GOLFER Brad Fortescue likes to take a challenge to the next level, and he did so on Friday 16 December while raising money for Cancer Council’s The Longest Day.

While most of the 3800 participants around the nation were playing 72 holes of golf in the annual December event, Brad was upping the ante by challenging himself to twelve hours around the Macksville course.

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He played 120 holes of golf, tallying to more than thirteen rounds, stopping only to rehydrate via bottled water kept cool in a fridge in his ute parked by the club house.

Last year, Brad was not content with playing The Longest Day only at Macksville, so he also played at South West Rocks, Kempsey and Nambucca Heads Island Golf courses.

Like other The Longest Day participants, he asked friends and colleagues to donate to his Cancer Council fundraising – but in true Brad style, he again upped the ante.

Brad had his supporters guess how many holes of golf he could play in the twelve hours.

Naturally he asked them to donate to participate in the golfing-guessing competition.

He pledged to make a donation ten times the amount of his correct guessing friend (with a $200 guessing upper limit donation).

Brad’s motivation for fundraising for Cancer Council stems from his immediate family, including mother, sister and brother, having suffered from this insidious disease.

“My family is riddled with cancer,” he said.

At the time of writing, Brad had raised more than $5100 for Cancer Council’s research, prevention and support programs.

For now, it is back to work at his earthmoving business, Fortade, but one can bet Brad is already thinking outside the square for The Longest Day in 2023.