St mellons Golf Club
Club Officials
Meet our officials
Learn more about the club officials here at St. Mellons Golf Club. To get in touch with any of our officials, please contact the club directly here.
John Critchley
President
John was a previous member of Blackley G C Manchester prior to moving to South Wales to take up employment in 1989 at the Western Mail and Echo in Cardiff. He joined St Mellons GC as full member in 1991 served on various management committees, during this time volunteered to work alongside the green keeping staff on a casual basis. He was Captain of St Mellons GC from 2007-08. Secretary of South Wales Coastal Golf Captains Society 2010 -15 Committee member of St Mellons Seniors Society and Captain 2014-15. Captain of South Wales Coastal Golf Captains Society 2016-17 representing St Mellons G C and the Society at the various golfmg competitions through the year, which concluded with the annual dinner which was attended by the 17 clubs that make up the society, the Vice Captain of the R&A also attended. John was given Honorary Membership of St Mellons Golf Club on the 2nd of March 2020 for the time he has given to St Mellons Golf Club as Health and Safety Officer.
Brian Trendell
Chairman / Director
DAD // Retired // Very Av Golfer // Lifelong Chelsea FC supporter // Recent Dragons Rugby
follower // Corporate Acquisition / Expansion // Delivery of £M Business Solutions, MIS and Complex
IT Infrastructure; IT Security solutions in both Private & Public Sectors // Business Change; Risk;
Issue management // Past Golf Club Captain // Advised on Golf Club Strategy, Policy; Operation in a
“one club” ethos.
Simon Dibley
Director
Gareth Mills
Finance Director
Robert Gibson
Director
I am privileged to have been a long-standing member of St Mellons Golf Club having joined in 1993. Having represented the club on the golf course whilst playing for the seconds, thirds and wayfarers it is now time for me to represent my fellow members as a director.
I feel that St Mellons Golf Club has one of the best layouts in South Wales and feel I can help to push this forward to achieving the best course in South Wales using my considerable experiences having ran my own company since 1989.
Frances Duffy
Director
Robert Cook
Secretary
Anthony Regan
Mens Captain
I’ve been a member at St Mellons for 24 years now, and it still feels like home every time I walk through the door.
I grew up in Cardiff, educated at St Illtyd’s College in Rumney, and spent my younger years playing rugby for Old Illtydians RFC and Sunday league football for South Vale. When running started getting the better of me, golf was the obvious answer — and I’ve never looked back!
By day I’m a Company Director in the manufacturing and construction industry, a role I’ve held since 1997. Outside of work, my wife Carolyn and I love travelling and socialising, though our six grandchildren keep us busier than we ever expected — not that we’d have it any other way!
I look forward to seeing you around the club.
Beverly Smith
Ladies Captain
It is both a pleasure and privilege to serve as Lady Captain of St Mellons Golf Club, 2026.
My background is steeped in sport, having competed for Wales and Great Britain in women’s artistic gymnastics. Towards the end of my competitive career I was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study coaching in the USSR and USA, which enhanced my development as a national coach and international judge.
I have had an interesting, if eclectic professional career. After teaching PE, I worked as Development Director for Welsh Gymnastics, managed the Sport Development Unit at Cardiff County Council and gravitated back to academia as a Principal Lecturer and retired as Dean of Quality & Standards at Cardiff Metropolitan University.
I am a very proud mother of twin boys and grandmother to two talented and ever-busy grandchildren.
On the course, my golf is a work in progress but I am looking forward to playing, and supporting the membership to the very best of my ability.
