Golfer is staying alive thanks to Vinnie Jones

A GOLFER claims he owes his life to Vinnie Jones and the Bee Gees after his friends performed chest compressions as shown on a television advert when he suffered a heart attack on the course.

Alan Linton’s friends remembered the advert, which features former footballer Vinnie Jones urging people to give chest compressions in time to the disco classic Staying Alive.

Mr Lindon, 42, from Fife, collapsed while playing on Charles-ton course, near Colinsburgh. He was playing with Brian Enderson, Michael Rennie and Paul Pinkney, when he took ill.

Mr Pinkney, who started CPR using advice from the British Heart Foundation advert, said: “If it hadn’t been for Vinnie Jones you’d have gone ‘yeah, whatever’, but because he was doing it it just sticks in your head.”

Mr Linton said: “I’d like to meet him and shake his hand.”