GOLF: After moving to Warwick in 1976, Gunter Nicklich joined the Warwick Golf Club in 1978 and as they say, the rest is history.

He has played up to four times a week, but at age 84 now works on playing one or two days a week.

Nicklich has won five C-grade championships and around the time he reduced his handicap to 12, won a B grade championship.

He now plays off a handicap of 23.

"I always want to be able to play golf,” he said.

Nicklich fits perfectly into an expression "putting as much into sport as you get out of it”.

For more than a decade, he has headed to the Warwick Golf Club on a Thursday to volunteer

for whatever needed to be done.

"You have to do something,” he said.

One of his biggest volunteer roles was helping set up a sprinkler system on the course.

"I invented a plastic tube set up to put over the sprinklers so they would be easier to replace in the future,” Nicklich said.

"I have been involved in a bit of concreting, fencing, cleaning and gardening at the golf club.”

His help to the Warwick Golf Club has also included some monetary donations but he downplays his generosity.

But the club members don't downplay it, they arranged for a plaque to be set up on course recognising the efforts of a popular hard working member who believes his week of golf doesn't start on the first and finish on the 18th or even the 19th.

His idea of club membership goes much further than that.

As well as playing at the Warwick club, he has travelled as far as Glen Innes and Inverell in New South Wales with the Toowoomba veterans, a group which has travelled near and far for golf days.

When he and wife Louise arrived in Warwick, he

was a builder and put his skills into building a

caravan park in Palmer Avenue which they ran for

14 years.

He plays at Warwick East Bowls Club but describes himself as mainly a golfer.