Enjoying the chairman's hospitality on the back of his £1.5 million purse from the last golf tour event of 2009 was Lee Westwood.
He lives in the county at Worksop and also occasionally pops in at Doncaster and at Headingley Carnegie where he likes his rugby league after having former Great Britain and Wigan full-back Steve Hampson as his personal trainer.
I was dying to ask him if he had cashed his £1.5m cheque with the prize money coming from the Dubai Open in case it had bounced – trust you have seen the news – but thought better of it, in case he hadn't my dry sense of humour!
Another guest was Paul Hart who had been sacked by Portsmouth earlier in the week. He is, of course, a former Nottingham Forest player and manager and was also manager and player at Leeds United. In fact when he was involved at Elland Road he lived west of Halifax between Triangle and Ripponden.
In the guest room was Northern Ireland manager Nigel Worthington and his good lady, and John Barnwell, who played for Forest and managed Notts County.
He is now the CEO of the Professional Managers Association, the man who, along with his staff, helps managers when they are put out of work.
They help the managers on the legal side of things, help them to find work and also circulate their names to the likes of Sky, BBC, ITV and national and local radio stations for work as summarisers or studio guests, plus the Press Association to work as match day statisticians – all well paid posts until the CV and interview is successful again at another club.
I also bumped into my old pal Ken Smales, 82, the former Yorkshire CCC and Nottinghamshire CCC batsman who was secretary at Forest when the late Brian Clough was manager.
I will go down in history, along with Ken, for being the only two men to ever get the opportunity to put a professional rugby league exhibition match on at the City Ground.
Over 4,000 came on a rainy day in 1982 to watch Cardiff City Blue Dragons play Hull Kingston Rovers.
I had BBC TV commentator Ray French explaining the rules and giving out the try scorers and goalkickers. Ray, himself, is 70 later this month and has now stood down to be the BBC's second commentator to Dave Woods who also commentates on UEFA soccer cup ties for Five.

l There appears to be some turmoil at the Crusaders Super League Club, formerly Celtic Crusaders until about a month ago.

They look set to play around nine of their league games at Wrexham's Racecourse ground and just four in south Wales where they put down their roots at the Brewery Field ground in Bridgend.
Looks like current owner Leighton Samuel is pulling out and writing off a fair bit of debt and new investment looks like coming from the Wrexham FC owner Geoff Moss.
They will certainly pull in some decent gates at the 16,500 capacity Racecourse Ground with derby games against the likes of Warrington, Wigan and St Helens, although the Widnes MP, Derek Twigg, is not a happy bunny.
He says that Celtic Crusaders got the nod over his club because they were foraging for the game in south Wales and not north Wales, some 40 minutes by car from Widnes.
I think it has come as a bit of a headache for the RFL in Leeds and what happens now with the extra overseas players they can have on their quota when in fact they are nearer Warrington, Wigan and Saints than Bradford, Huddersfield or Leeds are to them?
l AN amusing one from the chairman of Barrow Raiders, the colourful Des Johnson.
He is a former Barrow soccer player who has been converted to rugby league but has always liked his horses and has a couple in training with Roger Fisher at Ulverston, himself a former Barrow RL director.
Last Thursday Des was in Victoria Hospital, in Blackpool having a quadruple heart by-pass.
On the way to Kempton was a horse box carrying his three times consecutive winner, Living It Large – which just about sums up the 50-year-old Cumbrian recruitment magnet.
The first words he muttered later on Thursday evening to his sister Sharon when he came out of the anaesthetic after a seven hour operation was: "How has the nag gone on in the 5.30?"
She let him down lightly, saying it had run a great race but had been beaten into fourth.
"Ah, good," he replied, "It will have just about paid for the horsebox as they were paying prize money for fourth place!"
His rugby league club completed a Championship double of league and Grand Final when beating Halifax at Warrington and were £100,000 better off.
His intention is to get Barrow into Super League as the Cumbria county representative.
Des has already spent a lot of money and there is a great deal of support for the county to have one in the 14 or could it soon end up as 16?

l JUST happened to see a little of Lorraine Kelly's 50th birthday celebrations live Monday morning on GMTV after being called into the lounge by the wife, and who should deliver the `Happy Birthday Lorraine' from a dressing room full of players at the Dundee United club – her favourite team – but Danny Cader-matri, who lived just off the Clifton mad mile near Scholes cricket ground.

Striker Danny, now a dad, is up there after playing for Bradford City, Everton, Leicester City, Doncaster Rovers and Huddersfield Town.
Eamonn Holmes, who has more jobs than me, held his 50th last Saturday night for 175 people at Old Trafford, and Sir Alex Ferguson, guest of honour with his wife, flew back from Portsmouth to get there for the start of the meal. The cost to Holmes, a mere £50,000!

l FINALLY, I was watching Blackpool v Preston NE on Monday night when a regular occurrence happened in our household, the telephone beckoned.

It was an old pal of mine Derek Blackham who has worked for both Halifax and Huddersfield Rugby League Clubs. He was ringing from his home in Wisconsin and watching the same game via Setanta which hasn't gone bust in America or Ireland. He told me the amount of English games and coverage they pick up is great and so the only thing he misses from his time in Mytholmroyd where, with American wife Donna, he was a member of the The Good Shepherd RC Church and social group, was fish and chips and a good pint of hand pulled bitter.
He has also put me in touch with the people who run the Charleston Battery Football Club, which is owned by a dollar billionaire in South Carolina with English family connections, and so watch this space in the weeks to come.