Ask any grazier and they will tell you a good working dog easily rates among the best assets on a farm.
Being able to control mobs of sheep with a few quick commands to a faithful canine friend can be the difference between a good and a bad day in a paddock.
But retired Norm Booth, who lives on farmland at Wartook in the northern Grampians, has discovered another more-than-handy way of putting his border collie’s intelligence, skills and passion for the job at hand to the test.
Norm has fashioned a 250-metre stretch of paddock at his property into a practice driving range and his companion caddy ‘Missy’ has become an integral part of a sporting pastime.