IF you are a golfer and you are worried about future hip replacement operations interfering with your game don't be.
That's the advice from Hastings Golf Club 15 handicapper Geoff Warren. Four years after surgery to replace his left hip (his pivot hip as he is a right hander) Warren hit his first hole in one last weekend.
Playing in a Saturday club day competition, Warren, produced his ace on the 145m par three 16th on the Bridge Pa course with a six iron.
"The surgeon did a great job. It certainly hasn't proved detrimental to my game," Warren said.
A livestock scheduler for Silver Fern Farms, Warren, 52, has been playing golf for 15 years, the past eight at the Hastings club after previously playing in Manawatu and Queenstown. He took up golf when a neck injury collected in a scrum ended his rugby playing days.