Committee
Ben Mason
Ben Mason
Ben Mason
Event and Tour Organiser
- Home course: Castle Combe
- Golfing style: High Tariff
- Strongest part of game: Approach shots
- Weakest part of game: Off the Tee
- Favourite golfer: Justin Thomas
- Favourite course played: too hard to pick one so Castle Combe - Brabazon and Old Course Villamoura
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Driving 10th on the Brabazon
Event and Tour Organiser
- Home course: Castle Combe
- Golfing style: High Tariff
- Strongest part of game: Approach shots
- Weakest part of game: Off the Tee
- Favourite golfer: Justin Thomas
- Favourite course played: too hard to pick one so Castle Combe - Brabazon and Old Course Villamoura
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Driving 10th on the Brabazon
- Worst golf moment: Not enjoying my first round aged 12 and then not really playing again til I was 31/32 so much wasted golf
Paul Cobb
Ben Mason
Ben Mason
Competition and Handicap Secretary
- Home course: Orchardleigh
- Golfing style: Hit it - find it - hit it again
- Strongest part of game: Bunker play (apparently)
- Weakest part of game: Head game
- Favourite golfer: Miguel Angel Jimenez (The Mechanic)
- Favourite course played: San Lorenzo
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Albatross on hole 10 Parque de Fl
Competition and Handicap Secretary
- Home course: Orchardleigh
- Golfing style: Hit it - find it - hit it again
- Strongest part of game: Bunker play (apparently)
- Weakest part of game: Head game
- Favourite golfer: Miguel Angel Jimenez (The Mechanic)
- Favourite course played: San Lorenzo
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Albatross on hole 10 Parque de Floresta
- Worst golf moment: Hearing C**ts, c**ts, c**ts shouted out on hole 12 The Brabazon (I have delicate ears)
Lloyd Brown
Alun Watkins
Alun Watkins
Members Coordinator
- Home course: N/A golfing nomad
- Golfing style: inconsistent
- Strongest part of game: chipping/around green
- Weakest part: slicing shots
- Favourite golfer: Ian Poulter for performances in Ryder Cup
- Favourite course: Bowood
- Best moment: Winning longest drive on day 4 of belfry tour due to the irony of it
- Worst golf moment: Turning up with z game on the Brabazon course.
Alun Watkins
Alun Watkins
Alun Watkins
Secretary & Treasurer
- Home course: Chipping Sodbury
- Golfing style: all over the place
- Strongest part of game: n/a at this time!
- Weakest part: off the tee
- Favourite golfer: Ian Woosnam
- Favourite course: Brabazon
- Best moment: Par score on 1st on Brabazon and PGA National
- Worst golf moment: Playing like a tool in the BBC AT2020 after shooting best ever round 5 days before going
Members
Simon Kelly
Simon Kelly
Simon Kelly
- Home course: not a member but closest is Knowle / Stockwood Vale
- Golfing style: Conservative / measured
- Strongest part of game: mid irons
- Weakest part of game: putting
- Favourite golfer: Phil Mickelson
- Favourite course played: Brabazon, The Belfry or Stoke Park
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Hole in One at 17th, Par 3 Thornbury.
- Worst moment
- Home course: not a member but closest is Knowle / Stockwood Vale
- Golfing style: Conservative / measured
- Strongest part of game: mid irons
- Weakest part of game: putting
- Favourite golfer: Phil Mickelson
- Favourite course played: Brabazon, The Belfry or Stoke Park
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Hole in One at 17th, Par 3 Thornbury.
