How The Trevor Began
This has caused great debate amongst golfing historians. As to the actual time and date that an elite band of brothers officially launched this great event will have to sit in the history books as a matter of some conjecture.
They will definitely have been members from the halcyon days of "nommies" chez flat 3, Hudson House, that famous bordillo of the Evans' dynasty. The memory remains too blurred as a result of one too many "numbers" and many nights tense trevoring in a "Super League" match.
The conceptual idea of a weekend golf trip involving two teams originally sprung up in Autumn 1994. As the general trevorer of all golf at the time, Buster (later to become Lord Trevor) was assigned the task of trevoring a potential event.
The Hudson boys unanimously felt that the best form of golf was in the matchplay format, so any weekend would
involve two teams playing in a "Ryder Cup" style match over three days. One team picked itself, the residents of Hudson House - at the time, Gazza, Karlos, LT and Prichy. Although the opposition were all Hamptonians, this
name could not be used as fellow school friends were also in the Hudson team. So they were simply named as the Rest of the World (ROW), a name destined to move onto greater things. This team was Jules, Kill, Leafy & Rich. The
Hudson Challenge was born.
The event took place the following Spring in 1995 staying on the Isle of Purbeck with the golf played on the island course of the same name and East Dorset (destined to become a Trevor venue in 1998). The weekend proved a roaring success and, like future Trevors, was fiercely competitive on the course and extremely amicable off. The early format was established - hard matchplay golf by day, nosebag, beers, wine and numbers with plenty of trevoring by night reflecting on the day's golf. The original sport's quiz was an extraordinary marathon of five hours duration late into the night.
The weekend was over and life returned to normal back at Hudson House (if life was ever normal there!! - LT) - but the golfing appetite was now wetted and on a night soon after, The Trevor came to pass. After some discussion (sorry trevoring!!), it was agreed that eight a side would be a good number for the inaugural event.
A natural team was almost in place. It was summer, the cricket season and Hampton blood was cursing through the veins. The "nommies squad" that at this time lived out of Hudson House included four Hamptonians so the basis of one team was formed. LT took on the responsibility of completing the OHA team, naturally including the six OHA players that took part in the original Hudson Challenge. The final two selected were Copey and Hoody.
It was natural evolution that the only non Hamptonian now in residence at Hudson House should become the captain of the opposition, this being Prichy, who was tasked with putting together a team to be known as the ROW. (Prichy's
long-term commitment to The Trevor has since earned him the unofficial title of Honorary President with his counsel taken on all Trevor decisions - LT).
Prichy's team were formed from local boys who could handle a golf club and buy a round, the nucleus being either old college mates (Leicester Poly) or travelling buddies from Australia and the infamous house on Foveaux Street in Sydney, these being Kai, Karlos, Lethal, Sarge, The Irritant and Woz. Prichy plucked his final team member, a quality golfer, from his work colleagues at Coca Cola, this being Dronny.
With the teams now set, LT started trevoring the actual event and with it all booked for Spring 1996, back in Dorset, the legend that is The Trevor was started.
They will definitely have been members from the halcyon days of "nommies" chez flat 3, Hudson House, that famous bordillo of the Evans' dynasty. The memory remains too blurred as a result of one too many "numbers" and many nights tense trevoring in a "Super League" match.
The conceptual idea of a weekend golf trip involving two teams originally sprung up in Autumn 1994. As the general trevorer of all golf at the time, Buster (later to become Lord Trevor) was assigned the task of trevoring a potential event.
The Hudson boys unanimously felt that the best form of golf was in the matchplay format, so any weekend would
involve two teams playing in a "Ryder Cup" style match over three days. One team picked itself, the residents of Hudson House - at the time, Gazza, Karlos, LT and Prichy. Although the opposition were all Hamptonians, this
name could not be used as fellow school friends were also in the Hudson team. So they were simply named as the Rest of the World (ROW), a name destined to move onto greater things. This team was Jules, Kill, Leafy & Rich. The
Hudson Challenge was born.
The event took place the following Spring in 1995 staying on the Isle of Purbeck with the golf played on the island course of the same name and East Dorset (destined to become a Trevor venue in 1998). The weekend proved a roaring success and, like future Trevors, was fiercely competitive on the course and extremely amicable off. The early format was established - hard matchplay golf by day, nosebag, beers, wine and numbers with plenty of trevoring by night reflecting on the day's golf. The original sport's quiz was an extraordinary marathon of five hours duration late into the night.
