THEY were famously banned from one of Oxfordshire’s top golf clubs for “damaging” the sport’s reputation.

But the glamorous Eye Candy Caddies – who promise to make golf gorgeous – are returning to the county for a charity fun day.

They will host the event at Studley Wood Golf Club on Monday, June 6, to raise money for Oxfordshire-based Souls and Shadows Foundation, which helps terminally ill patients through music therapy.

The Eye Candy Caddies company offers golfers the chance to play 18 holes with a model, who will carry their bag and rake the bunkers.

The company’s managing director Rebecca Keen urged people to sign up for the fun day.

She said: “We train male and female models in golf etiquette and dress them in attractive golf attire. They specialise in corporate, charity and society golf days.

“This really will be a great golfing day to remember and we would love Oxford golfers to come and join us and get involved.

“You can participate as an individual, or put your own team together and have some fun while raising money for this very worthwhile cause.”

After the tournament the club will host an awards dinner, with a selection of auction prizes including a cookery course.

In 2009 the caddies hit the headlines when they were banned from The Oxfordshire, which has previously hosted the Benson and Hedges Open.

Speaking then, course spokesman Toby Guise said: “Exploiting outmoded notions of golf as a male bastion is not ‘just a bit of fun’. It damages the reputation of the sport as a whole as well as its appeal to members of the younger generation of either sex.”

The Souls and Shadows Foundation was set up in March 2007 in memory of Caspar Barlow-Olsen, who died in December 2006, aged 33, from an brain tumour.

He had received music therapy at Sobell House, the hospice at the Churchill Hospital, and wanted others to benefit from the same treatment.

Bob Heath, the music therapist at Sobell House funded by the Souls and Shadows Foundation, said: “It’s nice to hear that this golf event will be raising money for our work.

“I worked with Caspar and saw the powerful effect the therapy had on him. It is very important to make sure other people have access to the programme.”

dhearn@oxfordmail.co.uk Tickets cost £60 per person, or £35 for the awards dinner.

For more information, see the Eye Candy Caddies website.