CHRIS Buckle has joined the E-z-go sales team at Ipswich-based grounds maintenance machines manufacturer Ransomes Jacobsen. Both are Textron Inc companies.

CHRIS Buckle has joined the E-z-go sales team at Ipswich-based grounds maintenance machines manufacturer Ransomes Jacobsen. Both are Textron Inc companies.

He will report to Rupert Price, sales manager UK and Ireland and be responsible for golf car sales and territory development in the south of England and Wales.

He joins following a 13 year career with a family-owned power tools distributor in Dorset, starting out as a sales manager with responsibility for its showroom operation and major grounds care franchises and progressing to responsibility for sales of a rival golf car manufacturer as the franchise development manager in the south west of England.

Mr Price said they were “delighted” to welcome him to the business.

“He comes with a wealth of experience in the golf car sector and his sales and technical knowledge will prove to be a positive asset going forward,” he said.

Mr Price lives in Christchurch with wife Katherine and children Chloe and Oliver. He is trying to reduce his handicap on the golf course from 15 down to single figures, and his father, Mike, is head greenkeeper at Highcliffe Castle Golf Club.