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Just as a senior Conservative was telling me the party might be able to climb out the terrible hole it's in, news popped up of another of its ranks deserting for Reform UK.

I went into the hole and crouched down in the first cell off to the right.

"If you can demonstrate the value... and it's not going into a big black hole plugging a deficit, that's what people want," he said.

He was sitting beside a mound of red earth, carefully pushing a blade of grass into a hole, then withdrawing it and poking it into his mouth.

The PGA Tour takes two drives from every player's round from holes faced in opposite directions to counteract the effect of wind.