"Upon entering the society each member becomes either a Gentleman or a Boy. The member profiles give a insight into the individuals who make up the GBH Golf Society, the characteristics required to become a Gentlemen or Boy and some of the things they most love about golf and the GBH GS."
Description: Enthusiastic and organised golf mad dad who loves to win
Characteristics: Class is Permanent
Interesting Fact: I once became a vegetarian for six months for a bet. ( I don't recommend it!)
Favourite Golf Club: Driver
Favourite Drink: T.E.A. - Traditional English Ale
Suggested Tour Venue: West of Ireland and South Africa
Best Thing About GBH: How so many different personalities get on so well, each bringing their own individual qualities to the society
Other Leisure Pursuits: Coaching future Open Champions, dinosaur hunting, dragon chasing, Doctor Who and the GBH GS - of course!
Favourite Golf Course: Have played - Ballybunion. Would love to play- Pebble Beach/Cypress Point
Alternative Career: The 6th member of Take That!
Champagne Moment: Approach shot to 18th at Nairn with the GBH behind the green, a sizeable crowd looking on and the history of the course in my head. Didn't have to think about club selection just knew the distance and club and hit it just where I wanted it. The fizz went flat for the putt!
Description: Welsh, tidy, slim, thirsty, stealth-like, immature, excitable, focused, Tiger-like, mad-for-it
Characteristics: Immature, crazy, youngish
Interesting Fact: I first got drunk when I was 18 months old
Favourite Golf Club: Pitching Wedge
Favourite Drink: Water (morning after I drink 10 pints of Stella!)
Suggested Tour Venue: East coast of USA
Best Thing About GBH: Camaraderie
Other Leisure Pursuits: Starring at girls, watching rugby, rascalling
Favourite Golf Course: Want to play - Augusta, Have played - Kings Barns
Alternative Career: Fly 'arf for Wales (behind a good pack!)
Champagne Moment: Already scoring two holes in one in my illustrous career
Description: fifteen stone, six foot, thirty eight inch waist, size 10s
Characteristics: Gents Team Full
Interesting Fact: My eye sights so bad I qualify for free eye tests
Favourite Golf Club: Driver - it gives me confidence and control in 1st tee pressure situations!!
Favourite Drink: Staropramen
Suggested Tour Venue: Scotland - any of the Open links venues
Best Thing About GBH: Great spirit and entertainment and flattering handicaps
Other Leisure Pursuits: Endurance running, free climbing, cricket and vacuum drinking
Favourite Golf Course: Sunningdale Old Course
Alternative Career: Professional Darts player - I've already got the gut, just need some talent
Champagne Moment: Holing my second shot at the 12th hole on the Nicklaus Course at St Mellion on GBH v Lawyers
Description: Occasional golfer, full-time alcoholic
Characteristics: Harder Than Gents
Interesting Fact: I slept with that blonde bird off Eldorado
Favourite Golf Club: Driver, because I like walking in the woods
Favourite Drink: Water
Suggested Tour Venue: Texas
Best Thing About GBH: It makes me play golf
Other Leisure Pursuits: Bob skeleton
Favourite Golf Course: La Reserva, Spain
Alternative Career: PE Teacher?
Champagne Moment: Getting 0 points in Inverness!
Description: Crap at golf, but better at drinking and playing !!
Characteristics: Cheeky, chippy, punchy
Interesting Fact: I hate fighting !!
Favourite Golf Club: Driver - because I don't have one so it can't upset me
Favourite Drink: Water or Wine
Suggested Tour Venue: Somewhere without a golf course
Best Thing About GBH: Great bunch of guys who have been together since the beginning
Other Leisure Pursuits: Triathlon / Cycling and general fitness & endurance training, snowboarding, mountain walking
Favourite Golf Course: Sunningdale Old Course
Alternative Career: Ski Bum !!
Champagne Moment: The 2001 tour which I didn't attend !!
Description: Understated, intelligent, competitive, ambitious, stubborn, astute, sporty, laid back... optimistic.. deluded!
Characteristics: Don't wear Tweed
Interesting Fact: I can pick my nose with my tongue!
Favourite Golf Club: Driver, it's a love hate relationship.
Favourite Drink: Pint of Guinness
Suggested Tour Venue: Barbados
Best Thing About GBH: The fact that even though we only meet infrequently everyone is always relaxed, up for a laugh and golf is not the only focus
Other Leisure Pursuits: Cricket, Snowboarding, but at the moment parent seems to be the only one!
