Two close friends and a group of work colleagues took on a mammoth golfing marathon stretching 72 holes to raise funds to fight cancer.

Organiser Matt Holdstock, from Gravesend, led the unusual sporting challenge to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK.

The 36-year-old works as a sports engagement manager for the charity and elected to undertake the feat with the help of some golfing buddies.

Known as "The Big Golf Race", players complete four rounds of golf – consisting of a whopping 72 holes – and cover 26 miles on foot, the equivalent distance of a marathon.

Matt teed off the initial challenge with work colleagues at Shooters Hill Golf Club, near Welling on June 30.

He then repeated the feat the following week with close pal Chris Bassett, also 36, at Southern Valley Golf Club in Thong Lane, Gravesend.

Matt said: “I decided to do the Big Golf Race twice, once with Prostate Cancer UK colleagues, and once with a close friend, to raise valuable funds to support men with the disease.

"I was a little bit sore by the end but it was rewarding nonetheless."

"I was a little bit sore by the end but it was rewarding nonetheless.

"We are lucky the weather held up and we could not have been better supported."

Matt managed to beat his individual fundraising target, raising more than £1000 towards the cause of tackling prostate cancer.

The disease kills one man every 45 minutes in the UK. That’s roughly the time it takes to play three holes of golf.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Prostrate Cancer UK is encouraging people to form their own teams and help keep men in the game for longer.

Find out more about how you can get involved or set your own challenge here. Or to add to Matt's fundraising total click here.

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