When you don’t read Irish Sports Page the obituaries you miss gems like this one:
Maurice Flitcroft, who died on March 24 aged 77, was a chain-smoking shipyard crane- operator from Barrow-in-Furness whose persistent attempts to gatecrash the British Open golf championship produced a sense of humour failure among members of the golfing establishment.”
Go and read the rest – it’s like a Monty Python skit. My favorite bit appears after the jump.
Flitcroft was interviewed endlessly. The score, he maintained, “weren’t a fair reflection” of his play. He had been suffering from “lumbago and fibrositis, but I don’t want to make excuses”, and he blamed the fact that he had left his four-wood in the car: “I was an expert with the four-wood, deadly accurate.”
You can all rest assured that ‘deadly accurate with the four-wood ins now firmly ensconced in my personal lexicon of catch phrases.