Kent-based PGA professional Andrew Brooks has swapped Maidstone for Bermuda to take up a "dream job" at Port Royal Golf Club.

After 18 months as director of golf at Marriott Tudor Park, the 44-year-old has relocated to the cluster of North Atlantic islands off the east coast of America to oversee the final elements of a £10million redevelopment which, later this year, will see the club hosting the PGA Grand Slam of Golf, at which all four major winners are scheduled to play.

"The Bermuda government own the course and they put together a proposal to rebuild the course and bring it up to date," said Brooks.

"They have done that with 14.5million US dollars (£10million) and we are now at the back end of that.

"They brought me in as director of golf to oversee the launch and put together the infrastructure."

Brooks is no stranger to golf overseas, having previously been IMG director of golf in the Philippines and general manager of Nick Faldo's Ocean Dunes venue in Vietnam.

He has been given an initial two-year contract during which time he hopes to make Port Royal, which the late architect Robert Trent Jones Sr deemed his finest work outside the US, one of the world's top golfing destinations.