Squire of Shannon was of stern stuff, especially when the wind blew
John Stern, centre, towered over his fellow Manawatū-Whanganui Freyberg Rosebowl players during their golden era. John's 115-year-old villa houses his golfing memorabilia and he maintains his lawns at close to golf greens quality. When he played a few shots off the lawn for my camera, a divot slammed into me and he admired its perfect shape. The house with its immaculately trimmed hedges sits across the street from the old UEB-Printpac cardboard factory where he worked for 38 years, his sole workplace from 1951 after leaving Horowhenua College. It was where golf might have ended for him...
Source: stuff.co.nz