"I must ’ave woken up with 300 mosquito bites the next day.”

Thanks to reader Phillip for Tom Cox's Financial Times story on K.K. Downing of Judas Priest fame owning his own golf course. Plenty of fun anecdotes, including this one:

He originally bought Astbury Hall, and its accompanying 15 acres, in 1984, around the time of his match with Def Leppard, but his dream of his own golfing Valhalla didn’t really begin to take effect until he purchased the adjacent 460-acre farm in 1989. Since then, he’s played golf all over the world, cultivating a long-standing rivalry on the course with both Iron Maiden and Glenn Tipton, his fellow axe master in Judas Priest.

What is Downing’s most rock ’n’ roll experience on a golf course, I wonder. “Oh, probably having sex with a pretty Texan girl on a green in Corpus Christi in the mid-80s. I must ’ave woken up with 300 mosquito bites the next day.”