I don’t believe it! The not so serious side of the industry
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NATIONAL League One rugby side Nottingham had a larger crowd than usual for their match against Exeter Chiefs. But it’s safe to say they were not put off by a louder roar from the
A tree wood ...
A long-forgotten hook and an
astonishing slice of luck have
combined to create a unique trophy for members of Eaton Golf Club in Norfolk.
The story begins years ago when an anonymous golfer stood on the first tee and hooked his ball into a high hedge of conifers,
Meadow Lane stands as the extra faces were inflatable “supporters”.
were put in the stadium by Airheads, a Nottingham- based company who specialise in enhancing crowd scenes for films, TV, commercials and promotional work.
The firm spent hours blowing up and dressing up the supporters, who sat in the Family Stand, attempting to make them look indistinguishable from the normal fans.
About 1,000 inflatable fans
Harris, hopes the gimmick can help Nottingham Rugby continue to build their fan base. “As a local firm we are
really keen to support Nottingham Rugby in their quest to raise the profile of the club,” he said. “We want to encourage people to get behind and support their local team.”
crowd of 1,305 at Notts County’s stadium, who watched Nottingham go down 15-14 to the Chiefs.
Teed off with damage
THE heavy snow in February meant that staff at Daventry and District Golf Club spent five days cleaning up rubbish and repairing damage after sledgers and skiers hopped the fences to use the course’s undulating terrain. The worst damage was caused when a 4x4 was driven up the hill, across a fairway and almost reached a green before it lost grip on the ice. The driver appears to have tried to turn round, but slid sideways and tore up the ground.
used as a sledge. Club Secretary, Colin Long,
said: “We found twenty-seven estate agent signs, seventeen plastic inflatable beds, seven or eight inflatable dinghies and a large amount of plastic sheets and other general bits of plastic. There was also plastic and glass bottles and cans left all over the place and broken glass. We had to hire a skip in order to get rid of it all.”
Litter was also strewn across the course, including a plastic garden table which had its legs taken off so it could be
128 Airheads director, Lee
planted between the hole and the ninth green. The ball was lost without trace - until recently, when the winter programme at Eaton included cutting down the trees.
The inflatables added to a
As greenkeeper Richard Mitchell sawed the felled trees into lengths he realised he was looking at a cross- section of trunk - with a golf ball embedded in it. “It's an incredible find,” said Eaton’s manager Peter Johns. “It was pure luck that it was discovered. If Richard had cut the trunk an inch or two either way we’d never have known the ball was there. We think it came off the first tee, went into the
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trees and was lost. It must have lodged in a fork or embedded itself in the trunk and the tree just grew round it.”
The cross-section - inevitably known as a tree wood - was entrusted for preservation to Jim Cook, a past captain and skilled woodworker. It’s thought it will become a trophy and one idea is to use it as an honour board to record all holes-in- one at the short ninth hole.
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