The dream of becoming Midlands Open champion, born in the aftermath of my victory in the Consolation last year, gripped me the moment we stopped into Cherwell M40 services for an outrageously marked up £2.50 Greggs sausage roll. Our arrival into the Birmingham suburbs coincided with the start of a particular violent downpour, and so to be fair the carpark did bear a teensy resemblance to a Monaco beach, in February.

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