Book description
When 46-year-old crane driver and former comedy stunt-diver Maurice
Flitcroft chanced his way into the Open - having never before played a
round of golf in his life - he ran up a record-worst score of 121. The
sport's ruling classes went nuclear, and banned him for life.
Maurice didn't take it lying down. In a hilarious game of
cat-and-mouse with The Man, he entered tournaments again - and again,
and again - using increasingly ludicrous pseudonyms such as Gene
Pacecki, Arnold Palmtree and Count Manfred von Hoffmanstel (more often
than not disguised by a Zapata moustache soaked in food dye).
In doing so, he sent the authorities into apoplexy, and won the
hearts of hackers from Muirfield to Michigan, becoming arguably the
most popular - but certainly the bravest - sporting underdog the world
has ever known
Scott Murray writes for the Guardian, the Fiver, FourFourTwo, GQ
and Men's Health. He is the co-author of the football miscellany
Day of the Match: A History of Football in 365 Days, and
contributed to both volumes of Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit?
Simon Farnaby is an actor and writer. Among his recent TV acting
credits he was Spike in Jam and Jerusalem and he played
Hamilton Cork, Pie-Face Records and Harold Boom in The Mighty
Boosh. In film, he starred as Bunny in this year's British Indie
hit Bunny and The Bull.
