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Tim Yeo has been a Member of the British Parliament since 1983. He served in the Administrations of Margaret Thatcher and John Major and was a member of the Shadow Cabinet from 1998 to 2005.

Tim has been writing about golf for ten years, initially for Country Life and Golf Weekly, before starting his column in the Weekend FT.

He has all the zeal of a convert to golf, having only started to play regularly in his mid-thirties. Since then he’s tried to make up for lost time and has now played over two hundred courses in more than twenty countries ranging from Taiwan to Cuba. His home club is Royal St George’s, Sandwich, and he is also a member of both Sunningdale and the Royal and Ancient. He is also Vice President of the National Golf Clubs Advisory Association.

Before entering Parliament he worked in investment banking and latterly was Chief Executive of one of Britain’s largest charities, SCOPE. He is a graduate of Cambridge University. - -

Don’t bet on it, partners

As the FT Championship approaches, Tim Yeo hopes that the old adage about a bad dress rehearsal before a good first night will once again prove true

Player power

Gary Player, the great South African golfer, exchanges notes with Tim Yeo as he goes for another milestone in his career by breaking the record of 50 starts in the Masters

Sheer perfection with a French connection

Tim Yeo enjoys two days of undiluted pleasure and magical perfection as he plays a two-ball foursome golf match at Morfontaine, France

Cuba’s dictator-in-waiting

Tim Yeo is available to take on the post of Cuba’s ‘golf dictator’ to transform the island into the world’s premier 21st-century golf destination

Tipping the cap to MacKenzie’s masterpiece

Royal Melbourne has long been one of Tim Yeo’s ‘must play before you die’ courses, and much to his delight, it fully lives up to expectations

Snowed off in Shanghai

To play golf in the stormy winter weather of China is what Tim Yeo wants – something only mad dogs and Englishmen will insist on doing

Predictably unpredictable

However well prepared you are, conditions on any particular day can still mess up your game. Callaway’s I-MIX Technology aims to fix that, says Tim Yeo

UK must stop ducking action on green issues

Last week’s Conservative response to the government’s proposed nuclear power stations was a good start, writes Tim Yeo

How to produce a great new golf course

Respect for the natural environment and a minimal building footprint are key considerations, writes Tim Yeo