Mrs Laidlaw - "possibly" the most senior woman member of Chisholm Park Golf Club - celebrated her 90th birthday yesterday at the course.
She said she took to golf for the fresh air and the friendship and, decades later, she credited both for keeping her in resolute golf-playing health.
She played nine holes yesterday, recording a creditable 6 on the par 5 15th, even if "starting with a hiss and a roar, things went down hill a bit".
As she prepared for the unexpected photoshoot on the "horribly hard to play" 18th hole - and joked it would be easy to photograph her taking a putt because she is "a three-putter on every green" - she wondered whether she would be lucky enough to celebrate her next milestone with another nine holes in 10 years' time.
"That'd be the day," she said, tongue-in-cheek.
"But even if I can't play more than six holes, it would be wonderful way to celebrate my birthday."
