----AND THIS IS WHAT WE DID ----

We kicked off at Moor Park just on 4am, in the dark with flashing golfballs and feeling great after a couple of hours sleep.  Kindly Ian Wheeler turned up to caddy for us, nutter, but was a great help.  We flew round the West and High courses only meeting the greenkeepers on the last hole at 7.15am.  Then we packed up the gipsy golfing caravan (kierans range rover) with two trollies batteries, food, clubs, waterproofs and of course Vaseline.  Onto Sandy Lodge. We beat the members to the first tee, just, and after a good coat of vaseline ran off down the first.  As we didn't have a caddy here we were left to out own devices and realised we had missed 3 holes out, so we went back and completed them and finished the round by 9.15am.  At Batchworth Park we were greeted by our smiling caddy, Fred the dog, and his owner and driver Clive Weatherhead.  The weather turned grotty and we began to run into members, but Clive cleared a path using his charm and of course Fred the dog and we roared round in 2.5hrs.  This put us an hours ahead of time.  The Golf was going ok, Kieran had had a couple of birdies and broke 80 round the High course at Moor Park so was over the moon, Andrew had a dire hook going on and couldn't hole a putt and Steve showed signs of brilliance only to have a meltdown of form when people were watching.  At Northwood we were greeted by Alan Baker, fully clad in rain gear as it was peeing down.  We duly got dressed up and commenced battle at about 12.20pm.  The round was a mixed bag like the weather and the vaseline between the toes started to be pushed to the limit.  Steve suddenly wished he had spent more time reappling between rounds, fortunatly our spirits were lifted with the weather and we were onto Denham by 3pm.  Andrews dad and Elaine kindly met us to caddy. We had an enjoyable walk until the last 6 holes where Kieran began to struggle with cramping feet, clearly he had neglected some of the vaseline time while driving between the courses.  We passed through the 100th hole at 4.10pm.  Feeling confident we arrived at West Herts at around 6.15pm and to be greeted by a pint from Kierans dad, Andrew was the only one who could face necking it.  Strangely Andrew felt quite drunk for 2 holes but then the pain in the feet returned and began to progress to the knees.  Kierans hobble became more pronounced as his feet became more solid, Steve, who came late to the vaseline club began to suffer with bleeding toes.  Still we could see the finish line and we picked up our game for a stunning bogey bogey finish in front of the the assembled, very supportive, friends and family.   The 126th hole was completed at 8.40pm and we went for a well earned pint. 

A great big thanks to all who helped on the day.  A massive thanks if you have donated to the charity, it really is amazing how generous you all are and the charities will benefit enormously.  Thanks Steve and Kieran for being great playing partners for the day, we did it, 126 different holes, walked in one day!  (Thanks also to the large pot of vaseline!)

For the record it was a 44,000 yard, Par 504.  Steve completed it +130 over, Kieran +81 over and Andrew +79 over.  Had all the putts gone in we would all have been under Par!  We used 34 pairs of socks, 6 shirts, 8 batteries, 14 golf balls, 8 pairs of shoes, 4 golf buggies, 2 electric trollies and 1 Family sized pot of vaseline.

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