Meet the New Recruits
What makes a great member at MANORS? It's hard to say exactly. We like big hitters, short hitters, loud mouths, and quiet types. We have high handicaps and low handicaps — Chase here plays off 7. Each member is unique. Perhaps what unites the fierce fellows at MANORS is that they have a screw loose. It's the screw that holds their obsession with golf in check. Yes, that's it. Each one of them is utterly ravenous for our great game, and we quite like that in our recruits.
Philip Port - HCP 7
Chased out of his native Germany for refusing to take the platzreifer, Philip took refuge in Sunny Portugal during the winter of 2025 before he was spotted by MANORS recruiters.
Jake Elias - HCP 1
Everyone knows a guy like Jake. Life is good, his swing is smooth and beautiful—maybe he's on for his personal best. But something nags in the back of Jake's brain. A slight tweak here, a minor change there, a few YouTube Shorts later, and Jake is lost in the wilderness. Recruit 241 is what we call this particular swing tinkerer. New putter? The fat grip, the claw, the blade, the lab, the broomstick? Or is it his driving that needs work?
Jake likes warm summer evenings listening to R&B Soul, eating chocolate, and drinking fizzy water. Lonely nights where he doesn't have to socialise are when he can focus on what matters: the golf swing. Jake will do just fine at MANORS.
Nathan Sampson - HCP 2
This recruit will amaze and shock you in the same 9 holes for very different reasons. But whether he is hooking one into the ocean or driving the green, Nathan seems to simply waft his club over his ball to see it leave the stratosphere at breakneck speed. The Young Jamaican started his sporting career playing striker for his local huddersfield, but when coaches pleaded with him not to come back the following season. Nathan turned to golf. Rejected and alone, walking the fairways of greater Leeds, the MANORS scouts picked up the trail.
Nathan is a sensitive soul with a big heart. He sang falsetto in his audition for the Fore Choir, where he blew judges away with his pitch and range. Nathan likes Dark Rum and Pineapple Juice, Jam Roly Poly’s and Custard. His favourite music is Drill and he never leaves dinner until he’s finished his vegetables.
James Wilson HCP +5
James Wilson, AKA Short.Side, currently holds the course record for every golf course in Bosnia and he has birdied every hole in the Shetland Islands. He is a golf explorer with stamps on his passport from his native Scotland, Japan, St Lucia, Australia and everywhere in between. James has blonde hair, a centre parting and he looks a bit like a world war two hero - behaves like one too. The Scotsman plays off +5 with a nice baby draw, he dresses well, paints in his free time and maintains his own personal blog. I know, I know - What a f****** tosser.
Ryan Wallace - 4.5
Ryan Wallace, or Fairway Films to those who follow his quest, is on a race against time to play every golf course in London before his visa expires. MANORS just hired him as an in-house creative, which means we're going to make him play every shit hole in the capital before we let him bugger off back to New Zealand.
He's a qualified accountant, so if you need help with your short game or Excel shortcuts, he's your man. Ryan likes indie and classic rock—Sam Fender and Bruce Springsteen, the soundtrack of every accountant worth their salt. And his favourite drink is a flat white, which he insists his country invented — Milk and coffee — Cheers New Zealand.
Pavan Sagoo - +7
Pavan Sagoo is a simple man. Weetabix with no sugar. Black Americano. BBC programming on a Friday night. Fairway. Wedge. Green In Reg.
A round with Pavan could leave you dead from boredom, were it not for the golf. If you zone out from his chat for just a second, he’ll snap you back to attention with his 7th birdie chance in 9 holes. Before he rolls the rock he quietly drops the fact that he’s played in the Kenya Open. That his Dad is from Nairobi. And that he actually quite likes a Chicken Biryani before dancing the night away to Punjabi bangers. He misses the putt. He’s actually a pretty decent bloke.
Kieran Hall - 4
Severely inflexible and colourblind to boot, The Golf Hipster struggles to read greens without his feet. No wonder he thinks 18 holes is too long for a round of golf.
We love him though. Give him a nod if you see him waiting at a green light.
Chase Marchetti HCP 7
This recruit describes his golf game like airplane wifi,barely steady at best, nonexistent at worst.
Despite a career built entirely in music, Rhétorik takes eight-hour solo road trips in complete silence. No music. No podcasts. Nothing. Just him, his dog, and the haunting memory of his last round. He's got long hair that he never wears down, grew it purely to avoid paying for haircuts.
Rhétorik performed at a sold-out Madison Square Garden and produced the intro for ESPN's First Take. He is forever happy but never satisfied, which explains both his golf and life. If you see him walking around the club, tell him to get a haircut.
Adem Wahbi - 1
Adem Wahbi is the Zlatan Ibrahimovic of disabled golf. This guy talks game like MJ and hits fades like him too. Adem knew MANORS before it was MANORS. He’s a shoe in for membership and a likely legend at the club.