros sees his new assistant making a most significant contribution.

"We are certainly working on a junior programme. I don't want to go into the specifics too much at this time, but what I can say is it's going to be exciting to the point where I think we'll be the only club in Bermuda to have such a programme," said Madeiros.

"That is certainly going to be an area of concentration for me and Scott. We'll be heavily involved with the juniors ? members and their children. We're very excited about it."

While some openly questioned Madeiros' move to Riddell's Bay last year, just months after Belmont Hills underwent a massive re-design project and took on the most complete staff of any of the Island's clubs, he says he has no regrets.

"I am absolutely loving it and I can say that in all honesty. This is what I should be doing as a golf professional, it's what everybody should experience as a golf professional, members have been receptive, a team is being built here, and we are sorting through a lot of the things that need to be changed, and we're changing them.

"We're changing the golf professional's involvement with the members, we're organising their tournaments and we're with them pretty much as a support group, getting involved with the ladies and then eventually the seniors. Then there's the look of the golf shop, that's something we're working on which is a major project."

As for more pros joining the staff in the future, Madeiros says there are no plans at this time.

"We'll do what we can with what we have and hopefully one day we'll get to the point where we'll get so busy that we can become a training ground for potential professionals. That's what I'd like to see.

"I just don't have any regrets about leaving Belmont. I'm loving the new challenge."