From leprechauns and Union Jack plus fours to Uncle Sam beards, rival supporters roared on the world's top golfers at the Medina Country Club in Chicago.

Googling a runner Plus Fours 3.20 Kempton Plus fours are breeches or trousers that extend 4 inches below the knee (and thus four inches longer than traditional knickerbockers, hence the name).

Their forerunner was devised almost a century ago in the guise of the Plus Fours Routefinder, which was designed to be worn on the wrist.

The crook sported a golf glove, cap, polo shirt, plus fours and spiked shoes when he raided a branch of the Bradford and Bingley on Friday.

But there he was in McKenzie's show, fleshed out with eerie naturalism in a group of colored-pencil portraits that depict him posing rakishly in plus fours and trench coat.

Freddie Valenti,a former European Tour player attached to Pryors Hayes,joined with three friends to play dressed in plus fours and jackets, shirts and ties, using old hickory clubs and,in the absence of any gutta perch a golf balls, the old small sized Dunlop 65s.

Within each carrier route, there may be several ZIP plus fours (meaning a household broken down by ZIP codes with four-digit extentions).

Having failed to get into the Paddy Power Chase at Leopardstown two Decembers ago, the Plus Fours Syndicate's stayer missed the cut again in this season's Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse, in which four horses were withdrawn on the day of the race.

It may come as a surprise that golfers are not besieged by sex-starved women; such is the attractiveness of a man in plus fours and a Pringle jumper.