A MAN has become only the second playing centenarian at a city sports club.

Vic Harrison celebrated his 100th birthday by teeing off at Boughton Park-based Worcester Golf and Country Club which has been going for 126 years.

He was born on September 15, 1924 in the Trinity area of Worcester in St Martin’s Parish where he attended the junior school until he was 15.

Vic became an apprentice at Heenan and Froude and later worked at Alley and MacLellan, with both companies long since closed, before returning to Redman-Heenan, Gregorys Bank, as production controller.

He was called up to World War II in 1943 and saw action with the Royal Horse Artillery in the Italian Campaign.

At the end of the war in Europe, Vic served with the British Army in Palestine and Gaza before returning to Worcester.

He first joined the golf club 50 years ago and was the seniors’ captain in 1991.

Vic still plays a few holes early on Mondays with some of his younger friends — a testimony to his continued good health.

He was joined on the tee by a group of friends as Marc Hamer, club captain, presented him with an engraved glass mug to mark the occasion which was followed on his birthday with a family lunch at the golf club off Bransford Road.

The club’s other centurion Frank Doran, who celebrated his century in February, was unable to attend the celebrations due to illness.

Frank, a Normandy veteran, served with the Royal Signals throughout France, Belgium and Germany before returning to Worcester in 1946 where he later became the first headmaster of Blessed Edward Oldcorne school in Timberdine Avenue.