Hugh Grant

It is a trait typically British self-deprecating, and actor Hugh Grant has made a career out of it. In his portrait of the unfortunate Charles in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" to the simple bookshop owner "Notting Hill", he gained a worldwide reputation of being adorable, but dithering, fool who seems destined to take the more tortuous path in the quest for love and happiness.

It seems that often, her personal life has imitated his art. At 46, he remains a bachelor, often the subject of gossip columns, but ultimately unique. However, there is a genuine love of his life, and he is about to apologize.

"I am a good golfer sad," he said recently in Scotland, and it did the day he was courted by the game as a personal disaster, your life is gone. It's your personality and your interest in life. Nothing but golf interests me now. "

He feels that the admission of being a golfer is something shameful, and something he never thought he admitted. "I played for a year or two in my 20s and then one day I thought," I hate it, it's miserable, and I threw my clubs away. "He did not play again for 12 years, after which a good shot earned him hooked.

Now, after having worked hard enough to achieve a handicap of seven, it's an obsession, he can not deny either. "If there is a new gadget for sale, I'll buy it. I've never bought anything that was offered, and there is now an entire room in my house dedicated to golf equipment. You can not go there for the clubs and bags impact. "Does it help?" Not at all, "he laughs," A large part made me a lot of damage. I'm in a real mess. I want to flee. "

It does not seem too stressed, calmly sipping a cup of tea as we chat to the clubhouse at Kingsbarns, but if the grant is feeling apprehensive, because the next day he was due to tee off in the Dunhill Links pro-am championship.

Some of the biggest stars of the game - including almost all of team success for Europe Ryder Cup - will play alongside the best amateurs of the respective worlds of business and show business. And as you might expect from a PGA Tour event to top the drama will be played before thousands of fans and dozens of live television cameras.

But nothing he has never learned that the actor will be of any assistance on the first tee of the old course at St. Andrews. "In my world, you can be relaxed by taking 5. But here, there is a single dose. It's just completely terrifying."

All golfers can relate to his phobia. In most other areas of life, we can adopt a swaggering confidence - even with enough talent to justify such an air. We all know that the positions of seniority are not always deserved. Not many golf is a profession where the contenders are cruelly exposed.

In the wrong kind of business, cut, hook or - worse yet - a breath of air can be humiliating, and often the pressure of the situation may make such disasters a self-fulfilling prophecy. Colin Montgomerie - a former partner at Grant Dunhill Links Championship - has seen it firsthand.

"The first went to St. Andrews is the widest in golf and so everybody expects to beat. This includes all amateur, off any handicap, and it's hard. I see the shaking on the first tee. "

However, the chance to play with the best golfers on three of the best links courses in the world is not what any amateur happen in his head right. And this is virtually the only profession - certainly the only sports endeavor - where a fan can walk in the same shoes as the professionals.

"Golf is the only sport where you could do that," said NFL legend Marcus Allen. "If you've tried this in football, someone gets hurt."

With so many egos involved, the only thing likely to be injured in this e.