So what is the Five5s Golf Challenge?

Hi there,

This is our first blog, not just for Five5s Golf but for the pair of us behind the challenge, so please be patient! The pair of us, are Bob Warner and Andy Norris, we are mates from Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire. We've known each other for about 7 or 8 years through Eaton Bray Cricket club and have played golf together for a similar period of time. It's fairly safe to say we are keen but casual golfers as both have young families that consume much of our time! Andy plays off 16 and I play off a society handicap of 11. We have decided to take on a unique golf challenge to raise money for charity and push ourselves to the limits of our golfing ability.

The Five5s Golf Challenge is a golfing marathon playing 5 rounds of golf each day, for 5 days, on 5 courses, in 5 different countries and raising £5k each for the Seve Foundation. The challenge will start in Ireland on Monday 23rd of June and will continue through Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and finishing in England on Friday 27th June. It will see us walking more than 125 miles and travelling over a thousand miles door to door whilst completing 450 holes of golf.

We have chosen to raise cash for the Seve Foundation, set up by the great Seve Ballesteros in 2009 for research into brain cancer. The foundation works with Cancer Research UK raising funds for vital research projects. For obvious reasons this charity fits our challenge particularly well but our real motivation is for the families that have been through or are going through the pain and suffering of seeing this disease affect their loved ones - just like my family has. So our efforts are dedicated to all those families out there and hopefully we can go some way to avoiding more people having to go through the same.

If having read this you're interested and want to know more then we'd encourage you to follow us on twitter at @Five5sgolf where we'll be posting our preparation progress, further blogs on how we're getting on and who's getting involved. Hopefully from there you may tweet us with handy tips and advice about our preparation plans or retweet our posts to help us grow our following and raise the profile of our challenge and we'd like to hear from those who have been affected by brain cancer so we can dedicate our efforts to you. We hope that you may also find some useful advice from our followers to help your own game or inspire you to take on your own personal golfing challenge. 
We already have the support of Today's Golfer Magazine who are helping us arrange the venues and provide coverage on their website and magazine and we would welcome all the sponsorship, support and encouragement that anyone else is generous enough to provide.

Thanks for reading....and check back soon for some more info