Scott Macpherson

Michael had said, by the way, I think that the man who invented the sand wedge...

is going to be at this meeting.

So I rushed down to a bookshop called Quarto, no longer exists, it was on Golf Place, and there was Margaret in there, and I said, Margaret, do you have Gene Sarazin's autobiography, 30 Years of Championship Golf?

Oh, let me have a look.

And it was a facsimile, like a reprint.

I said, that's all I need.

Rushed off this meeting and got Gene Sarazin's, you know, I can't remember how old he was, in his 90s at that point.

And I still, it's one of the prized books in my collection.

And a great read, by the way.

So that led to me...

Yeah, and in fact, if you lined them up, you could see over Gene Sarazin's head to Peter Thompson's head.

Gene Sarazin was so short.

Couldn't believe how tiny he was.

And actually, when we... I'm just going a little bit off-piste here, but...

Eventually we built the golf courses out at St Andrews Bay and one of the holes there, which was originally the third hole, it's quite a long downhill par three.

And I remember Gene Sarazin saying, Scott, the one thing this hole needs to do is if you're in the wrong half of the green, it's a really tough hole.

three putt and so there's a ridge that runs through it and I haven't played there for a couple of years but I remember last time I was up there and I looked back and I thought jeez I've still got Gene Sarazin's words ringing in my ears so yeah they're incredible we're lucky with the game of golf that we've had all these incredible men who have paved the way you know you and I come along you know sort of down the back of the bus trying to do our best but you know we're very fortunate with golf and what it's given us

Yeah.

So, so while we were waiting to build St.

Andrew's Bay, I had a year and a friend of mine was New Zealand guy.