MICHAEL Hunt scored a course record eight under par 62 at the Marsden Park Memorial Open singles contest on Sunday -- but was later disqualified from the competition.
The 22-year-old Burnley player turned up for the event after it had started but was given his card by Eva Pinder and told to go out on to the first tee to ask organiser Trevor Dickinson if he could play.
Dickinson had earlier refused entry to another golfer because he wanted the competition to remain threeball.
But he allowed Hunt to play his round.
After winning the event -- and setting a new course record -- Marsden Park chiefs said Hunt's score could not be counted.
"I was gutted," said Hunt, who is the current ELGA champion. "As far as I am concerned I have done nothing wrong and the score should count.
"At the first tee Trevor said we would find out later if I was in.
"I don't want the prize because that is already somebody else's now but I want it to count towards my handicap and it would be nice if the course record stood.
"But I will go back there and I will break it again, with 61 or 60 next time."
Incredibly, Hunt had already been disqualified from another competition on the same day.
He had done an 'Ian Woosnam' at the Burnley Texas Scramble and was disqualified after admitting to having an extra club in his bag.
That is when he decided to enter the Marsden Park competition -- which he won last year.
Organiser Dickinson was furious when the Lancashire Evening Telegraph contacted him about the fiasco.
"Michael had been disqualified at Burnley that morning and he said 'what can I go and win now?' and he came over here.
"If he had turned up 10 minutes earlier, fine, but he turned up at 1.39pm when we were teeing off at 2.20pm.
"I told him he couldn't enter but that he could walk round and have a round of golf with us.
"He didn't pay and he marked his own card. He wasn't entered and his score can't count."
Of the Burnley event, which Hunt would have come fourth in, he said: "I went back and told them I had an extra club in my bag and they disqualified me," he said.
"Other people have said they wouldn't have said anything but it's cheating, I had to tell them.
"I couldn't have accepted the prize knowing I'd had an extra wedge in my bag."
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