Golf has got a pretty dodgy reputation in cutting edge comedy circles thanks to the likes of Tarby and Brucie, but that may all be about to change. Yesterday at the Edinburgh Festival your brave blogger took part in the inaugural Comedians versus Critics Golf Tournament at Dalmahoy Golf Club, just outside the city, arranged by Visit Scotland. Well, it was called Comedians v Critics, but a number of critics bottled out so their places were taken by various management and venue-running types who were pretty nifty with a club and glad to escape the Fringe Festival frenzy for a morning.

Heading up the comedians' team was pocket dynamo Rhona Cameron who proved to be excellent from tee to green. Having grown up in Scotland where golf is compulsory probably helped, but she has really concentrated on her game in recent years and it showed. For Cameron golf is the absolute opposite to performing. Onstage she requires an audience, on the green she hated being watched, but was a trouper throughout. I'd like to see Tiger Woods do as well onstage at the Gilded Balloon in front of a crowd of beery Scots.

While Cameron looked the part, sporting a golfing cap and even bringing her own clubs, my opponent Dan Clark looked like he'd just arrived from a Victorian Gentleman's Club and was far too smart. But that might just be a grudge on my part. I was two holes up with two to play when Clark got his act together, avoided taking up residence in the chasm-like bunkers and won both remaining holes to draw the game.

Miles Jupp was pretty useful too, having played a bit before and Mackenzie Taylor started off hacking away but ended like a pro - not surprising as it turned out over tea later that he had been a very promising teenager, who was sadly sidetracked and corrupted by the comedy world. Once a good golfer, always a good golfer. As for me, once a hacker, always a hacker.

Oh, and by the way, the Critics won, but let's not gloat, the comedians will probably get their revenge in 2008.