[1][2] He was brought up near Walton Heath Golf Club and was an assistant to James Braid before World War I.

[4] After World War I, Faulkner took a position at Pennard Golf Club on the Gower Peninsula in south Wales.

[5] After leaving Bramley, Faulkner was briefly at West Bay, Dorset and Worlebury Golf Club, Weston-super-Mare.

[5] They had three children, Max (1916–2005), who won the 1951 Open Championship, Reginald (born 1918) and Frank (1919–1941).

[3] Frank was an assistant professional to his father at Bramley before World War II but was killed in a road traffic accident near Cambridge, while serving as a corporal in the Army, aged 21.