- Worst moment: topping my drive at Seve's iconic 10th and taking 3 to get past the ladies tee (I did finish with a 5 so not too bad but could have been so much better! )
Dave Cox
Simon Kelly
Simon Kelly
- Home course: N/A
- Golfing style: Poor
- Strongest part of game: Drinking
- Weakest part of game: Drinking
- Favourite golfer: Rob Atha
- Favourite course played: Hidden valley, Cyprus
- Best personal golf shot / moment: N/A
- Worst golf moment: Missing a hole in 1 by an inch at Celtic Manor - Roman Road
Ade Edmonds
Simon Kelly
James Peacock
- Home Course: St Pierre
- Golfing Style: Hacker
- Strongest part of game: 19th hole
- Weakest part of game: Driving
- Favourite golfer: Faldo
- Favourite course played: The Manor, Castle Combe
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Chipping out of Bunker double strike to a foot of hole 'trick shot'
- Worst golf moment: Getting the call that my wife was in labour
- Home Course: St Pierre
- Golfing Style: Hacker
- Strongest part of game: 19th hole
- Weakest part of game: Driving
- Favourite golfer: Faldo
- Favourite course played: The Manor, Castle Combe
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Chipping out of Bunker double strike to a foot of hole 'trick shot'
- Worst golf moment: Getting the call that my wife was in labour and I needed to be home quick, whilst I was at the furthest point from the carpark. End result was I got my wife to the hospital but I missed the birth due to parking the car!
James Peacock
Christopher Dudbridge
James Peacock
- Home course: Broome Manor
- Golfing style: Hacker
- Strongest part of game: Not found it yet
- Weakest part of game: All of it
- Favourite golfer: Rory
- Favourite course played: Bay hill
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Par on the 17th at bay hill
- Worst golf moment: Too many to mention
Frankie Pankhurst
Christopher Dudbridge
Christopher Dudbridge
- Home course: The Bristol
- Golfing Style: it could go anywhere
- Strongest part of game: Drive
- Weakest part of game: Bunkers
- Favourite golfer: Phil Mickelson/ Gareth Bale
- Favourite course played: Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort, Wolf Course
- Best personal golf shot / moment: beating my old man for the first time
- Worst golf moment: playing hungover in Spain and going round in about 200 shots
Christopher Dudbridge
Christopher Dudbridge
Christopher Dudbridge
- Home course: The Bristol
- Golfing Style: All the gear, no idea
- Strongest part of game: my 7iron
- Weakest part of game: long game
- Favourite golfer: Rick Shiels
- Favourite course played: Kendleshire, Bristol
- Best personal golf shot / moment: breaking 100 after 5 years
- Worst golf moment: shanking my 1st ever tee shot 4 times into a lake 30ft away at a 90degree angle in front of a lot of players
Chris Green
Chris Green
Chris Green
- Home course: Broome Manor
- Golfing style: Wildly inconsistent
- Strongest part of game: Before the 1st tee
- Weakest part of game: Between the 1st and 18th
- Favourite golfer: Tommy Fleetwood
- Favourite course played: The Belfry
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Par on the Christy O’Connor 18th at The Belfry
- Worst golf moment: Nutmegged myself off the t
- Home course: Broome Manor
- Golfing style: Wildly inconsistent
- Strongest part of game: Before the 1st tee
- Weakest part of game: Between the 1st and 18th
- Favourite golfer: Tommy Fleetwood
- Favourite course played: The Belfry
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Par on the Christy O’Connor 18th at The Belfry
- Worst golf moment: Nutmegged myself off the tee into the water beside the tee box on the 18th at The Players and it was infront of my boss!
Marcus Dunk
Chris Green
Chris Green
- Home course: Minchinhampton
- Golfing style: Erratic
- Strongest part of game: 60 yrds out
- Weakest part of game: Driving
- Favourite golfer: Tiger - who else!?
- Favourite course played: Taunton & Pickeridge (childhood course)
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Holing a 20ft putt after an 'old boy' bet me a mars bar I wouldn't make it
- Worst golf moment: Hitting 5 different trees on the same hole
Dan Harris
Chris Green
Dan Harris
- Home course: N/A
- Golfing style: Power up
- Strongest part of game: 50°wedge
- Weakest part of game: Consistency
- Favourite golfer: Rory
- Favourite course played: Brabazon The Belfry
- Best personal golf shot / moment: winning everything on the Brabazon on tour
- Worst golf moment: To many to mention one
Rob Atha
Glenn Prested
Dan Harris
- Home course: Willow Valley (most played course)
- Golfing style: Erratic
- Strongest part of game: distance
- Weakest part of game: Consistency/Putting
- Favourite golfer: Tiger
- Favourite course played: Belfry Brabazon
- Best personal golf shot / moment: a 260yard 3 wood into a 540yard par 5 on a links course in South Wales, pin high 7ft from the pin.
