August 4, 2002
Sunday Times
Sun Microsystems golf marathon dinner
by Terry Murden

As a guest of the Sun Microsystems golf marathon dinner at Turnberry last week, I didn't expect to be standing in the rain at 10.30pm, squinting in the gloom to see the ball at the 18th hole. It was impossible to recognise the two golfers slugging out this last leg of a day-long marathon. They were the athlete Sir Steven Redgrave and Mission Impossible actor Dougray Scott.

Their efforts, to raise money for a children's charity, were supposed to involve rounds at four Scottish courses. But because of the wretched weather, St. Andrews was abandoned while lightning hampered play at Gleneagles. As a postscript, Redgrave left his passport in a hire car and could not join his family in Spain. For reasons best known to themselves, both said they'd do it again next year.

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