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 E-Mail    terry_farnworth@oxy.com

I am a 62 year old "Geordie" who has been playing golf for too many years to remember. My wife Kathleen and I have a son and daughter and became grandparents to Isaac on my 60th birthday in September 2008. I retired from the DOGT chair 2 years ago, but with the imminent departure of Eric Sweeney to pastures new I was persuaded to resume duties. I was posted to Qatar from Dubai for a 6-week project over 15 years ago. I work in Quality Assurance but the Quality side is not reflected in my golf. I am a past captain of Wallsend Golf Club in the North East of England and was Competition Secretary there for several years in the early 1980s. I have an ambition to reach a single figure handicap, but also hope to win the UK lottery. It is debatable which ambition is the most likely to be achieved.

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Philippa Clancey

Growing up in Largs Scotland, a stone’s throw from Troon and Turnberry, it’s sad that I wasn’t interested in golf. This was an activity for male cliques dressed in waterproofs. After graduating from Glasgow University and becoming a Scottish Chartered Accountant, I worked as a travelling auditor in many different countries.  It was only when I married Byron and moved to Lagos Nigeria that I realized you had to play golf to join in fun events like the Oilmen’s Golf Tournament held in Abuja. I wish I’d started playing golf sooner - I’d have a better swing – and it’s great to see youngsters getting into the game early. There can’t be many better opportunities than the Doha Oilmen’s Junior Academy. I always try to remind myself that golf is about more than hitting a ball and winning - it’s about sportsmanship, playing by the rules and making good friends. The first of these definitely help with the latter!  The Junior Oilmen’s helps the youngsters understand this and I’m happy to support the program and to help organize this great annual tournament here in Doha. The last eight years I’ve been in Doha working with ExxonMobil and for the last year with RasGas.  I’m glad to use my accounting skills to help out the DOGT as Treasurer.  As my golfing friends will tell you, I’m good at keeping the score!

Pete Nutty

E-Mail  pan@moq.com.qa

Married to Claire

3 Children, Amy (14), Kate (5) and Chloe (1)

Been in Doha for 9 years and with the Oilmens for over 5 years...

Have about three full sets of clubs strewn in every lake on the course... and on shaft replacement number 30 - a club record...

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Chris Liddicoat

As a family, we arrived in Kuwait in early 1995. Our ME adventure continued with a 2 year stint in Oman before moving to Qatar, which has been our home since mid 2000. I work for Commercial bank and have been involved in organising many of their early corporate tournaments. I only started playing golf seriously in Qatar and like many others, regret not having started much earlier in life. Fortunately our son, Donovan, has taken to the game and he was one of the founding group of 12 Junior Academy members. My regular contacts with the group eventually led me to join the DOGT Committee with specific responsibility for the DOA junior programme. It is a source of immense pleasure to see how the Academy has grown since it started and to follow the progress of our many talented juniors. As testament to its success, most of our current and past seniors have single figure or scratch / plus handicaps, with some even having turned professional.

Jim Ierubino

Colleen and I moved to Qatar via ExxonMobil in early 2004 when our daughter Paige was in Kindergarten.  Paige is now a 6^th grade student athlete at the American School of Doha. and there is no end in sight to our tenure in Qatar. We are happy to call Doha our home away from home (other is in the USA).  We have been members at Doha Golf Club since the day we arrived in country, and we enjoy the course and the game immensely.  Our daughter is deep into gymnastics, as well as many other activities. We hope she’ll add golf to that list before too long! I recently changed assignments from Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Company (RasGas) to Qatar Liquefied Gas Company Ltd (Qatargas) in the project management field. I also have worked organizing many golf events at Doha Golf Club over the years (RasGas/Qatargas LNG Cup, RasGas Pro Am, RasGas Classic). I get a lot of enjoyment giving back to a game that has given so much to me.  

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Byron Clancey

Canadian born and married to Philippa, I have been expatriate for more than 20 years, with assignments in Canada, Holland, Scotland, Nigeria, USA, and for the past 8 years in Doha. I have been involved in the planning and organization of RasGas golf events for several years and welcome the opportunity to further support golf in Qatar as a member of the Doha Oilmen’s Golf Tournament Committee.

During my time in Qatar, I have benefitted from the excellent coaching and outstanding patience of almost every golf instructor at DGC. My golf swing represents an attempt to integrate all professional coaching available in Doha and is very much work in progress.

While in Qatar, I have seen many junior golfers progress quickly to a single-digit handicap; and know that some have received college scholarships and others have advanced to professional status.  While the Doha Oilman’s Academy has provided many of these young golfers with a fantastic opportunity to improve their skills, much has also been the result of their own hard work and dedication. The Academy also works on developing the sense of sportsmanship that these young golfers often have opportunity to display when they thrash me in match play events and the monthly mugs and medals.

Wedge Louison

                                                                                                                                   email: siflint7@hotmail.com

Steve Flint

I work for Commercial Bank Qatar and have been in Qatar since 2005. The game of golf came to me far too late in life for it to be anything other than relaxation, mixed with too much frustration and too little ability, though I truly regret not having found it sooner. Nowadays I am incapable of forming an athletic stance, lack any measure of consistency and run out of energy long before I run out of holes. So it is a pleasure to help our youngsters take up the game at an age when ability, confidence and physical fitness know no boundaries. When every shot is possible, every putt is makeable and every drive is out of sight. Since I am not able to offer advice about playing the game, my time is best spent helping out behind the scenes. Golf is a seriously good game and can teach all of us many important lessons about life. It teaches us tactics and the fact that there’s always more than one way to get a result; it makes us think about problems and how to come up with solutions. The game also teaches us about strategy, patience and courage but most of all it teaches us how to win. My part in all this is to instill in our youngsters a belief that life, like the golf course, is sometimes going to be tough but that anything can be overcome with the right approach.

Nick Baker

Nick was born into a Yorkshire cricketing family and as a consequence failed to start playing golf until in his mid twenties. A total golfaholic he is delighted to be involved in the Oilmen’s and the development of young talent in Qatar. He has an understanding wife who is happy for him to play golf, and children who think that Taylor Made should be sponsoring me!

He has been privileged to work around the world over the past 15 years and believes that the work being carried out by the Oilmen’s, in the development of coaching for our young players, is comparable to the best available.