Glenn Prested
Glenn Prested
Glenn Prested
- Home course: Golfing nomad
- Golfing style: Military
- Strongest part of game: 5 wood off the deck
- Weakest part of game: Consistency
- Favourite golfer: Ian Poulter
- Favourite course played: Brabazon @ The Belfry or Flackwell Heath.
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Hole in 1 at the Kendleshire 16th hole with Adi watching
- Worst golf moment: 3 wood goi
- Home course: Golfing nomad
- Golfing style: Military
- Strongest part of game: 5 wood off the deck
- Weakest part of game: Consistency
- Favourite golfer: Ian Poulter
- Favourite course played: Brabazon @ The Belfry or Flackwell Heath.
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Hole in 1 at the Kendleshire 16th hole with Adi watching
- Worst golf moment: 3 wood going further than the ball on a wet day playing Bramley golf course in Surrey.
Prevan Rajh
Glenn Prested
Glenn Prested
- Home course: The Bristol
- Golfing style: Swing it slow watch it go
- Strongest part of game Short game/Putting
- Weakest part of game: N/A...(!).... Driving
- Favourite golfer - Tiger
- Favourite course played: Rolls of Monmouth
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Hole in one @ Bristol 6th
- Worst golf moment: Sliced tee shot @ Henbury 12th smashed bloke
- Home course: The Bristol
- Golfing style: Swing it slow watch it go
- Strongest part of game Short game/Putting
- Weakest part of game: N/A...(!).... Driving
- Favourite golfer - Tiger
- Favourite course played: Rolls of Monmouth
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Hole in one @ Bristol 6th
- Worst golf moment: Sliced tee shot @ Henbury 12th smashed bloke on the back, who then proceeded to trip fall over his trolley!
Tom Budd
Ben Williamson
John Armitage
- Home course: One that has a bar
- Golfing style: Swing and hope...
- Strongest part of game: Only the Gods know.
- Weakest part of game: Golf
- Favourite golfer: Ian Poulter/Sergio Garcia
- Favourite course played: St. Pierre
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Winning the longest drive with a Happy Gilmore impression, incidentally the only time I hit a dr
- Home course: One that has a bar
- Golfing style: Swing and hope...
- Strongest part of game: Only the Gods know.
- Weakest part of game: Golf
- Favourite golfer: Ian Poulter/Sergio Garcia
- Favourite course played: St. Pierre
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Winning the longest drive with a Happy Gilmore impression, incidentally the only time I hit a drive straight.
- Worst golf moment: There are too many to mention
John Armitage
Ben Williamson
John Armitage
- Home course: Mendip Spring.
- Golfing style: Army
- Strongest part of game: on a good day anything
- Weakest part of game: around the green
- Favourite golfer: Seve
- Favourite course played: Belfry
- Best personal golf shot/moment: hole in one, Luanshya golf club
- Worst golf moment: first hole, when I was 8, the juniors had their first tournament. Home c
- Home course: Mendip Spring.
- Golfing style: Army
- Strongest part of game: on a good day anything
- Weakest part of game: around the green
- Favourite golfer: Seve
- Favourite course played: Belfry
- Best personal golf shot/moment: hole in one, Luanshya golf club
- Worst golf moment: first hole, when I was 8, the juniors had their first tournament. Home course, water feature lost all my balls, so didn't even get to play
Ben Williamson
Ben Williamson
Ben Williamson
- Home Course: Whitley
- Golfing Style: What the hell is a golfing style??
