Pegasus Post: December 17, 2020

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Thursday December 17 2020
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On course for 30 years as golf buddies
• By Matt Slaughter
SYLVIA WILSON and her
nine friends celebrated their
combined age of 872 years and
about 30 years of friendship
last week.
Sylvia, who is 80, said they
met about 30 years ago at
Waimairi Beach Golf Club,
where they used to play golf.
She, Ruth Lawson, Moira
Curtin, Shirley Smith, Neroli
Paterson, Margaret Underhay,
Leoni Bolton, Margaret
Paterson and Jean Norton
have been friends ever since.
On Friday, the friends, who
all live in the eastern suburbs,
celebrated their friendship and
combined age with a cake at
the golf club.
Joan Moore has also been a
part of the group but could not
attend the celebration, Sylvia
said.
In spite of none of them
playing golf anymore, four of
them including Sylvia still play
indoor bowls at North New
Brighton Indoor Bowls Club.
She said they meet a couple
of times a year at the golf club
to catch up.
“It’s just something that
we’ve done, basically, since we
gave it [golf] up. We still keep
in touch and four of us still
play indoor bowls,” Sylvia said.
Sylvia said the group played
COMPANIONSHIP: Ruth Lawson, Sylvia Wilson, Moira Curtin, Shirley Smith, Neroli
Paterson, Margaret Underhay, Leoni Bolton, Margaret Paterson and Jean Norton
celebrated about 30 years of friendship and their combined age of 872 at Waimairi
Beach Golf Club on Friday.
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN ​
golf for a total of 242 years
between them before retiring
from the sport.
She said she wasn’t much of
a golfer but enjoyed her playing
days.
Sylvia said another special
thing about the friend group is
they all still live independently.
“Everyone is still living by
themselves, seven of them are
still driving and one of them
has just given up, one of the
92-year-olds, and she’s got
a wee motorised [mobility]
scooter.”
She said “keeping in
touch with people and just
taking an interest in things”
has been part of her secret
to staying healthy for all of
these years.
Sylvia said all of the friends
come from different backgrounds
making them great
company.
“They’re just an interesting
lot and, you know, old friends
are good friends, they really
are.
“It’s just lovely that there
are people there that you can
relate to,” she said.
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