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FRIDAY ~  PART ONE

'HOT' n COLD GAME

After getting up at some un-godly hour (i.e. before 9am) we set off for the golf from Donnie. The Greesham car then played the 'HOT' game while the less hardcore car played the "cold" game until Bunny gave in! 

Tour Game #1
The rules of the game are thus, for the 'HOT' game, close all windows in the car, turn the heating up full blast, then first one to open a window loses, the cold game is the reverse of this. When the 'HOT' car arrived at Brotherpool I don't think I'd seen so much sweat on four individuals since the day Dunkly's ex-birds did an identity parade !
Anyway its a great game - so try it out this summer !

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

After months of reminding, Dunkly had finally booked us our accommodation at Kenrath Hotel, when we first arrived it looked well blush ...........not

Tour members from da left Craven, Bunny, Ashforth, Cheesney, Dunkly, Hilly and Greesham - what a fine looking bunch !

Surprisingly inside it was very nice and conveniently placed for Gresh - as it was next to a florist !
 The owners Ken and Barbie were very friendly and 'understanding' and the breakfast was top draw (apparently). So if u is in Brother-pool and want somewhere to stay give them a call on 01253 626960 (they even wanted to pay me for this piece of advertising - fact!). The hotel also receives an Official BWC rating of 4 out of 5, scoring highly on preparation, VFM and discretion !

Also please note that although everyone in Brother-pool thought Ashforth (third on the left) was on his stag do, we didn't actually make him dress like that - it was his own (or his wife's) choice !

ACCOMO 1 TRANSPORT 0

Accommodation was well organised and the second part of the planning commitees job went slightly t*ts up, the evidence being: an 1.5 hour bus ride to the golf which was only 4 miles away, waiting 30 minutes for a train that was going the wrong way, waiting for a bus that never turned up and getting on a tram that only went half the way ! 

FALDO "he my mate"

After getting into The Open and Greesham unfortunately saving £10 on his ticket, we soon came to realise that golf is official the quietest spectator sport in the world. We all received several dirt looks for "talking" when someone was on the green 600 yards away ! But we did manage to get Nick Faldo to look up at us when he walked on to the 18th Green with an rather loud Essex "whup" !

MOMENT OF EXCITEMENT SHOCKER !

While minding his own business Craven, the Kraut, nearly got hit by some amateur golfer called Bradley Faxon (USA) who quite clearly needs more practice, the team then huddled excitingly around his ball. Here is a world exclusive photo of Bradley Faxon's ball in the rough

Is this possibly the worlds most boring photo? Can you see it?

Here we see our mate Bradley (below) looking for his ball, little does he know Craven has it in his pocket, oh how we laughed (quietly of course).

Any way after much 'excitement' he marked where he thought his ball was with his 'very special Tee' and dropped another ball and played a "great shot" "you da man" type of shot. HR then spotting his tee and extracting it with his teeth (below) became the proud owner of a 'Bradley Faxon Golf Tee Eurosteal'.........wow it don't get much better than this!

HR extracting Bradley's Tee and the actual Tee (not shown to scale!). Look how that American golf fan on the left looks on excitingly, "ghee that bloke, he well crazy"

It gets better, trust me ..click here for FRIDAY PART TWO