Wet and windy Werneth Low was hardly the ideal practice ground for Madrid Open champion golfer Derrick Cooper.
Despite a thorough soaking, the popular big hitter said he had been happy to turn out for Werneth Low Golf Club’s 15th annual charity pro-am tournament.
Derrick, who created a record when he shot 57 ‘gross’ in the 1984 pro-am, knew he was unlikely to beat that amazing score.
Five years on, he made a ‘par 70’ which event organiser Roy Gregory hailed as “a great score under such conditions”.
As he made his way wearily off the last green, a bedraggled Derrick said: “ I dropped three shots in the last five holes, but I enjoyed it.”
A shower and a snack later, he was driving to Manchester Airport to catch a flight to the French Open.
The Werneth Low tournament had only gone ahead after a superhuman effort from the ground staff. Twenty-four hours earlier the course was waterlogged with a further downpour making play “difficult” to say the least.
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