Favourite Golf Course: Wentworth
Alternative Career: The Saviour of Welsh rugby, winning the world cup after crushing England in the final
Champagne Moment: The 18th Hole, Rouen tour, all square going down 18th against PJ, overall match in the balance, need to beat PJ to assure boys win for 3rd year in a row. Both hit decent tee shots, although mine a little short. I hit up straight at the green but landed short and in front of large tree 50 yards before the green. Then PJ spanners his second into very dense trees. At which point all the Gents who were sitting by the green dash to the trees and then amazingly the ball is found and with a clear shot to the green. He manages to hit to the side of the green.
So now from thinking I just need to get it on the green to be sure of a win, I now need to put the pressure back on PJ. I then hit a punch 9 iron under the tree to within 6 feet of the pin. The rest is history, the boys win the match!
Description: One of the very few select individuals in life, who start a Gentleman and end a Boy!
Characteristics: Forever Getting Younger
Interesting Fact: Hung like a 'Rogue Bull elephant'!
Favourite Golf Club: Ping G5 Driver - The Beast
Favourite Drink: Ribena
Suggested Tour Venue: Stellenbosch, South Africa - awesome golf, sun and great wine
Best Thing About GBH: Beating Phelpsy
Other Leisure Pursuits: Spud Gun Shooting, Conkers, Tiddly-Winks and International Spoof Champion.
Favourite Golf Course: Kaikora, New Zealand
Alternative Career: David Attenborough's prodigy!
Champagne Moment: Halving with Mrs. Spencer in Gullane, on the 1st tour, when he was playing with Mrs. Jones, when I was 5 down with 5 to play. The comedy of it being his partner made him throw it away due to stress!!!
Description: Tired, Stressed, Over Worked, Under Paid, Sarcastic, Neurotic, Agnostic, Romantic and Optimistic (and all the other adjectives that end in tic) Oh and hilariously funny!?!
Characteristics: Childish, Immature and Pre-Pubescent
Interesting Fact: I had a fight with Alex (The Whirlwind) Higgins in Puerto Banus when I was 16
Favourite Golf Club: 7 Iron
Favourite Drink: Cold Budweiser (from a bottle)
Suggested Tour Venue: South West of England (convenient!!)
Best Thing About GBH: Banter
Other Leisure Pursuits: No all time spent with ever expanding family
Favourite Golf Course: Want to play - Ballybunion (only when I have corrected my killer slice though)
Alternative Career: A recruitment consultant obviously!
Champagne Moment: TBC
Description: A bit like Gordon Ramsay with the good bits taken away
Characteristics: Older, silvery, complicated
Interesting Fact: When I was young I was propositioned by an attractive professional lady while travelling in Africa
Favourite Golf Club: 'Eagle' chipper
Favourite Drink: I do like a nice cup of Earl Grey between 4 and 4.30pm
Suggested Tour Venue: The Glorious Republic of Kazakhstan
Best Thing About GBH: It is the only time everyone stops for an annual photograph
Other Leisure Pursuits: Writing material for my new folk band 'The Tankards'
Favourite Golf Course: The Old Head, Ireland
Alternative Career: A Tug Boat Captain
Champagne Moment: Lifting the GBH Trophy with the Gents 5 times in a row!
Description: The most good looking man on tour
Characteristics: Cool, Calm, Handsome
Interesting Fact: TBC
Favourite Golf Club: Driver
Favourite Drink: Sambouka
Suggested Tour Venue: Moscow
Best Thing About GBH: When Grimey Loses
Other Leisure Pursuits: My Children!
Favourite Golf Course: Have Played - Sunningdale Old Course, Want To Play - Old Head
Alternative Career: Golf Course Architect
Champagne Moment: Everytime I've beaten Grimey
Description: Six foot, Receeding hair, Size 10, Not Married, Under Pressure
Characteristics: Age, Maturity, Commitment
Interesting Fact: My parents thought I was gay as I never took any girls home
Favourite Golf Club: Wedge - It's the only club needed
Favourite Drink: Mohito
Suggested Tour Venue: Scotland provided guaranteed sun and no rain!
