Peter Finch

Golf YouTuber and PGA-qualified coach from Preston, England, who films matches against tour pros and creators, course vlogs and his own tries at pro events on Peter Finch Golf.

Sports · YouTube · Updated Nov 2, 2026

Peter Finch is a golf YouTuber and PGA-qualified coach from Preston, England, known for matches against tour pros and other creators on his channel, Peter Finch Golf. He is not the actor Peter Finch, who died in 1977 and won a posthumous Oscar for Network. He and Rick Shiels were classmates at Myerscough College and coached together before both built YouTube careers, and as of November 2026 his own YouTube channel has about 847,000 subscribers. In 2026 he is on the 16-player roster of Your Golf Tour, the creator league started by Grant Horvat and the Bryan Bros, and he is filming a series about earning world ranking points in pro tour events.

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Who is Peter Finch? Who is Peter Finch the golfer?

Peter Finch is a golf YouTuber and PGA-qualified coach from Preston, England, who runs Peter Finch Golf, a channel of course vlogs, challenges and matches. As of November 2026 his YouTube About page shows about 847,000 subscribers and 1,785 videos, and describes him as a Titleist athlete. Golf Monthly has called him a YouTube star who plays off around scratch and one of its Top 50 coaches. He also runs a coaching channel, Swing Quest Golf, and a podcast channel, The Rough Cut Golf Podcast, both of which he calls his own in his video descriptions.

What happened to Peter Finch Golf?

As of November 2026, nothing has ended for Peter Finch Golf: the channel is still posting a main video most weeks, and no accepted outlet has reported an exit, dispute or injury. What is public is a busy two years. He made Final Qualifying for The Open in 2025 and missed there, per National Club Golfer; he made the cut on a sponsor’s invite at the Asian Development Tour’s Egyptian Open in October 2025, per Golf Monthly; and on May 4, 2026 Golf Digest listed him among the 16 players of Your Golf Tour. In 2026 he started videos on reaching the world top 1,000, and on September 30, 2026 he posted Ep.3, a Tartan Pro Tour event at Fairmont St Andrews that his description says was played for world ranking points. An older moment also resurfaces: in January 2023 a mishit drive of his went through the windscreen of a range ball picker in the UAE, and he said on TikTok that no one was hurt, per Golf Monthly.

Is Peter Finch the best putter in the world? Why is he called the best putter in the world?

Peter Finch has not been called the best putter in the world by any outlet or ranking we could find, and he has not claimed it. What is public: putting is a regular topic on his channel. His Which Putter Is Right For You? has about 746,000 views and Which Putter Is Best For You? about 570,000, and he filmed a lesson with Phil Kenyon, whom his video title calls the world’s No1 putting coach. An older upload is titled The deadliest putter...in the WORLD!, about a putter rather than about him. We could not source where the phrase started.

Is Peter Finch the golfer on Wikipedia? Is he the actor from Network?

Peter Finch the golf YouTuber has no Wikipedia biography that we found, and he is not the actor. The actor Peter Finch was born in London on September 28, 1916, died in Los Angeles on January 14, 1977, and won the Oscar for Best Actor for Network after his death, the first performer to receive one posthumously, per Britannica. This entry is about the golfer from Preston.

How old is Peter Finch golf? What is his real name?

Peter Finch has not published a birthdate, and we found no Famous Birthdays listing for him, so we do not print an age. Peter Finch is his real name: golf press such as Golf Monthly and National Club Golfer use it, and his channel is named Peter Finch Golf.

What is the connection between Peter Finch and Rick Shiels?

Peter Finch and Rick Shiels studied together and coached together before running separate channels. Myerscough College wrote on November 19, 2015 that the two were classmates in its golf academy, became PGA teaching professionals, coached at Trafford Golf Centre and then Lytham Golf Academy, and had a shared channel with more than 120,000 subscribers. Finch told the Lancashire Post that Rick, his business partner in the Quest Golf Academy, “showed me the benefit of using YouTube as a tool for coaching.” They still play each other on camera, as in Last Ever £500 Golfbidder Challenge in 2020 and the three-way match with Grant Horvat featured on Finch’s channel. As of November 2026, Finch is on the Your Golf Tour roster and Shiels is not.

Is Peter Finch a professional golfer? Has he played in The Open?

