After years collecting bruises on rugby and soccer fields as a younger man, taking up golf was a godsend for Sid Sagdic.

Boasting a handicap of three, he's been a member at Carnarvon for the past two-and-a-half decades.

It's a place where he's built life-long friendships.

But now they're talking about taking Mr Sagdic's beloved course and turning it, of all things, into a cemetery.

The sprawling 45-hectare western Sydney site, which sits on crown land, has become prime property for a government maintaining there are simply not enough plots to bury the city's dead.

To be precise, at least 70,000 spaces will soon be needed just to keep up.

For a 60-year-old local with plenty of good years left in his swing, though, it's all about where this needs to happen.

"There's plenty land out we

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