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The 4BR April Fool caught a few out again, but there will be real news of exciting developments at the British Open in the near future.

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Thanks to those people who took the time to get in touch with us about the shattering news that the British Open will be implementing a phased withdrawal of the adjudicator’s box.

It seems we caught a few people out again.

Real news

Our thanks also to Martin Mortimer who kindly agreed to be part of the set up this year – although he does promise us that there are a number of exciting pieces of news about the British Open and Spring Festival contests to be released in the next week or so – although not about the judges box!

the chief engineer Sebastian Brant was a 15th century German writer whose most famous book, was called ‘Das Narrenschiff’ or ‘The Ship of Fools’4BR

Clues

By the way – the German firm of internationally renowned architects April die Narr Konstruktion Ltd are of course ‘April Fool Construction’, whilst the chief engineer Sebastian Brant was a 15th century German writer whose most famous book, was called ‘Das Narrenschiff’ or ‘The Ship of Fools’.

The angry adjudicator’s identity will be kept a secret though…

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