Best Thing About GBH: Camaraderie, Tour Banter, Quality of Golf
Other Leisure Pursuits: Car Racing, Mountain Biking, Skiing
Favourite Golf Course: Royal Dornoch
Alternative Career: Racing Car Driver
Champagne Moment: Winning the Top Gun Trophy
Description: Tall, handsome, athletic golfer with a warped sense of humour
Characteristics: Mature, knowledgable and fat
Interesting Fact: I do sometimes work on Fridays
Favourite Golf Club: 3 wood
Favourite Drink: Harveys Sussex Real Ale
Suggested Tour Venue: Seychelles
Best Thing About GBH: 3 nights away from the missus and family with a good bunch of beery lads. Oh yeah and some golf
Other Leisure Pursuits: Shooting, fishing, sailing, riding, cricket, spearfishing, shove ha'penny and nude photography
Favourite Golf Course: Apart from the London Golf centre in Earlsfield which doesn't count as it is only 9 holes I would have to say the West Sussex
Alternative Career: International Slow worm hunter
Champagne Moment: Playing with JM and coming back from 5 down to win against Cotros and Jonesey in Zell am See
Description: Cultured, au courant, erudite, gallant, mannerly, polished, urbane, refined, bon vivant, aesthetic
Characteristics: Mature, sophisticated, literate
Interesting Fact: I once interviewed Terry Wogan
Favourite Golf Club: 6 iron
Favourite Drink: Any 1999 Burgundy Grand Cru
Suggested Tour Venue: Sweden
Best Thing About GBH: As William Blake once said - "The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship"
Other Leisure Pursuits: My Children and Collecting works of art from the period 1890 - 1950
Favourite Golf Course: Have played - Parkstone - Want to play - St Andrews
Alternative Career: Art Dealer
Champagne Moment: Winning the Top Gun Trophy
Description: Competitive & talented sportsman, chiselled looks, slim build...aka the Gamesmaster.
Characteristics: Loves Beating Jonesey
Interesting Fact: Likes to be known as "Longrod"
Favourite Golf Club: The putting wand
Favourite Drink: Tea
Suggested Tour Venue: Las Vegas
Best Thing About GBH: Dalesy's version of 21 - Slider...you stink!!
Other Leisure Pursuits: Looking after 2 fledgling GBH Jnrs
Favourite Golf Course: Royal Dornoch/Parkstone
Alternative Career: Mr Incredible, married to that cheeky minx Elastigirl
Champagne Moment: Greenside JR says, 'Is my bag in the way or shall I move it for you?' PJ says, 'Nah, don't bother, I'd have to hit a pretty awful shot to hit that.' ........he should have moved the bag!
Description: Enthusiastic, trustworthy, lust for life, pint always full, oh and ginger!
Characteristics: Sophistication, charm, worldly
Interesting Fact: Lancashire boy at heart
Favourite Golf Club: None of them, they don't work
Favourite Drink: Beer (real ale) or red wine. Or anything else that is on offer!
Suggested Tour Venue: Switzerland or Austria
Best Thing About GBH: Great food and fine wine!
Other Leisure Pursuits: Skiing, Squash, Mountain Biking
Favourite Golf Course: West Surrey
Alternative Career: Film star, they always get the ladies.....
Champagne Moment: Still waiting! One day maybe......
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Description: 7/8ths backswing, full rotation, 100% wrist action on whippy release using favourite stiff shaft with full follow thru. Head nice and still unless shot-making excitement takes over
Characteristics: reasonably straight off the tee and long unless the demons get inside
Interesting Fact: I once swapped my local comprehensive for a week at Eton. That makes me a Gent, surely?
Favourite Golf Club: 3 wood nipped off the track
Favourite Drink: Guest beers from the local free house
Suggested Tour Venue: Riga, Talin, Bratislava and home
Best Thing About GBH: As a newcomer the genuine friendliness and great humour of a reasonably diverse bunch who don’t take golf too seriously
Other Leisure Pursuits: Football, skiing and chilling as often as I can with two young daughters. Oh and flying to Germany once a week……urrrrrrr
Favourite Golf Course: Has to be Augusta. And now it’s in glorious high definition
Alternative Career: Tornado GR4 pilot – may have been too if it wasn’t for failing my navigator exams
Champagne Moment: I’d like to think there’s a few left in me but an EAGLE at the 13th Mid Herts (Club Champs 2010). Drove off 284 yrd par 4 in front of 7 GBH and stoned it to 4 ft. Putted for an EAGLE 2