Peter Finch is a PGA-qualified professional who coaches and plays some pro events, but as of November 2026 he has not played in The Open. In 2025 he shot the joint-lowest score in his heat at Regional Qualifying at Caldy on June 23, then shot 75 and 75 at Final Qualifying at Dundonald Links on July 1 to finish six over and tied 44th, well outside the five spots, per National Club Golfer. In October 2025 his rounds of 72 and 69 made the cut on the number at the Egyptian Open, per Golf Monthly, which quoted him as “Excited, proud, and honestly a bit relieved.” He also played the first PGA Tour Creator Classic at East Lake on August 28, 2024 and finished one shot out of the playoff, per Golf Monthly and the PGA Tour.

What did Peter Finch say about Paige Spiranac at the Internet Invitational?

Peter Finch said on camera that Paige Spiranac pressed down long grass behind a teammate’s ball in the final of the Internet Invitational, the $1 million creator event Bob Does Sports and Barstool Sports produced in 2025. National Club Golfer reported on November 17, 2025 that Finch, watching the final, told Fat Perez that “Paige has gone ahead of the ball and literally pressed down all of the long grass,” and that footage appeared to support him. Spiranac’s response, per the same report: “I thought you could do that. I didn’t realise you couldn’t do that,” and “I wasn’t trying to cheat.” The report did not say whether any ruling followed, and we found no further comment from Finch.

Where is Peter Finch from?

Peter Finch is from Preston, Lancashire, per Myerscough College and National Club Golfer. The Lancashire Post reported that his father got him into golf and that he played at Preston Golf Club from age 14, and in May 2020 Golf Retailing described him as a PGA Professional based in Manchester.

Where can I watch Peter Finch?

Peter Finch’s main videos are on Peter Finch Golf on YouTube, with coaching on Swing Quest Golf and conversation on The Rough Cut Golf Podcast. Short clips go to TikTok, where he has about 103,000 followers as of November 2026, and to Instagram, X and Facebook. His Your Golf Tour rounds run on the league’s channels, and he has played a match video with Sean Walsh, per Heavy in October 2026.

What is Peter Finch’s net worth?

Peter Finch does not publish a number and neither do we.

Is Peter Finch married? Does he have kids?

Not something we cover.

Who represents Peter Finch?

As of November 2026, Peter Finch’s business runs as Finch Golf Media, the name on the links page in his video descriptions. Golf Retailing reported on May 18, 2020 that he launched it as a partnership with the golf marketing agency Performance54, his partner since 2016, with a brand manager and a videographer on staff; we found no newer report naming his management. Ames Create does not represent him; we cover him because people search his name and find an actor who died in 1977, and his own story is worth finding. If that changes, this entry will say so.

Our read

Ames Create does not work with Peter Finch. This is our view, from a team that works on creator brands for a living.

The format. The channel is a scratch golfer testing himself in public: a match against a tour pro, a head pro at his own course or a creator from the American side, played out over 18 holes with the stakes in the title. Coaching was where he started, and it still shows in how he explains a bad hole as he walks off it. The world ranking series adds a real scoreboard to that.

Why it travels. Matches with a clear question, such as whether a YouTuber can beat a tour pro or make a cut, regularly reach 300,000 to 550,000 views on his channel. Collaborations carry him across the Atlantic: Your Golf Tour, Grant Horvat, Sean Walsh and Ryan Ruffels put a Preston coach in front of the American YouTube golf audience, and the Internet Invitational clip showed how far one sharp comment can travel.

Brand fit. Golf equipment, travel and data are the natural lane, and his descriptions already show it: Titleist on the About page, a Shot Scope sponsored tour event, a Golfbreaks trip to Ireland and resort hosts in the US. A brand gets a credible teaching pro rather than a pure entertainer, which suits gear and instruction more than novelty products.

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Sources: Peter Finch Golf on YouTube, videos Ep.3, Which Putter Is Right For You?, Which Putter Is Best For You?, Phil Kenyon lesson, The deadliest putter, Golfbidder Challenge and the match with Grant Horvat and Rick Shiels; his TikTok and links page; Golf Monthly, January 2023, September 2024 and October 2025; National Club Golfer, June 2025 and November 2025; Golf Digest, May 2026; PGA Tour, August 2024; Golf Retailing, May 2020; Myerscough College, November 2015; Lancashire Post; Britannica on the actor. Subscriber and follower counts read from YouTube and TikTok, November 2026.

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