PT, 1976. Photo Joli

The first ever world champ in 1976, PT won the then IPS tour before anyone really knew there was one, but hey. one of the ‘Bronzed Aussies’ along with Ian Cairns and Mark Warren, (more of a promotional surfing boy band than an early Bra Boys style crew) after considerable competitive success, PT went on to various leading surf industry roles as promoter, marketer, coach and administrator in the uS. As a result of several decades spent in America, PT probably has the weirdest accent in surfing, an unlikely Cali-Aussie fusion.