Pip started playing golf at the age of ten. She was the third of four children and her parents were both very keen golfers.  Living in the country in Somerset just a five minute drive from one of the top links golf courses in the South West of England, Burnham and Berrow, she had the ideal opportunity to learn to play the game of golf. Her father, a General Practitioner and a 4 handicap golfer taught Pip and her brother and sisters the basics of the game.

By the age of sixteen Pip was already down to scratch and at eighteen she achieved her lowest handicap as an amateur of +2.  Her amateur career was a progression from club golf to county golf to the ultimate honour of playing for her country. Her older sister Ruth won the prestigious title of British Girls Champion, played for England, and later as one of the founding members of the Ladies European Tour won a professional tour event. With Ruth as her playing partner, Pip always had lots of healthy competition and plenty to aspire to.

From the age of fourteen to eighteen she was awarded a scholarship to attend Millfield School, in Street, Somerset. As a boarder, she received an excellent education and was encouraged to pursue her career in golf. On completion of her secondary education, she was the recipient of a full scholarship to play college golf in the United States at the United States International University in San Diego, California.That was an unforgettable experience, studying mornings, and playing golf every afternoon.

As an undergraduate she studied a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and enjoyed America so much that she stayed on for another two years in capacity of Assistant Men and Women´s Golf Coach and completed a Master of Arts degree in International Relations. As a player she was twice voted MVP – Most Valuable Player, won the Edean Ihlanfeldt Classic as an Individual and played four times in the NCAA National Championship.  Back in England during the summer holidays she finished 4^th in the British Open Championship played at Gosforth Park.

In America she met the love of her life, Chema. After graduation she turned professional, joined the PGA of Great Briatin and took up the post of Head Professional at the Porto Carras Golf and Country Club in Greece, thus embarking on an international career in teaching that has taken her along with her husband to Denmark, Germany, and Spain. Pip speaks fluent English, German and Spanish and loves to teach people from different cultures and finds teaching a rewarding challenge.

She has two children, Carolina and Tomas, who are her pride and joy. When the question arose about whether or not to have a third child Chema´s reply was “Then someone would have to be the caddy”!!! When the family gets together they enjoy some intense family matches with the girls competing against the boys – no need to tell you who wins? jejeJ.  

In her free time Pip loves to cook and be creative and she loves to play golf with friends and family.

Another of Pip´s favourite quotations is this one by Theodore Roosevelt:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiently; who errs and comes up short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the dead; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who never knew neither victory nor defeit.”