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He also admitted burgling the site and stealing a mallet and power tools on the same night.

But it was a switch from his trusted blade to a mallet putter "to help him with lining up putts" that really sparked a change in fortunes.

As Tom uses a mallet to hammer in the homemade signs, passing motorists sound their horns.

Quite taken by Ayers's enthusiasm and delight at the performance, Hampton gifted the youngster a pair of vibe mallets.

"While wielding the mallet... a shock in my eye, I have to be hospitalised. Retinal detachment," he would write in a memoir years later.