Golf’s oldest living major champion Kel Nagle will, as always for years now, be watching the telecast of The Masters later this week but it will be in unfamiliar surroundings.
He won’t be sitting in his lounge-room that overlooks both sides of the head to the Sydney Harbour where the walls of the room are surrounded by the memories of a lifetime in golf but rather in a nursing home in Sydney’s northern suburbs where the view out the window is far less spectacular.
Kel, now in his 93rd year, hasn’t been in good health for some years now but while the body may be weak, his spirit is oh so willing.