An expert golf speaker and resident World Hall of Fame golfer, Tony is the perfect personality for events, engaging with audiences across the globe and bringing a freshness to events that reflects the way in which he breathed life back into the Ryder Cup. The son of a lorry driver, Tony overcame the adversity of class prejudices to win eight events on the European Tour in the first decade since its inception, as well as victories in America, South America, Australasia and South Africa. A wonderful golf speaker, Tony can deliver after-dinner speeches about his time as one of the most prominent golfers in the most complex and intricate sports around.
As part of his work as a speaker, Tony calls on his experience of playing some of the most challenging courses in the world. Such experiences has led Tony to developing his own golf course design brand. This brand combines both the creativity and challenge of course playing, bringing his golf player and sports expertise to the forefront to culminate in a complex and exciting range of courses and interesting business opportunities.
As both a sportsman and golfing expert, Tony is the consummate professional - combining his playing career and later life as a pre-eminent authority within the sport to offer unique and entertaining after dinner speeches. Tony is also an engaging event host and is available for hire as an auctioneer for charity functions and golf fundraising events.
What makes Tony stand out amongst the plethora of other golf speakers, is his passion; he thoroughly enjoys participating in golf days, joining in with matchplay and answering guests’ questions on the day. Tony is an ideal personality to have on the course with a warm and approachable persona combined with amazing skill and consistency with all of his shots. After the matchplay, Tony can deliver question and answer sessions, providing an insight into his time battling the greats of the sports, as well as the practice and drive needed to maintain his level of performance.
It is his aforementioned drive and determination that makes Tony stand out from his peers; the way in which he has worked to overcome adversity is impressive and admirable to any audience member; Tony has worked tirelessly in his career as both an active golf player and sports speaker and it is the resolve he demonstrates both on and off the course that have captivated audiences who witness his work as a motivational speaker.
In more recent years, Tony has continued to take centre-stage, appearing on Strictly Come Dancing, competing in the Farmfoods British Par 3 Championship and appearing regularly in the media, where he shares his view on the game.
A strong leader, winner of numerous prestigious contests and inspirational sports personality Tony is an excellent choice of after dinner speaker; he strives to instil his personal work ethic in his audiences, sharing with them the poem and mantra he lives by:
If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don’t,
If you like to win, but you think you can’t
It is almost certain you won’t.
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can!
It is this deep and intellectual personal insight that make Tony more than simply an after dinner speaker and sports specialist, alongside all his work in the world of golf Tony is a fantastic, charismatic and moving motivational speaker.
