Family history
Brett's writing is the newest chapter in a family story that now spans nearly a century of professional golf across three continents.
The first British PGA professional to take the trade abroad, Douglas — Brett's father's brother — arrived at Helsingborgs Golfklubb in Sweden in 1929 at 23 years old, after missing out on a club professional's job in England. Over six decades there he worked as an instructor, clubmaker, greenkeeper, elite coach and course architect, designing roughly thirty courses — including Delsjö, Kristianstad and Bosjökloster — and helping found the Swedish PGA. His pupils included King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, whom he coached and played golf with.
Douglas Brasier (1906–1991) was inducted into Sveriges Golf Hall of Fame in 2024 alongside Helen Alfredsson — Swedish golf's highest honour, decided by the Swedish Golf Federation on recommendation from the PGA of Sweden and the Swedish Golf Museum. Brett marked the news in his own column: "Please allow me a wee bit of self-indulgence and mention that my uncle Douglas Brasier has been inducted into Sweden's Golf Hall of Fame."
A member of four international PGAs, Brett has coached in nine different countries over his career — Thailand, Australia, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Singapore, China and more. He has written a golf column for the Bangkok Post since 1995 — 31 years.
Brett's eldest of three sons and also a professional golfer, Michael managed Phuket's Red Mountain Golf Club, Beijing's Reignwood Pine Valley, Australia's Cape Wickham Links, and was General Manager of the Royal Port Moresby Golf Club in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, until the end of 2021. He is now the owner of Nahm Restaurant and Bar on Koh Samui.
The family today
The Brasier name has been associated with golf clubs in England, Germany, Australia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, as well as clubs across Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and China — giving the family a genuinely international view of how a golf club should be run. In one column, Brett noted a more unexpected branch of the family tree: former British Prime Minister Theresa May, born Theresa Brasier, is a distant cousin.
Brett's uncle. Course designer and royal coach, inducted into Sweden's Golf Hall of Fame in 2024.
Coach, writer, and current head of the Brasier Golf name.
Golf club management until 2021. Now owner of Nahm Restaurant and Bar, Koh Samui.
Coaching & club management
Brett coaches swing fundamentals, course management, the mental game and, above all, the short game — the pitching, chipping, sand play and putting that decides more scorecards than the driver ever will.
Three generations across a dozen countries has given the Brasier name a practical, tested view of how a golf club should be run — advice course owners and committees can put to work, not just theory.
Course Review
Returning to one of Thailand's best-run clubs, Brett found a business model that has genuinely held up since 2008 — an easy, effortless arrival-to-first-tee experience that few Thai projects have matched.
Course Review
A course by the sea is rarely played the same way twice — and Cape Wickham, Brett argues, delivers a spectacular ocean view from every single hole, going one better than even Pebble Beach.