A journalist for greater than 25 years, Steve has been immersed in membership golf for nearly as lengthy.
A former membership captain, he has handed the Stage 3 Guidelines of Golf examination with distinction having attended the R&A’s prestigious Match Directors and Referees Seminar.
Steve has officiated at a bunch of high-profile tournaments, together with Open Regional Qualifying, PGA Fourball Championship, English Males’s Senior Beginner, and the North of England Beginner Championship. In 2023, he made his worldwide debut as a part of the staff that refereed England vs Switzerland U16 ladies.
Part of NCG’s High 100s panel, Steve has a selected love of hyperlinks golf and is frantically making an attempt to revive his single-figure handicap. He’d prefer to inform you he floats round 10. The truth is extra like 13.
Steve performs at Sandburn Corridor, in York, and is a rustic member at Shut Home in Newcastle. He has served on numerous membership committees throughout his time within the recreation, and is the present Guidelines Secretary at Sandburn.
Having studied historical past at Newcastle College, he turned a journalist having handed his NCTJ exams at Darlington School of Know-how. He started his profession engaged on weekly papers in Newcastle, earlier than becoming a member of the York Press in 2001. After 5 years as a information reporter, he joined the sports activities desk – specialising in horse racing and snooker – and was Digital Sports activities Editor when he joined Nationwide Membership Golfer in 2016.
What’s in Steve’s bag: TaylorMade Stealth 2 driver, 3-wood, and hybrids; Caley 01T irons 4-PW; TaylorMade Hello-Toe wedges, Odyssey 2Ball Microhinge putter.
