Golf is a non-contact sport which should be safe for players, spectators and members of the public.

Accidents happen all too frequently, and a driven golf ball, which can fly at up to 150 mph, can leave impact victims with catastrophic and life-changing injuries.

Injury on golf courses can result from negligence by players, faulty course design or ineffective course management.

I understand how important it is to provide unambiguous evidence and informed opinions to assist the decisions of instructing Solicitors, the Court and the Claimant or Defendant.

Courts require expertise to be applied rigorously in reports which are impartial, insightful and thoroughly researched.

My expertise has been accumulated through formal experience and detailed knowledge of the subject matter at all levels.

I offer an unrivalled combination of golf expertise with a background at the elite levels of amateur and professional tournament golf, plus the design and development of golf facilities and the application of safety procedures and accident prevention.

For three years I held the post of Chief Executive of the Golf Foundation, the national development body for under-18s within the sport. I have presented papers and delivered safety and development talks to the leading administrators of golf in Europe.

I provide expert testimony on behalf of the Claimant or Defendant in cases of personal injury on the golf course and in loss of career prospects within golf from non-golfing injuries.

My methodology is to conduct rigorous analysis and research and to refine this to provide clarity on the important facts and expert opinion.

I have been instructed in over three hundred cases. Among these have been several high value cases including one award in excess of £1,250,000 for injuries and loss of earnings.

I have presented evidence in Court on more than thirty occasions including landmark cases in the Court of Session in Edinburgh and in the High Court Belfast.

My clients include some of the most important firms of solicitors in the UK and Ireland.

I have also provided expert consultancy services in Local Authority Planning Applications and Appeals where residential and commercial developments are proposed or located close to golf facilities.

I have prepared vocational reports on behalf of leading professional golfers, and golf course safety audits on behalf of insurance companies.

Areas include:

Personal injury from driven golf balls:

• Golf accidents.
• Golf personal injury on the course.
• Golf personal injury to the public.
• Golf equipment misuse.
• Golf slip and trip accidents.
• Golf driving range safety.
• Golf driving range personal injury

Golf course safety:

• Golf course safety audits.
• Golf practice ground safety.
• Golf course risk analysis.
• Golf accident reconstruction.
• Golf accident prevention.
• Player safe behaviour.
• Practice ground safety.
• Equipment safety.
• Staff safety.
• Loss of earnings assessment.
• General sport safety – equipment and premises.
• Vocational reports.