PETER Leslie certainly kept up a family tradition when he drove in as Rochford captain on Sunday following his dad and father-in-law into a golf club’s top job.

Both father David and wife Mandy's dad Fred Laws are past skippers at Thorpe Hall and nine handicapper Peter also signed in when he hit his opening tee-shot 218 yards dressed in old fashioned golf gear.

Afterwards the Kindred Club captains and their wives joined a large gathering for the superb carvery lunch.

Peter was born in 1956 in Westcliff and went to Richmond School and was part of the initial intake of comprehensive youngsters at Shoeburyness High School.

He went straight from school into publishing work at The Times newspaper and The Engineer magazine and is now proprietor and managing director of Phoenix BES Commissioning Ltd involved in building services at various blue chip sites in London including Lloyds, Downing Street, the Gherkin and HSBC Docklands etc.

Peter has been married to Mandy for 26 years and they have a son Charles in the Household Cavalry Blues and Royals and daughter Liz at college in London — both have also worked at Rochford golf club.

He played a reasonable standard of club rugby for 20 years at Southend, Sevenoaks and Old Juddians and has also reached county standard at clay pigeon shooting — including winning one county open championship.

Classic cars, especially 1950s Triumph TR’s, are also a passion while on the golfing side he has both played in and captained Rochford’s Leslie Wood teams.

Peter’s charity for the year is Help for Heroes. The drive-in nine-hole Texas Scramble was won by Simon Torry, Ian Walden, Rob Moss and Nigel Mathers who fired six birdies and an eagle.