It's a proper day of golf for this four!
A quartet of golfers endured a gruelling 24-hour marathon to raise money for charity.
Club professional Nevil Bland and members Bill Whittle, Nathan Lamey and Steve Hurst teed off for an entire day at Brocton Hall Golf Club – raising £6,000.
They played seven full consecutive rounds between them, totalling an exhausting 504 holes, writes Jamie Brassington.
Bland said: "I did the London Marathon and One Hundred Bike Ride so I considered doing something golf-related. People play full rounds of golf so I tried going one step further.
"I do quite a few things for the Birmingham Children's Hospital. We teed off at 6pm on Thursday and played through the night and finished Friday, playing non stop."
The players were kept going throughout with chilli stew and cakes served by members at the club's halfway house.
They walked an agonising 37 miles in total and lost over 50 balls (mostly in the dark).
Luminous glow-in-the-dark balls were used, provided by the club, which would "go off like tracer bullets", added Bland.
He continued: "It was great fun. There were some amazing views, it started to get light early. It was almost like playing in rain, the dew was that heavy.
"Club members joined us each round, and the halfway house was full of chilli stew and cake provided by our lady members. That kept us going, it was like a cake-a-thon.
"At the end we realised how tired we were. We had blisters on our feet. We thought this wasn't the most sensible thing to do."
Bland raised money for the Birmingham Children's Hospital (BCH) and Whittle for the BCH and Donna Louise Trust based in Staffordshire.
Lamey and Hurst both raised funds for McMillan Cancer.
Anyone wishing to donate to Nevil's charity fund, visit justgiving.com/nevbland.
