SANDRA Savage has been honoured for her contribution to the Horsham Golf Club, being awarded a life membership to the club.
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Ms Savage, who first joined the club 40 years ago in 1978, said she was glad to be recognised for her efforts.
“I was thrilled and I’ve always loved the club,” she said.
“I’m a non-sporting person that took to golf like a duck to water. I just love golf and the club here is so good.
“I’m not sure what it was about golf. It’s probably the camaraderie. In golf you can find your own level.”
Ms Savage was the first female president on the Horsham Golf Club’s committee of management, a position which she held from 1998 to 2001.
“Becoming club president as the only female to have ever done so was one of my proudest moments,” she said.
Ms Savage has also served as vice-president and president of the ladies committee, and has spent a total of 13 years on the ladies committee and 10 years on the committee of management.
She said she has many fond memories of the club.
“We have had so many good times out there, even down to the catering that we used to do,” she said.
Ms Savage was part of the committee that built the old clubhouse, which burnt down in 2011. It was an event she said really shook her.
“I was in tears after the fire, and some others were. Everything was burnt and just was not like the club we had known. We have been in existence for more than 100 years, it’s a long time,” she said.
Since the fire, she has continued to work extensively at the club, and said being one of the few females to be awarded a life membership of the Horsham Golf Club was a huge honour.
“It is a big honour, and being one of few females to have one is great. They don’t give them out all the time,” she said.