I think I must have first picked up a club when I was one and a half to two years old. My dad was a golf professional and he was playing a bit back then. We lived in the middle of London and I first started playing at a place called the London Golf Centre, which I believe is closed down now, but that’s where it all started. I fell in love with the game and my Dad used to take me to the range when he would go to work and I would just whack balls all day thinking it was the best thing in the world. I was just having fun and enjoying it and I just kept going from there.

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My first two years as a pro was very very tough, I was on the verge of quitting many times. I threw myself in the deep end and dropped out of University in the states after three months as I didn’t like it. Turned pro and moved back to the UK and played a couple of events on the EuroPro Tour and then came out here in 2017. It was my first time to Dubai and I played on the MENA Tour which I thought it was amazing!

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Sadly, then the MENA Tour didn’t have any events in 2018, so I went to go play golf in the Philippines. It was fun and a great experience, but it was a struggle. Just trying to adapt to professional golf and everything that comes with it, it was just brutal. Mentally it just killed me. Looking back on it now, I learned so much from those early days.

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In 2019 I was then in a position to move out to Dubai full-time, so I packed up and moved out here and haven’t looked back since! When I am in Dubai my time is spent practicing at The Els Club and the Claude Harmon Academy which is where Joe my coach is. I have been there since I first came to Dubai really and they have always been supportive and have always been very understanding with what I’m doing and trying to accomplish.

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The way my UAE citizenship came about was back in May, after the Challenge Tour events in Abu Dhabi, discussions started with the Emirates Golf Federation (EGF) and it came out of the blue really as I never thought this would happen – it was a shock to me then and I am still trying to believe it.

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It’s been three months now representing the UAE and the EGF and it’s been amazing. The EGF are so supportive and they have an incredible plan in place for the future of golf in the UAE and for what is going to happen going forward. It’s been great to represent a country and federation that has given me their full support and it’s been nice to have that and feel really wanted.

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Being a UAE citizen means I can help the next generation of golfers from the UAE, and for my golf it’s instrumental as well. At the start of next season, I will be playing on the DP World Tour in the events in the Middle East. Even the Hero Dubai Desert Classic which has been a dream of mine since forever. It has been one of the most iconic events in professional golf so who wouldn’t want to play in that? Playing in that, for my home country, in the country I represent is special. To be able to get myself into those bigger events to prove myself against the best players in the world. It’s huge, it means everything to me.

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I have grown up with ADHD and it’s a tough one because it can hurt you, but it can also help you a lot. I like to see that it helps me more than it doesn’t. I think that’s how people who have ADHD should look at it. It’s close to me and is close to my heart as it impacts my everyday life. I can’t change it, I’ve got it, it’s there and I can’t get rid of it so I have to embrace it and have learned to move with it. That’s all you can do, just absolutely own it. It’s close to my heart and my family’s heart that I represent the ADHD foundation as an ambassador and can help out other people as well with ADHD. Everyone has their struggles and I would like to think that the experiences I have had I’ve learned a lot about myself and how things work which has been really good.

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Surprisingly, 2023 has strangely been tough. Results wise I don’t feel like I’ve done well. But equally I have been playing on a much higher level than I was. The previous years I had a lot more top five and top 10 finishes, whereas this year I feel like I’ve had two or three top 10’s – but equally those top 10’s have been huge and in big events on the Challenge Tour and the DP World Tour. When you have off weeks, it looks a lot worse but it’s not actually that far off and it still is quite good. In the end though, you could say it is my most successful year because it has put me in a good position for next year.

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