LYFAB – Live The Dream

Vision

In the early 1980’s a group of guys who had all graduated from the University of Nottingham in the late 1970’s got together for a game of golf and to see how each other was getting on “post uni”

At some point somebody said “Wouldn’t it be a good idea if we did this every year?” and of course everybody agreed – as you do.

However, one particularly determined member took the responsibility of making sure it did happen and of organising next years event.

Thus, the following year, the same group (maybe one or two more, maybe one or two less) got together and whoever was the organiser turned up and presented a £2.50 “trophy” to the assembled mass and proclaimed;

“If we are to do this regularly, we should make it properly competitive and so I have invested in this”

It was inscribed with the words “LYFAB TROPHY” in memory of events that took place during the final year at Nottingham of most of the assembled golfers.

And, almost every year since, that same group (plus or minus one or two) have met towards the end of summer and played golf for the highly sought after LYFAB Trophy, had a few beers, re-told stories that get bigger and more outrageous every year, and then gone back to living in the present rather than the past.

Until 2006, when the question was posed; “If anybody wondered what was/is LYFAB, what do you think they would visualise?”. The best we could come up with was an aluminium smelter in Wrexham. That prompted a thought that we could make more of our golfing relationship and turn LYFAB into something more tangible, if only we could find the right thing to draw us back closer together.

In early 2007, we think we have “that idea”, and as we develop it and the story unfolds we will use this web site to tell the story – of how we are hoping to “Live The Dream” that all us had at University, but very few of us have managed to achieve.

The dream of being involved in sport at a level that gives us access to sporting heroes past, present & future and using our combined experience, skills and knowledge to create things that seemed impossible to a group of recent graduates almost 30 years ago.