Now-a-days sports people often have to have the latest, best, most expensive, most up-to-date equipment available. Norman holds one of the two bowls he bought for £5 in JC Patterson's (Lisburn) when he joined the, then, new Dromore Non-Subscribing Church Bowling Club in 1967 - and he still has them!
Norman told me that he'd have loved to buy the set of four, but he could only afford two.
Still, they've served him well - and long.