He is currently a member of the European and Japanese Senior Tours competing in 20 tournaments each year.

The family have continued to support and sponsor the event even though many of them have left the district.

Terry Gale’s sister, Colleen dePierres lives and plays golf in Wyalkatchem.

Donna Crouch, originally from Yelbeni, is also a professional golfer and coach and she and Terry Gale have both played in numerous Gale Cups but have not managed to get their names on the cup.

Many local identities have won the cup including Dr John Radunovich in 1982. He would possibly be one of the oldest winners still playing golf.

John Gale won the cup in 1954.

Ms Hudson said the field used to be enormous, with numbers greater than 100 and players used to be catered for outside and in the shed.

‘The size of our clubhouse definitely couldn’t accommodate the numbers,” she said.

“Hopefully we can entice as many golfers as possible from surrounding areas to play in the final cup and make this a huge success and send the event off with a bang, as it deserves.”

Terry Gale cannot remember how many Gale Cups he has played in, but remembers playing mother and godmother Audrey Bancroft.

His sister Colleen said most Yelbeni children at the time spent Sunday afternoons at the golf club as their parents were playing.

“We all pretty well used to swing a club around numbers 10 and 12 once the adults weren’t playing those holes,” she said.

Terry of course picked it up easily and with Dad always keen to help him improve, he was always encouraged to do just that.

“The men at that time were very supportive to any young players and so he played golf with the men at Yelbeni when he was around 11 years of age and was soon scoring very well indeed.”