broadcaster in Britain. He hosted a total of 140 Pro Celebrity Golf TV programmes. Between 1979 and 1986 Alliss hosted 7 series of Around with Alliss, initially broadcast on BBC2. Each series consisted of 6 programmes in which Alliss played a few holes of golf and chatted with a variety of famous people on a number of courses in the UK. In 1997 the format was revived for a six-part television series called A Golfer's Travels. This series featured Alliss in a variety of locations around the world. Alliss was also involved in golf course architecture. His first course design partner was Dave Thomas, with whom he created over 50 courses, including The Belfry, which has staged the Ryder Cup several times and is now the home of the Professional Golfers' Association. Alliss then joined forces with Clive Clark, and added another 22 courses to his portfolio (including Old Thorns Golf Course in Hampshire). He was the Club President at Old Thorns Golf Club in Hampshire and also at Castlemartyr Links Golf Club in Cork, Ireland. Alliss became captain of the Professional Golfers' Association for the second time in 1987. He was also the president of the British Greenkeepers' Association, and was the first president of the European Women's Professional Golfers' Association. In 2002, Alliss was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Bournemouth University. In 2003, Alliss published an illustrated book, Peter Alliss's Golf Heroes, which won the 'Best Illustrated Book' category of the British Sports Book Awards. In July 2005, he was honoured by the University of St Andrews, shortly before The Open Golf Championship, with the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. In 2012, Alliss was chosen to receive the Golf Foundation's 'Spirit of Golf award' not only in recognition of the way he had made the sport entertaining in the eyes of young people, but also for the support he had given to junior golf and his commitment to the Golf Foundation over many years. Alliss revealed that in 1993 he turned down an appointment as Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to golf. In 2014, Alliss helped to create and provide commentary on the video flyovers of all five course layouts of a favourite classic links course at Seaton Carew Golf Club in North East England, and commented during these programmes that the Seaton links were "the tenth