A Scot by birth and New Zealander by domicile. Stan Sutherland has come a long way from working in a Scottish shipyard to find himself living in New Zealand and writing books. All of them self-published and the best to date is Life’s Lessons Frae The Links. A book containing inspiring stories about golf and famous golfers.

His interest in what’s popularly called self-development was the driving force to creating Life’s Lessons... and was inspired by a fellow Toastmaster who suggested he give a speech containing 18 interesting golf-related stories. A good idea but of course too long for a 10 minute speech.

Asked why he turned his hand to writing Stan said he had always been interested in telling stories.

A reviewer of his most recent book writes, ‘His interesting style makes you feel you are sitting down chatting rather than reading’.