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Steven Conrad
Image Descriptions: Steven Conran was born at Lithgow on 12 May 1966 and moved to Orange at the age of six. In 1978 at the age of 11 he started playing golf and it was soon evident that bigger things were ahead. Steve lived up to these early expectations when he took out the Orange Golf Club 'C' grade championship at the age of 14. Steve had no formal coaching until he was selected in the New South Wales junior squad in 1986 when he came under the astute eye of State coach Alex Mercer.
From the State junior squad, Steve moved into the State junior team in 1987 and during that year he shared the New South Wales Sandgreen Championships played at Molong. In 1988 Steve moved into the New South Wales Senior team and also took out the leading amateur section of the New South Wales open. Nineteen eighty nine was to be a great year for Steve, starting out as captain of the Orange Golf Club team which took out the Eric Apperly Shield. During this same period he was a member of the New Brighton Golf Club team which took out the Sydney Group One pennants. In August of that year, he won the New South Wales Sandgreen Championships played at Nyngan, with rounds of 69 and 70 on the par 68 course. He followed this in September with victory in the Australian Amateur Championships when he defeated Victorian State Captain Peter Maloney, two up in the thirty-sixth hole in the final at Victoria Golf Club in Melbourne.
In October 1989 Steve was selected in the four-man Australian Team, which won the Pacific Championships at Tokyo, Japan. The start of 1990 saw Conran compete in the Australian Masters at Huntingdale in Melbourne where he won the amateur section.
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