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CLIVE AUSTIN

You must be able to play this infernal game to shoot a score lower than your age. But bettering your age 120 times and equalling it on a further 68 occasions is simply mind blowing.

But that’s exactly what 87-year-old Clive Austin has achieved.

Clive plays twice, sometimes three times a week, at his home course – Moss Vale Golf Club, in the New South Wales Southern Highlands. But golf hasn’t always been Clive’s first sporting choice.

He was a talented cricketer and played for an array of clubs around New South Wales, donning the whites into his early 40s and was the jack

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