- Strongest part of game: 110 yard pitch
- Weakest part of game: Putting
- Favourite golfer: Colin Montgomerie
- Favourite course played: Marbella golf and country club, Spain
- Best personal golf shot/moment: 145 yard chip from the trees, rolled into the pin for a net eagle
- Worst g
- Home Course: Whitley
- Golfing Style: What the hell is a golfing style??
- Strongest part of game: 110 yard pitch
- Weakest part of game: Putting
- Favourite golfer: Colin Montgomerie
- Favourite course played: Marbella golf and country club, Spain
- Best personal golf shot/moment: 145 yard chip from the trees, rolled into the pin for a net eagle
- Worst golf moment: Topping the ball 4 times in a row and not getting further than 10 yards in total...
Mark Terrell
Chris Holloway
Ben Williamson
- Home Course: No home course
- Golfing Style: Keep it straight
- Strongest part of game: Driving
- Weakest part of game: long irons
- Favourite golfer: Ian Poulter
- Favourite course played: Castle Combe
- Best personal golf shot/moment: hole in one on the 6th at Chippenham (old layout)
- Worst golf moment: Losing to my brother!
David Horner
Chris Holloway
Chris Holloway
- Home Course: Before children it was The Bristol...
- Golfing style: Long and erratic
- Strongest part of game: Distance
- Weakest part of game: Accuracy
- Favourite golfer: Justin Rose
- Favourite course played: 2010 @ Celtic Manor
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Driving the 15th at Celtic Manor with my 3wood
- Worst golf moment: Thinning a 4i into someone’s leg when I was about 13
Chris Holloway
Chris Holloway
Chris Holloway
- Home Course: The Bristol
- Golfing Style: Spurs (under achievers lots of promise complete let down no silverware etc)
- Strongest part of game: Long Irons, love 5 and 4 iron shots
- Weakest part of game: Chipping - I am shit
- Favourite golfer: Tiger
- Favourite course played: Loch Lomand was incredible
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Putt to win the
- Home Course: The Bristol
- Golfing Style: Spurs (under achievers lots of promise complete let down no silverware etc)
- Strongest part of game: Long Irons, love 5 and 4 iron shots
- Weakest part of game: Chipping - I am shit
- Favourite golfer: Tiger
- Favourite course played: Loch Lomand was incredible
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Putt to win the Bristol masters last Thursday
- Worst golf moment: Splitting the arse out of my trousers whilst driving and having to complete 10 more holes with it showing for the rest of the round and in the club house after
Dave King
Ben Garbett
Paul Netto
- Home course: Homeless
- Golfing style: Sporadic
- Strongest part of game: Losing balls
- Weakest part of game: Keeping score
- Favourite golfer: Ian Poulter
- Favourite course played: Nice, wide open ones
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Birdie on the 160 yard Par 3 at Castle Combe
- Worst golf moment: It’s hard to narrow it down but probably involves losing a lot of balls
Paul Netto
Ben Garbett
Paul Netto
- Home course: Nearest Stockwood
- Golfing style: Fade or slice
- Strongest part of game: Still working that out
- Weakest part of game: Long irons
- Favourite golfer: Rory
- Favourite course played: Wentworth
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Driving 2nd green at Bristol and Clifton and putting for my first Eagle
- Worst golf moment: A 10 on one hole
Ben Garbett
Ben Garbett
Ben Garbett
- Home course: Bristol golf club
- Golfing style: Left-hand, erratic
- Strongest part of game: Laser-guided long irons
- Weakest part of game: Putting
- Favourite golfer: Alun Watkins
- Favourite course played: Loch Lomond
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Still waiting for it....
- Worst golf moment: From the tee, striking a goose flush in the breast in Bruges
Gary Booth
Frank Connelly
Ben Garbett
- Home course: no fixed abode
- Golfing style: aggressive
- Strongest part of game: driver/hybrid
- Weakest part of game: driver (!)
