FORE! These brave golfers grabbed their nine irons and marched on to the fairway for a naked photoshoot.

The members of Dunscar Golf Club dropped their plus fours to make a calendar for charity.

Each month features men from the club in various compromising poses in and around the golf course and its clubhouse.

The calendar was the brainchild of club member Shirley Cain, from Harwood, who came up with the idea as a joke at an evening function just over a year ago. Soon afterwards she diagnosed with breast cancer.

Mrs Cain has since been given the all clear and now some of her fellow club members have decided to take up her calendar challenge and raise money for the Royal Bolton Hospital’s breast cancer unit.

Margaret Sheldon and Claire Kirkman, both from Sharples, spent months organising production of the calendar before the men had to bite the bullet and get their kit off.

Mrs Kirkman also features in one of the shots — fully clothed — being picked up by the naked golfers.

Mrs Kirkman is wearing a red dress and plays the role of the “Christmas cracker” on the December page of the calendar.

She said: “It was the best laugh I’ve had in a long time. The lads just said ‘Yeah, no problem’, then everything came off. They had an absolute scream and it was all for a good cause.”

The club hopes to raise about £10,000 from the calendar, which will be used to expand and modernise the hospital’s breast cancer unit.

The calendars are on sale for £5 at the club in Longworth Lane, Egerton, tel: 01204-303321.