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LEE MINER'S words of wisdom ...
The highlights are a bit difficult, particularly for me. The dates joined are also open to conjecture because the early days of the club involved a lot of drinking!
My best recollection of when I joined would be when I first moved into Bullcreek and that was 1976, at which time I started cricket and would have started golf in the Winter of 1977. I will endeavour to crystalise this a bit more later so don't quote me as yet because I'm not sure when I stopped playing for Mtro Seniors and started with Willetton.
Highlights for me have simply been the camaraderie between the entire group. It never ceases to surprise me how a group from age 13 to 60+ have been able to get along so well for so long.
I recall some very enjoyable early days when championships were held at Yanchep Sun City Country Club. Prizes were a bit different then in that while first prize seemed most times to be a bag and perhaps a pair of shoes for second and then it was Catering size tins of Milo, boxes of snickers bars etc, Maggi canneloni TV dinners etc with two members working for Nestle (Ken Grose) and Mars (Andy Danskin).
Everyone got something. The accomodation was a bit different too. Chalets with open fireplaces so things were a bit less cultured than we experience now. I always remember one year when it was a bit cold and one of our members who has since passed on, John (Knockers) Norris, decided that rather than keep going outside for firewood he would drag a rather large tree trunk in and simply feed it into the fire as and when required. Tee off times were a bit of a strain back then as well. For some unknown reason we hit off at 6AM which even for the first day meant a very early rise and then on the Sunday I think we may have started a little later but the Saturday nights were fairly fierce in terms of the drinking stakes so Sunday was, as it is now for some, a bit daunting to say the least.
I still live in hope of winning "The Championships" one day but I will have to pay the handicapper a lot more it seems if that is going to happen.
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