Defending champion, Nicolas Colsaerts has had to arrange for his mother to make a mercy dash to Bulgaria with a spare set of golf clubs for his defendce of this week’s Volvo World Match-Play Champion.

Colsaerts was all set to travel Monday morning from Brussels to Varna in Bulgaria but found himself caught up in a baggage handlers strike at Brussels Airport.

Belgian’s Nicolas Colsaerts with 2012 Volvo World Match-Play title

While the Belgian was able to make alternate flying arrangements he is unsure when his luggage and clubs will be released.

Colsaerts later Tweeted:  “Does somebody know someone from Brussels Airport or SN Brussels Airlines to make possible that my people would have access to the luggage and take them back. Somebody would then travel from Paris or Amsterdam to bring them to me!

“How can you be unlucky defending a world Title”.

So Colsaerts mother, Danielle, is now travelling from Paris to Bulgaria early Tuesday morning with clothing and a back-up set of clubs for his Ryder Cup winning son.

Colsaerts is among 24 players from 15 different countries set to create European Tour history in being the first to tee-up in a major golf tournament in Bulgaria.

The Gary Player designed Thracian Cliffs golf course, and among just eight in the former Soviet State, is laid out along the Black Sea shoreline has been labeled the ‘Pebble Beach of Europe’.

Eleven PGA Tour players competing in this week’s Euro 3m event, including Graeme McDowell and winner of the 2010 US Open at Pebble Beach, climbed aboard two helicopters today (MON) for a flyover of the spectacular cliff top course.

However the privilege of being the first to play the course belonged to Welshman Jamie Donaldson, and the reigning Irish Open and Abu Dhabi HSBC champion.