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More than 120 golfers turned out in force to support the Charlie’s Trophy event at Dainton Park Golf Club, Ipplepen, raising more than £12,000 for various charities.

The charity golf day named after Firewatch CEO Martin Smith’s three and a half year old grandson Charlie Lawlor, was to raise awareness of Rubinstein – Taybi Syndrome (RTS).

The syndrome affects all areas of development.

The RTS support group will be the main beneficiary and will help fund the support groups bi-annual weekend meetings, where families with RTS members get together to both support each other and assist researchers in understanding the syndrome which effects just 1 in 125,000 babies born in the UK.

This year the beneficiaries was expanded , enabling organiser Martin Smith to make donation’s to local charities - The Action for Children Torbay Centre, Children’s Hospice South West, The Alice Cross Centre at Teignmouth, Chicks Charity , Wooden Spoon and the Newton Abbot Rotary Club.

“When we raised £10,240 last year I thought that was amazing but to raise nearly £2,000 more, was nothing more than outstanding,” said Martin.

“It’s particularly pleasing as it enabled us to give donations to local charities as well as the RTS support group; I want to thank the sponsors and many businesses and individuals who made the monies raised possible, particularly System6 Kitchens.Though the highlight for me was to see little Charlie walking around the clubhouse, something the family have been hoping for, for a very long while.”

With the golf day taking part on July 4 there was an American theme throughout.

The day included both a pairs and team stableford competition plus more than individual prizes up for grabs.

The main sponsor System6 Kitchens of Exeter put up a £10,000 kitchen for a hole-in-one, embracing the days theme Uncle Sam was in attendance, supervising the various events including, a putting competition ,Baseball & Texas Holdem Poker games.

Renowned trick shot golf maestro David Edwards performed and table magician Peter Baffles, entertained the golfers during their American themed BBQ.

On the course local professionals Rich Woods and Billy Hemstock helped the golfers by playing a shot or two for them.

The mixed weather did not deter the golfers who produced some credible scores, the pair’s winners with 72 points were Peter Knapp and Steve Seymour, who were guests of the Jelf Group, followed one shot behind by James and Rich Harbron representing Darnell’s and in third were Ryan Pope and Alistair Ross representing Genting Casino.

The winners of Charlie’s Trophy were the Jelf Group team – Peter Knapman, Steve Seymour, Darren Green and Terry Lee scoring 135 points, second were Darnell’s and third the team from Wollen Michelmore. Some interesting individual prizes were contested for including nearest the Bud (Budweiser) nearest the Jack (Jack Daniel) and nearest to Mickey Mouse, all with appropriate prizes in keeping with the name.

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History is filled with people who have been at the top of their game only to do something colossally dumb — or illegal — leading to a mighty fall or even disgrace.

But instead of disappearing quietly after their 15 minutes of infamy, some one-time giants have come roaring back. For a select few, the second act is more successful than the first. What’s more, society has embraced and celebrated these comeback kings, their previous transgressions all but forgotten.

Why do humans have such short memories? Psychology has the answer. People love a comeback story, said Simon Webley, research director at London’s Institute of Business Ethics.

“It’s part of us,” he said. “It’s about not giving up.”

Psychology also has some insights into why people fall from grace in the first place. It often comes down to a combination of bad judgment and feelings of superiority, said Hugh Arnold, a professor of organisational behaviour at Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

“People get big jobs, make a lot of money, they’re well known, they’re written up in the press, so they feel as if they’re beyond the rules,” Arnold said. Many times, they don’t realise they’ve adopted a cloak of ‘above it all’.

These characteristics often lead to a fall — and are also instrumental in why many people stage successful comebacks. In some cases, those smarts and charm allow them to become even more successful than they were before their grand collapse.

“It’s the same DNA that propelled them to these tasks that are helping them again,” said Joanne Henry, executive vice-president at Neuger Communications Group, a Northfield, Minnesota-based public relations firm. “There’s nothing in that DNA that says ‘let’s find a little corner and stay put’. They want to get back out there.”

Here’s a look at the comeback kings of industry — and a fallen food maven who might just be on her way back. (Getty Images)

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It's the beginning of another week, and that means that Microsoft has rolled out its new batch of Deals with Gold games. If you own a subscription to Xbox Live Gold, you can take advantage of several discounts running until July 7.

For the Xbox One, you can grab Thief for only $36, and all Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag DLC is discounted, too. Some of the highlights on the 360 include Ubisoft's beautiful RPG Child of Light for only $10, and the sandbox god game From Dust for a very low $3.74.

You can see the full list of discounts below. Asterisks indicate a game or DLC that's discounted for Xbox Live members who are not Gold subscribers. What will you pick up on sale? Let us know in the comments!

Comparisons of playing styles are always difficult, especially when dealing with different eras, but I think I'm on safe ground arguing there has never been a footballer more influential than Alfredo Di Stefano.

Di Stefano, who died on Monday aged 88, never played in a World Cup, but club football belongs to him. The world's two leading international club competitions bear his mark - one obviously and directly, the other indirectly.

Di Stefano was the last great product of the golden age of Argentine football, the 1940s, when he starred for River Plate.

After the big players' strike there in 1948 he was snapped up by Colombia's newly launched league, and helped get the professional game off the ground in that country as the star of the great Millonarios side. And in 1953, at the age of 27, he went to Real Madrid and changed the course of history.

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