A MONIFIETH-born golf professional, who ran the pro shop at Forfar Golf Club for many years and was latterly a partner in a Broughty Ferry golf shop, has died aged 60.

Sandy Anderson was a well-known figure in local golf circles and also further afield through his former job with the Swilken Golf Company of St Andrews.

Sandy attended Monifieth junior secondary school, leaving at the age of 15 to become an apprentice golf club maker to Harry Leslie in the town.

A year later, he became assistant professional to John Stark at Crieff Golf Club, then moved to Turnberry Golf Club as assistant to Bob Jamieson.

In 1965, at the age of 20, he took up the post of golf professional at Rienbleck Golf Club in Germany, staying there for about 18 months before returning to Angus to become professional at Forfar.

Sandy was pro there for seven years before moving to a golf club in Shetland for a year or two.

In 1976, he joined Swilken as sales director and travelled the country for 12 years marketing the company’s golf products. A year with Japanese firm, Daiwa, then followed before he set up his own golf club-making business in Carnoustie.

He spent about six years making clubs before running the Barry driving range until it closed at the end of the 1990s. Then he and business partner Brian Melville opened the Sport Co. 2000 golf shop in Brook Street, Broughty Ferry, where he worked until recently taking ill.

It was while he was at Turnberry that he met his wife, Joan, who was a nurse at Ayr Hospital where Sandy had been taken for an appendix operation.

He is survived by his wife and grown-up family, Sandy and Clare.