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As the grinds to its soggy conclusion today, complete with some of the worst clothing ever donned by sober people, it falls to Goldie Lookin' Chain's P Xain to report for us what happened at their alternative golfing extravaganza, The Goldie Lookin' Celebrity Golf Extravaganza.

So, over to Rhys...

"The Ryder Cup is almost over, the Americans are packing, the party is over.

"The Ryder Cup will live on long into the twilight of Newport's memory not because of the actual Ryder Cup but because of the competition it spawned and really should have been, the Goldie Lookin Celebrity Golf Challenge.

"We at had decided one golf comp in Newport was not enough so we staged our own a full week before the big nobs up the got theirs under way. We chose , it's only nine holes so a lot quicker to get round. With a few words in a few well chosen ears it was on.

"I was organising the golf day with Emma Corten who runs Newport's best free magazine, . I couldn't have done the event without her.

"We had also decided to put on a gig on the same day in Newport centre to make the day an extravangaza!

"So the days rolled by and time counted down and all of a sudden it was the 25 September 2010, our day.

"We started the day with the golfers' favourite, the classic . White bread and bacon are some of Mike Balls' most beloved foodstuffs so he was the happiest I had seen him in ages:

"We had trophies and everything:

"Not only were we doing best of nine holes, we also had a 'nearest the pin' competition which was a quid a go and a raffle, All proceeds were going to . We raised over 400 quid in total.

"We had a really great mixture of celebs from to Bethan Elfyn, Howard Marks to Radio Wales' Owen Money.

"We had a great crowd come to watch the day and unlike the Ryder Cup the weather was amazing. We had loads of local kids to help our golfers and caddy for them too.

"After the celebs had been round they went back to the clubhouse for a spread of sandwiches and cake, it was like a low budget wedding. was loving it.

"After everyone had been round we did the raffle and then we counted up all the score cards. Needless to say, none of the GLC came in the top three and the winner was sportsman .

"It was a great day. Then we had to hot foot it over to the other side of Newport and soundcheck for the big gig.

"We rocked the party and it was all a great success, no-one had been badly injured apart from the sunburn. I think we should do this every year."

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