<p><span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: #f9f9f9;">Have you ever wondered what you were really capable of?</span></p> <p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #008000;">Have you ever felt that if you<em style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">&nbsp;really</em>&nbsp;focussed on 1 thing to the best of your ability you could achieve great things?</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #008000;">Have you ever done anything about those thoughts?</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #008000;">I did.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #008000;">On the 2nd February 2011 I decided to quit a tough job that I had been doing many years to attempt to realise a pipe dream. Having finished work at the end of April, I married Lindsay in May and my challenge then started on Monday 6th June.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #008000;">Within 12 months of the start of my challenge I aim to achieve an official UK golf handicap of zero.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #008000;">I have never before had a golf handicap.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #008000;">I have never played regularly more than once a week.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #008000;">I have not been a member of any golf club since I was 12 years old. I am now 38.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #008000;">Think I can do it?</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #008000;">(To the best of my knowledge, nobody else has)</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #008000;">Think I&rsquo;m nuts?</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #008000;">Whatever happens I intend to have the most exciting, challenging and interesting year of my life so far.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 22px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong><span style="color: #008000;"><a title="Click to visit ParFromAfar.com" href="http://parfromafar.com/">You can follow my trials and tribulations daily at parfromafar.com</a></span></strong></p> </p> <p><span style="color: #008000;">Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. 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