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1. 1. Ron pins hopes on golf brainwave

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 06 April 2006 RON Bostock became so fed up with lugging around unwieldy longest drive and nearest the pin markers when he was secretary of a golf society that he set about inventing something more manageable.

2. 2. Protesters ruined day, says golf streaker

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 24 July 2006 PROTESTERS who threw paint bombs on to the 18th green at The Open golf championship in Hoylake, Wirral, have been criticised - by the streaker who invaded the fairway just minutes earlier.

3. 3. Police hunt golf club raider

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 01 December 2006 POLICE are hunting a robber who held up a WH Smiths in Manchester's Piccadilly Station with a golf club. The thief went up to the counter, hit a cashier on the arm with the club and fled with money from the till.

4. 4. Oliver on course for golfing glory

   Manchester Evening News, Saturday 15 July 2006 TEENAGER Oliver Harrison has only been playing golf for three years but he is already beating the men at their own game.

5. 5. Hotel boss Peter back in the swing

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 20 March 2006 VETERAN hotelier Peter Bech is back in business on the north west golf and country club scene. The 61-year-old, who opened the Marriott Worsley Park hotel and golf course for Whitbread, has been snapped up by Warrington-based leisure giant De Vere to be general manager of its Mottram Hall hotel.

6. 6. Golfers' gift for our Kirsty

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 09 June 2006 KIRSTY Howard has been presented with a new electric wheelchair to replace her worn out old one - courtesy of kind-hearted members of the Manchester-based Scroungers' Golf Society.

7. 7. Putt on the style

   Manchester Evening News, Saturday 05 August 2006 TENNIS has always scored plenty of aces in the female style stakes, while golf has been the territory of tweed and twin-sets, visors and varicose veins.

8. 8. Driver runs into trouble as deal to sell car stalls

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 29 December 2006 A MOTORIST got more than he bargained for when he advertised his car for sale. Instead of selling his sporty VW Golf GTi, Wayne Parker found himself é99.50 out of pocket after paying a company to sell it for him.

9. 9. Teenagers killed in horror smash

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 08 December 2006 TWO teenagers died and a third was left fighting for his life when a car smashed into the back of their parked vehicle. The trio were sitting in a Vauxhall Corsa outside a pizza takeaway on Rochdale Road, Blackley, when a silver VW Golf crashed into the back of them just before 11pm last night.

10. 10. Cancer survivor Gemma relays her thanks

    Manchester Evening News, Saturday 15 July 2006 A TEENAGER who credits friends and family with helping her beat a tumour as big as a golf ball is calling for their help again - in a 24-hour relay to raise cash for cancer research.

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