Mystery over 47 missing golfers

The Scotsman ^ | 7/11/02 | Gethin Chamberlain

[mgc1122]

Suckers!! Although we aren't any better at detecting these scams than the Brits.

[mikeb704]

Shucks, with a per capita GDP of almost $1,000, who would anyone want to leave?

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[Savage Beast]

When is Brigadoon scheduled to show up again?

Just wondering...

[Gritty]

Nigerians again.

Anytime you find Nigerians, you'll find a scam.

[CFW]

And soon we will all get a letter from some Nigerian who won a golf championship but needs someone to "hold" the winnings until he can be smuggled out of the golf tournament.

[mountaineer]

In my mind's eye: a bunch of Afghan "golfers" arguing that the AK-47s in their bags do not violate the 14-club limit, and that the rules don't prohibit ball markers made of plastique.

[mgc1122]

ROTFLMAO .. good one.

[PLK]

This has GOT to be a joke, right?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

47 missing Nigerian golfers?

Check the water hazard.

[RippleFire]

There are suspicions that some of the would-be golfers had no intention of taking part in the tournament but used the event as an excuse to get past immigration controls.

I guess Sherlock Holmes must have been a fluke.

[TC Rider]

Surely they are all looking for the millions of dollars their late uncles had in UK banks.

[Psalm 73]

Um, alien abduction? : )

[thinden]

Mystery over 47 missing golfers.

maybe they're with the 87 missing enron exec's?

[harrym]

I knew it!!! O.J. IS on the trail and getting revenge for the murder of his beloved wife.

[dakine]

There are suspicions that some of the would-be golfers had no intention of taking part in the tournament but used the event as an excuse to get past immigration controls.

Uh, You think?

[battlecry]

My thoughts exactly...

[Bill Davis FR]

were they nigerian christians or nigerian muslims????

[pabianice]

What! Considering that golf is the national game of Nigeria?

[Poohbah]

They were playing a pickup match, got into the rough at Worcestershire-on-Thames, and then got eaten by the local wildlife. (You have to SEE the rough at Worcestershire-on-Thames to believe it, dude. That cockroach would bite your head off, man--you need an unlicensed nuclear accelerator to kill it.)