- Favourite golfer: Jimenez
- Favourite course played: la manga 1st day
- Best personal golf shot / moment: hole in 1 Bristol
- Worst golf moment: no comment
Richard Slade
Frank Connelly
Frank Connelly
- Home course: Nomadic
- Golfing style: Hit and Hope
- Strongest part of game: Inconsistent Brilliance
- Weakest part of game: Consistent Hopelessness
- Favourite golfer: Tommy Fleetwood
- Favourite course played: Woodbury Park
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Stewarding at the Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor
- Worst golf moment: Usually the tee shot on the 1st at The Bristol
Frank Connelly
Frank Connelly
Frank Connelly
- Home Course:Pirate bay adventure golf.
- Golfing Style: Awful.
- Strongest part of game: 19th hole.
- Weakest part of game: Whole course.
- Favourite golfer: Ben Mason.
- Favourite course played: Augusta.
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Breaking 150.
- Worst golf moment: Getting out driven by a 7 year old
Welly Jones
Will Cartlidge
Welly Jones
- Home course: None at the moment
- Golfing style: Grip it and rip it
- Strongest part of game: Picking the ball out of the hole
- Weakest part of game: Putting the ball in the hole
- Favourite golfer: Ian Woosnam
- Favourite course played: Caerleon
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Still searching for it...
- Worst golf moment: Broke club striking the ground first, resulting in club head going further than the ball
Ian Stuart
Will Cartlidge
Welly Jones
- Home course: Tewkesbury Park
- Golfing style: Long and crooked
- Strongest part of game: 19th hole
- Weakest part of game: Putting
- Favourite golfer: Scott Drummond
- Favourite course played: PGA national west palm beach
- Best personal golf shot / moment: winning a golf trip with a put off on the 18th at The Bristol
- Worst golf moment: losing my golf clubs on a flight to New Zealand
Will Cartlidge
Will Cartlidge
Will Cartlidge
- Home course: The Players
- Golfing style: Boring
- Strongest part of game: Short game
- Weakest part of game: Driver
- Favourite golfer: Tommy Fleetwood
- Favourite course played: Forest of Ardenl
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Hole in one at Thornbury 2nd hole
- Worst golf moment: Topping 1st tee shot onto 2nd green at Henbury in Open comp
Matty Wright
Matty Wright
Will Cartlidge
- Home course - Thornbury
- Golfing style: AOTS
- Strongest part of game: finding bunkers
- Weakest part of game: exiting bunkers
- Favourite golfer: Will Cartlidge
- Favourite course played: Bovey Castle
- Best personal golf shot / moment: hitting a dog walker that refused to keep to the path
- Worst golf moment: Turning a sub 77 round into an 87 by finding a bunker on the 17th at Thornbury
Andy Wormald
Matty Wright
Andy Wormald
- Home course: Isle of Wedmore
- Golfing style: Tends to get a bit hooky. FORE LEFT
- Strongest part of game: Driving
- Weakest part of game: 100 yard wedge shots
- Favourite golfer: TW
- Favourite course played: St Enedoc
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Driving the first green on The Brabazon after 1 hours sleep and a packed 1st Tee.
- Worst golf moment:
- Home course: Isle of Wedmore
- Golfing style: Tends to get a bit hooky. FORE LEFT
- Strongest part of game: Driving
- Weakest part of game: 100 yard wedge shots
- Favourite golfer: TW
- Favourite course played: St Enedoc
- Best personal golf shot / moment: Driving the first green on The Brabazon after 1 hours sleep and a packed 1st Tee.
- Worst golf moment: Shooting 87 when off in final group of 2020 Wedmore Scratch Cup.
Joe Brown
Matty Wright
Andy Wormald
- Home course: Clevedon Golf Centre
- Golfing style: erm...
- Strongest part of game: putting
- Weakest part of game: short game
- Favourite golfer: Ricky Fowler
- Favourite course played: long Ashton
- Best personal golf shot: par 3 165 yards, hit a nice tee shot landed about foot from the hole
- Worst Golfing moment: losing about 12 balls from the same tee!