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About Us
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| The creators of Anyone for Tee first met through their professional involvement in the Duty Free business and discovered that they shared an irreverent sense of humour, a love of awful puns and a passion for golf. In March 2002, somewhat strangely for a down to earth subject like golf, they conceived this website at 30,000 feet  on-board Virgin Atlantic flight 27 from London Gatwick to Orlando, Florida, where they were to attend a Duty Free Convention. Both were due to play in the pre-Convention golf tournament and were assessing the likelihood of making complete idiots of themselves on the first tee, in front of all their industry peers.An analysis of their golfing shortcomings quickly led to the realisation that despite the thousands of golf websites available on the internet, none appeared to cater specifically to players of their modest level but perennial aspirations. Anyone for Tee was born. On this page we bring you a little more information about the proud parents. |
Martin MoodieMartin was born in Christchurch, New Zealand and after a brief career with his national airline he turned to journalism and worked on local newspapers. The early days were tough, as writing did not come easily to Martin. It took much head-scratching to churn out his copy and this has left its mark on the Moodie cranium, which today resembles a freshly-shorn New Zealand lamb. But his skills developed and his rapid ascension through the journalistic ranks was recognised by none other than the Rotorua Morning Advertiser, who affirmed that "Martin has done for standards of journalism in New Zealand what the Titanic did for ocean cruises". In search of new and bigger challenges, Martin became one of his country's rare inedible exports and moved to London, where he became a specialist journalist and commentator. In the Duty Free and Travel Retail industry, he for many years edited and published the market-leading international business magazines Duty-Free News International and Travel Retailer International. He recently formed his own company, Moodie International, to serve the needs of Travel Retail professionals, and created the much admired on-line publication, The Moodie Report, in association with Swedish Travel Retail data analysts, The Generation Group. In the Wines & Spirits industry, he is currently the European Bureau Chief of Sommnet.com, the leading online publication. He has also contributed to The International Herald Tribune, Time, The Wine Spectator, Whisky, The Global Drinks Record and Wine magazine. In his professional capacity Martin has travelled widely and consumed alcohol extensively, and will in passing modestly claim to be something of an expert on jet-lag, bars and hangovers. 
Martin is a proud and true Kiwi in every sense and, like all his fellow countrymen, a keen sportsman. His passions are golf, cricket and rugby. He still occasionally indulges in rugby to the despair of his wife and the delight of his chiropractor, and supports the All Blacks through the good times and the bad. He is very proud of ability to perform the Hakka down to the last detail, but this is sadly considered unsporting on the first tee, so Martin's usual opening words to his golfing opponent are "Have you got plenty of new balls with you in case I run out?".When it comes to golf, Martin is like his flightless national bird - short and never airborne. (Although the swing on the right actually looks quite workmanlike, the ball in fact flew low, hard and right into the ladies' tee marker, ricocheting onto the shin of his playing partner, a senior member of the Duty Free industry, with whom Martin had been hoping to conduct a relaxed, in-depth interview.) But while he is a high handicap golfer who is not afraid to admit to being a Duffer, his friends know him to be off plus two in the bar. An inveterate traveller, he has played golf on every continent and well on none of them. Martin remains passionate and committed to improving his game, despite overwhelming evidence pointing to the unlikelihood of this ambition. Like many golfers of his generation Martin's boyhood hero was Arnold Palmer, whose confident, aggressive approach epitomised in the motto "If you can see it you can hit it, and if you can hit it you can hole it" would come to inspire Martin's own golfing philosophy: "If you can see it you can hit it, and if you can hit it you may never see it again". It is such understanding and experience of the ordinary golfer's condition that Martin brings with him to AnyoneforTee.com. 
Clive CarpenterClive was born in Croydon, south-east London, but after finishing his education moved to Cognac, France, where the weather, food and drink were more to his liking. He has spent his entire working life in Sales and Marketing for leading cognac companies, a profession which, like Martin's, has given him the opportunity to drink and travel extensively at someone else's expense, and experience hangovers and golf all over the world. He is today the Business Development Director of Camus Cognac, the largest family-owned, independant cognac house. He took up golf at the age of ten after a period of occasional caddying and was once a reasonably good player - for a few glorious summers in his youth he played off six - but to his intense frustration he was never quite good enough to make the team at Cambridge University.  In his teens, he witnessed the little putt which Doug Sanders missed at St. Andrews that would have won the Open. In 1971 he saw Lee Trevino's outrageously nonchalant and lucky chip-in on the 17th at Royal Birkdale that would destroy Tony Jacklin's hopes of a second Open Championship title. Those two events alone were enough to convince him of the fickle nature of golf, although he was none the wiser or better-tempered as a result when things went wrong with his own game.Inevitably, as work began to get in the way of more important matters, his game began the long slide out of single figures and into its current state of unpredictability. Clive still claims today that certain aspects of his game resemble that of the great Spaniard Seve Ballesteros, principally his powerful driving at acute angles into deep rough, trees and car parks. Unfortunately he has never possessed Seve's powers of recovery, nor his superb short game, and putting has always been a mystery to him. The golfing idiom "You drive for show, you putt with your eyes shut and hope for the best" could have been invented for him. Today he is proud to be a member of Royal St. George's, Sandwich, where he once took keenness to the point of getting up very early with his New Year's Eve hangover three years in a row, in order to be the first out in the frosty dawn and hit the first shot of the New Year off the first tee. He steadfastly denies that this was motivated by the desire to be ahead of everyone else reaching the back of the fourth green, where a generous member would dispense champagne and New Year greetings over his garden fence. Clive brings to Anyone for Tee an understanding of the frustrations of someone who is watching his game decline year by year, but who is incapable of admitting defeat to this infuriating but wonderful sport. Note from the publishers: From time to time, potentially damaging allegations have been made against Martin and Clive on the subject of their respective nationalities. They have made their position perfectly clear in a public statement, which can be viewed here. |
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Contact details Anyone For Tee can be reached by any of the following means: E-mail: teebox@anyonefortee.com Snail mail: Duffersgolf Ltd, c/o Moodie International, 1000 Great West Road, Brentford, Middlesex TW8 9HH, UK Telephone: +44 (0)20 8261 4680 Fax: +44 (0)20 8261 4445 |
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Statement AnyoneforTee.com is a non-commercial site, intended for the information and amusement of its readers and funded entirely by its creators. All genuine advertising appearing on this site has been chosen by the authors on the basis of their personal knowledge of the products, the authors' perception of a correlation between the products and the theme of this site, and the authors' belief that they may correspond to the lifestyle of certain readers and thereby be of interest. The advertising has not been placed by the brand owners, manufacturers or agents of the products displayed. AnyoneforTee.com strongly encourages its readers to consume alcohol in moderation and never when driving a vehicle, especially a golf buggy. All spoof advertising on this site has been created purely for the purposes of amusement, and is not in any way intended to portray genuine products in an unfavouarable manner. |
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