The weekend was over and life returned to normal back at Hudson House (if life was ever normal there!! - LT) - but the golfing appetite was now wetted and on a night soon after, The Trevor came to pass. After some discussion (sorry trevoring!!), it was agreed that eight a side would be a good number for the inaugural event.
A natural team was almost in place. It was summer, the cricket season and Hampton blood was cursing through the veins. The "nommies squad" that at this time lived out of Hudson House included four Hamptonians so the basis of one team was formed. LT took on the responsibility of completing the OHA team, naturally including the six OHA players that took part in the original Hudson Challenge. The final two selected were Copey and Hoody.
It was natural evolution that the only non Hamptonian now in residence at Hudson House should become the captain of the opposition, this being Prichy, who was tasked with putting together a team to be known as the ROW. (Prichy's
long-term commitment to The Trevor has since earned him the unofficial title of Honorary President with his counsel taken on all Trevor decisions - LT).
Prichy's team were formed from local boys who could handle a golf club and buy a round, the nucleus being either old college mates (Leicester Poly) or travelling buddies from Australia and the infamous house on Foveaux Street in Sydney, these being Kai, Karlos, Lethal, Sarge, The Irritant and Woz. Prichy plucked his final team member, a quality golfer, from his work colleagues at Coca Cola, this being Dronny.
With the teams now set, LT started trevoring the actual event and with it all booked for Spring 1996, back in Dorset, the legend that is The Trevor was started.
The Name, "The Trevor"
So what of the name? Once again, this is a matter of conjecture but the general consensus is that the following tale is roughly how the name came to pass.
This was a time of late night revelry on Saturday's generally frequenting the bars of either Twickenham, Richmond or
Clapham. Recording Match of The Day was a must and watching said programme in the early hours of Sunday morning with "numbers" was the general conclusion to these evenings.
Meanwhile a group of future trevorers had been on a riotous and, ultimately, debauched week's holiday to the particularly seedy resort of Magalluf in 1994. Having met a group of college girls (as you do) and one of our gang having that inevitable holiday romance (one night I believe!! - LT), one of these girls, Emma, a relatively prim country girl
from Suffolk was invited to sample the delights of Hudson House for the weekend. Sadly the romance wasn't rekindled, funnily enough!!, but said female when subjected to the Match of the Day recording proved to be quite insightful when it came to her knowledge of "the beautiful game".
Of course, at this time one of the main analysts on MOTD was the immortal Trevor Brooking and because of her
knowledge, Emma was titled Trevor for the rest of her stay.
Whether it was in her honour, whether it was just Mr Brooking himself, but the new word of "Trevor" was definitely formed around this time. At Hudson House the word Trevor replaced so many words - to think, discuss, debate, analyse as examples - and woe betide anybody who used these instead of trevor!!! (Go to Jules' letter to the OED for further expansion).
This new word became synonymous with everybody at this time and such was its power that the golf event that was
created at Hudson House could only have one name - The Trevor.
This was a time of late night revelry on Saturday's generally frequenting the bars of either Twickenham, Richmond or
Clapham. Recording Match of The Day was a must and watching said programme in the early hours of Sunday morning with "numbers" was the general conclusion to these evenings.
Meanwhile a group of future trevorers had been on a riotous and, ultimately, debauched week's holiday to the particularly seedy resort of Magalluf in 1994. Having met a group of college girls (as you do) and one of our gang having that inevitable holiday romance (one night I believe!! - LT), one of these girls, Emma, a relatively prim country girl
from Suffolk was invited to sample the delights of Hudson House for the weekend. Sadly the romance wasn't rekindled, funnily enough!!, but said female when subjected to the Match of the Day recording proved to be quite insightful when it came to her knowledge of "the beautiful game".
Of course, at this time one of the main analysts on MOTD was the immortal Trevor Brooking and because of her
knowledge, Emma was titled Trevor for the rest of her stay.
Whether it was in her honour, whether it was just Mr Brooking himself, but the new word of "Trevor" was definitely formed around this time. At Hudson House the word Trevor replaced so many words - to think, discuss, debate, analyse as examples - and woe betide anybody who used these instead of trevor!!! (Go to Jules' letter to the OED for further expansion).
This new word became synonymous with everybody at this time and such was its power that the golf event that was
created at Hudson House could only have one name - The Trevor.