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Veteran golfers

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Veteran golfers

New Zealand has high levels of participation in organised sport, and the most popular is golf. Here Lillian Sime and Audrey Simmons shelter from the rain while taking part in the New Zealand veterans’ foursomes golf championship at the Hutt club in 1994. Their combined ages of 161 years made them the oldest pairing.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: 4886 NZ Recreation-Golf-02

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Greg Ryan, Sport and society – Changing times, 1980s onwards, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/2283/veteran-golfers (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Greg Ryan, published 15 January 2010.