Workers at the Royal North Devon Golf Club are used to battling the forces of nature in their line of work, mowing, trimming, weeding, and tending to the carefully-plotted sand traps, bunkers, and water hazards that make up the 18-hole golf course.  It’s the oldest course in England, designed by Old Tom Morris in 1864, so you know in order to surprise the staff you have to do something crazy.  Imagine their surprise when they went in one morning and found an overturned SUV full of drunk pirates in a sand trap on the fifth hole.

“Three greenkeepers saw it, went down there and saw two bodies in the back and rang police,” explained club chairman Doug Bushby.  “A paramedic came too because they wondered if they were injured but apparently they were just asleep.  It was a little more than a ball in the bunker.  It is a strange place to drive at night.  You can get disorientated very quickly.”

Drunk and disoriented in a pirate costume is no way to go through life, England.  Fittingly, the destination of the pirates has traditionally been called Westward Ho!, which is a pretty spectacular nickname for a golf course.  First you had to worry about mountain lions on the fairway and bears on the putting green.  Then it was accidental wildfires due to back swing.  Now, pirates are the next great golfing hazard.

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