Meet the Team

A founding cornerstone of the College, Alex has led TGC to where it is today. Alex has significant experience in both people and business development, qualified at Master level in Management. His current research interests include examining the links between performance in sport and commercial success in those who have recently turned professional.

Liaison between resorts, partners, and event management keep Tristan busy on a day to day basis. Student finance, onboarding and many other business needs are tended to by Tristan.

Mark’s role as the programme manager of the Tournament Golf College degree draws upon his 9 years of teaching experience in Sport at Further and Higher Education level. He is a Plymouth Marjon graduate with a BEd with Hons in Secondary Physical Education and also a qualified Fitness instructor.

Having played golf for most of his life, currently to a 6 handicap, Mark brings a valuable knowledge and understanding of how to connect academic delivery to golf performance elements and has experience of managing and coaching an amateur football team, which brings a skill set for working with and developing performance level athletes to TGC.

Jamie heads up our BA International Business Management (with Professional golf) degree. Coming from a business and community background, Jamie has a keen sense of how Business works locally and globally. Jamie is currently undertaking his MA in Golf Performance and Management.

Head of Performance Support & Senior Sport Psychologist @ UK Sports Institute. Professional Doctorate in Psychological safety and culture change in high performance sport. Currently working with elite golf and British Wheelchair Fencing, Richard has a wealth of experience at the highest level of elite sports.

Alex is our hands on Performance Psychologist. Working alongside Dr Rich Collins, Alex is keen to help our students cope with the complexities and stresses involved in elite sport. In his other roles Alex is developing and shaping AI through the Innovate UK Bridge AI Project

Adam has worked throughout a wide variety of industries from professional sport to teaching. He brings a wealth of knowledge in a wide range of topics to TGC and provides support for soft tissue and injury work, sports therapy and is academic lead for the International Business Management degree.

Adam has competed at high levels in a range of sports and currently plays golf off scratch. From a soft tissue and injury management perspective he works with athletes at all levels from club golfer to professional tour players and across a broad range of sports from endurance athletes to kick boxers and MMA fighters.

Head of Research Institute for Sport & Exercise Sciences, Professor of Human Physiology and Head of Nutrition to The DP World Tour Golf. A former professional Rugby League player and now a Professor of Human Physiology at Liverpool John Moores University. Graeme’s research is focused on basic and applied sport nutrition where he has published ~175 papers and review articles and spoken at over 100 conferences across the globe.

With over 20 years of experience in teaching, development and coaching in the UK and worldwide, Darren has a unique approach backed up with knowledge to lead the Golf Performance at TGC. As under his tutelage players have competed at International level, on all major European & Asian Tours and in the Open Championship.

He has worked with National Champions, PGA Cup players and for many years headed the coaching for the Cornwall U18 County team. Darren’s career to date includes coaching at the Emirates GC in Dubai, and the St Mellion Estate where he still undertakes performance based coaching.

With many years in industry Kevin has seen every aspect of the golfing world. Now he aids TGC with recruitment through open days, events and meets.