I was born in Falkirk, Scotland in 1966 and my sport was always snooker. Not good enough to turn professional when I left college with an HND in Mechanical Engineering, I went to work on a commission only basis, in direct sales, selling and training sales people. I continued to play snooker semi-pro until moving [...]
I had the opportunity to make it a career at 16, but decided not to at that time and stopped playing seriously. I found my desire to play again in my mid-forties and was surprised how well I could still play, and soon got down to a 1 handicap and started playing competitive golf and [...]
Martin has been a golf journalist since 1995 when he first covered The Open Championship at St Andrews for both Golf Weekly and also the fledgling American TV station, The Golf Channel. Martin continued to work for several magazines and broadcast outlets as a writer on tournament golf news, the equipment industry, travel features and [...]
Why did you become a Teaching Professional? It was more of a necessity than anything else. We wanted to promote golf to beginners and weren’t getting much response from PGA Professionals to take up a self-employed coaching role at the Club. We believed there was enough interest for such a role and I decided to [...]
Betty was born in Ecclesfield, a small village outside Sheffield, South Yorkshire. She says, “This is where I grew up with my parents and older brother. My brother is the reason why I am so competitive. My athletics days ended in 1992, immediately after the Barcelona Olympics. Injuries prevented me going on to achieve future goals [...]
Shane says, “I was a very aggressive player at that age. I broke my dad’s pitching wedge around a tree at the age of 8! I love the game of golf as it has so many challenges and I get my thrill out of teaching all sorts of players from beginners to scratch players.” You [...]
Frank was born in Hawick, in the Scottish Borders in 1955 and still lives there with his wife Lorraine who he has been married to for 17 years. Frank is a full time teaching professional and professional club maker. He learned to play golf at the age of 11 at Hawick Golf Club whose membership fee was [...]
EGTF Teaching Professional, Devlyn Fraser started playing golf at the age of 11, in 1967. Devlyn says, ‘My father was a keen golfer and we lived near a new golf course (Glendower CC), near Johannesburg. When I moved to Durban in 1976, I started playing golf seriously and from 1977 until 2002 played Scratch League [...]
He made his living from the IT business from 1981 as a system engineer and project manager. Jan became interested in golf at the age of 42. He found the movement of the lower body was very similar to the stroke in karate and it was easy to find the swing naturally. The season in Norway is very short [...]
Willie was born in Aberdeenshire, N E Scotland and moved back to Dornoch when he was 5 and learned to play golf. Willie says, “It was here I became obsessed with golf and now 44 years later am still the same. According to my wife, I eat, sleep and breathe golf. I am married with [...]
