Paul Daley is a respected author, editor, speaker and publisher. His love of sport from childhood, especially golf and cricket, has now become his career. He is a renowned international expert on diverse aspects of golf, including its history and golf-course architecture. 

A cricketer at various Western Victorian towns in his formative years, Paul later moved to Melbourne and represented Ashwood Cricket Club in the early and late-1980s.

With sports publishing running through his veins, Paul founded The Official Hole-in-One Register Pty Ltd in 2005, bringing this ground-breaking publication to market in 2007. A world publishing first, the book features a list of holes-in-one achieved in competition throughout Australia, golfing memorabilia, facts and figures, golfers’ narrations, reproduced oil paintings of the game’s greatest exponents and excellent golf-course photography.

Paul has maintained an impressive publishing output over the past eight years. It is:

• Links Golf: The Inside Story (2000)
• The Sandbelt: Melbourne’s Golfing Heaven (2001) [With David Scaletti]
• Golf Architecture: A Worldwide Perspective, Vol. 1 (2002)
• Golf Architecture: A Worldwide Perspective, Vol. 2 (2003)
• Favourite Holes by Design: The Architect’s Choice (2004)
• Golf Architecture: A Worldwide Perspective, Vol. 3 (2005)
• Golf Architecture: A Worldwide Perspective, Vol. 4 (2008)

His highly acclaimed titles have been accorded numerous accolades. Links Golf: The Inside Story (2000) and The Sandbelt: Melbourne’s Golfing Heaven (2001) were joint runners-up in the United States Golf Association International Golf Book of the Year Award in 2000 and 2001, respectively. Links Golf was the first Australian book ever to be honoured in this prestigious award.

Favourite Holes by Design: The Architect’s Choice (2004) and Golf Architecture: A Worldwide Perspective – Vol. 3 (2005) were both semi-finalists for the Independent Book Publisher Association Award, in 2004 and 2005, respectively.

Golf Courses of the Mornington Peninsula (2005), was another of Paul’s book projects, where he acted in the capacities of project manager, editor and contract publisher for Eagles Nest Publishing.

A member of The National Golf Club and Yarram Golf Club, Paul also enjoyed membership of Southern and Huntingdale Golf Clubs, representing both clubs in pennant. The lowest mark he attained was two, while he currently plays from a seven handicap. Paul is also a member of The Australian Golf Writers Association, The Australian Society of Authors, The Tillinghast Golf Society and The Australian Golf Society, serving on its committee from 1999 to 2002. Paul has extensive international golfing experience, having studied and played on golf courses in Scotland, England, Ireland, USA, New Zealand and Canada.

Paul’s interests include watching test cricket, playing golf, studying golf-course architecture, collecting and reading cricket/golf literature, attending musical concerts and the theatre with his wife, Penelope, and listening to his eclectic music collection. Paul’s all-time favourite golfing hero is Ben Hogan. Steve Waugh is the cricketer he admires most.