Over the course of a week, even the most avid of golfers might struggle to play ten full rounds.

But last Friday, Belmont Hills pro Brian Morris somehow managed to knock it around 180 consecutive holes in a 24-hour stretch.

The outrageous golf-a-thon was to raise money for Morris? cousin Lori Mello, who has been diagnosed with a very aggressive form of cancer which requires a significant amount of debilitating and expensive treatment.

The left-handed Morris began playing at eight in the morning last Thursday at Belmont Hills and in his 24 hours on the Warwick course finished with a respectable ten-round score of 932, including 22 birdies ? eight of which came during the hours of darkness when the pins and contours of the greens were barely visible.

Morris was accompanied throughout by fellow pro Darren Swan and was joined by a large assortment of friends and family at various points of the golfing marathon.

For the average player, even two rounds in a day would be regarded as physically taxing ? though Morris said that it was primarily mental exhaustion that kept him fast asleep in bed for the rest of Friday.

?I was a bit worried beforehand that my body would give me some problems towards the end,? a well-rested Morris said yesterday.

?But as it turned out, my body held up OK and even in the last couple of hours I was still able to make a three-quarter swing.

?But mentally I was absolutely wrecked. Even though the score didn?t really matter, you still have to concentrate and stay focused on what you?re doing for all that time was a huge challenge.

?By the time I?d finished I really did not have much left. Darren and I did our best to keep each other going, but it was still very hard near the end.?

With the traditional golf ball too difficult to see after darkness fell, Morris and his playing partner switched to special glow-balls until the sun began to rise in the morning ? losing only one which he dumped in a water hazard.

?The glow-balls don?t go as far as normal white balls so I had to try and adjust to that ? but it?s actually easier to find the glow-balls if you knock it in the rough so we didn?t have any problems in that respect,? he said.

?At night it was obviously difficult to see the flag sticks so it was just a case of remembering where they were from the 12 previous rounds and because I know the course very well, I had a pretty good idea of the distances even at night.?

Morris has raised in the region of $65,000 for Lori, who had to spend her Christmas in the US undergoing chemotherapy.