Growing up on the East Coast of Australia in a mostly horse-orientated family, my first exposure to golf was in the late 1980s, while on holiday with my grandparents, on the seaside links of Aldeburgh in Suffolk, England. I was 12 years old.

Always keen on sport, and proficient at most of them, but golf hooked me…. and, thanks to expert tuition by my late grandfather, Mickey, I was a scratch golfer as soon as I could shave. Sadly in my late teens my professional ambitions were derailed due to chronic ill health (Crohn's disease) and my life has been on a different pathway ever since.

I became a writer.

Golf and surfing seduced me. They absorbed my youth and then filled my adult life with a sort of dream like existence of meeting many of my childhood heroes, being able to interview them for magazine and book projects (see SwitchFoot surfing books). Surfing media was my starting point, which led to many successes, including being inducted into the Australian surfing hall of fame for my contributions to the sport (2006), travelling the USA and UK with book tours and surfing films.

I will always credit my further expansion into golf to a serendipitous meeting of iconic Australian golf course designer Ross Perrett, who I sat next to on an international airplane flight from Los Angeles to Melbourne in 1999. Ross, at the time, was the business partner of Australia's greatest ever golfer, five times British Open champion, the late Peter Thomson AO. I say greatest, because he was. Getting to know Peter Thomson was truly the springboard for me to push further into the golfing world and the things he shared with me form so much of my understanding of the greatest game of them all.

In 2013 I was invited by IMG to launch my golf history book 'Bump & Run' at the World Cup of Golf at Royal Melbourne, Australia. The years of research in that book, the subsequent magazine work for Inside Golf magazine, the Surfers/Golfers Journal (USA) and occasional writings for Golf Digest and other magazines led me on a path of interviewing the true greats of the game and forming relationships with other golfing enthusiasts all over the world.

I have been very fortunate to spend my life in sports and engaging with inspirational athletes who are at the top of their profession in golf, surfing, football, cricket, triathlon and tennis. From each of these people I draw my insights, engage with the golfing community and hopefully learn more about myself in the process.

In golf, I have been very fortunate to interview and spend time with Peter Thomson, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Tom Watson, Karrie Webb, Jan Stephenson, David Graham, Billy Dunk, Kelly Slater, Sir Bob Charles, Bob Shearer, Rory McIlroy, Peter Toogood, Vijay Singh, Sergio Garcia, Adam Scott, Kel Nagle and many others.

In the golf charity space I have been very fortunate to interview many of Australia's leading sports people, musicians and entertainers who also love their golf. I am actively involved in helping golf courses, general managers, club captains and small charities with the fundraising efforts. You can learn more about that here,https://www.insidegolf.com.au/charity-golf-days/