This is a very important time of the year for me, it kickstarts the season with several days shooting in Abu Dhabi for Golf Monthly and then this year a bonus trip to Doha to spend 3 days shooting the tour stars with taylormade adidas.

My role with Neil Tappin from GM was to interview all of the Titleist tour players at the Abu Dhabi tournament, and then the Tayormade adidas tour players at Doha, we covered swing sequences, portraits and also trick shots for features in this years mag. Again like last year the weather wasn’t great, we had several overcast days so when shooting the swing sequences you have to work fast! Overall we managed to cover a lot of players including Rory, Goose, Soren Hansen, Sergio and also Jason Day all great great golfers and more importantly really nice guys. It was a pleasure to work with them. With the portraits Sorens feature is about playing in the wind. Goose was talking about his wine, he’s so laid back and I hopefully captured this with a funny moment from him. Sergio takes no prisoners so we had to work fast, I wanted to show the warrior side of him and managed to get a very nice moody image! Jason reminded me of Che Guevara, he was sporting a full beard, so I used this pose to try and copy the iconic image that we all know, when he saw the pic on camera he said ‘BOY I NEED A SHAVE” I think next day it was gone!