Robert Allenby was supposed to be the MFS Australian Open&aposs party-pooper – instead the Victorian golfer turned party boy on day two as he got into the spirit of the tournament&aposs controversial stadium hole. Allenby, who was critical of the party hole concept after being heckled at the Australian Masters, wore bright red earmuffs as he approached the rowdy 11th green crowd at the usually refined Australian club. The big second-day gallery loved the gag – and warmed to Allenby further when he later hurled the earmuffs in their direction in what will go down as one of golf&aposs more unusual souvenirs. The expected distractions didn&apost seem to bother Allenby as much as he had predicted, with the two-time Australian Open winner narrowly missing birdie. He finished two-under for the day and is seven-under overall. “I didn&apost do it to keep the story going, I actually did it to maybe stop the story going,” Allenby said of the earmuffs prank. “I&aposm here to play the best golf I can and have a good time at the same time just like everyone else is out there.” “It really pumped up that hole, it really did, and that&aposs what we&aposre trying to do at this tournament, is to try and get a little bit more involvement going on with player-spectator relations.” The 36-year-old hopes the joke at his own expense shows fans he&aposs not the angry ant of golf. “I&aposm not that bad a person. Some people think that I&aposm a bit of a whatever but in all fairness I just wanted everyone to see the light side of it,” he said. “I just thought that was the best way to probably kill the story was to just get it over and done with.” “I won&apost do it tomorrow and I won&apost do it on Sunday – it&aposs done now.” Allenby will resume a more business-like demeanour over the next two days after staying in sight of the leaders. “I definitely feel like I left a lot (of shots) out there today. Two-under is a good score but I felt like I probably should shoot about four-under most days,” he said. “The golf course wasn&apost playing that difficult. I struggled a little bit with my swing but nothing outrageous – I mean I did hit a lot of good shots and I did make some putts.” “But I think all-in-all I really just tried to play safe and when I hit it into trouble I tried to play smart, safe golf.” “I know I&aposll be around on the weekend and that&aposs all I can ask for.” “We&aposll see how we go from there.” “Obviously the leaderboard is really bunched up so it&aposs going to be an exciting weekend.”