“TOMBSTONE GOLF”

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 219, 10 June 1921, Page 6

“TOMBSTONE GOLF”

TO BE PLAYED AT MIRAMAR TOMORROW.

"You've got to play golf, of course," said the secretary of the Miramar Golf Club to a Dominion reporter yesterday. “But you’ve got to write your own epitaph on your own tombstone. It’s quite easy when you know how.” ‘•Sounds easy,” said the reporter. "But will people appreciate the honour of writing their own death-notice?” And then the newest of golf games was outlined by the club secretary, as it will be played on the Miramar course to-morrow. "Tombstone golf” is not such a dreary game as the name would suggest. If. is. according to those who have played it in the Old Country, a fascinating pastime. It is played under stroke rules, and each competitor is allotted a handicap that amounts to three-quarters of tho club medal handicap that he or she usually has, plus 80, the medal bogey of the Miramar course. Players are required to keep account of all tho strokes they play. They must start from tho first tee, and go ahead until they have made the number of strokes that total their handicap, plus the medal bogoy. ft. is at this stage that the "tombstone" portion of tho game conies in. Every player will be provided with a peg; and when players have reached the end of their “allotted epan" they must place one of these pegs at the spot where their last stroke sent the ball These are tlm “tombstones," and on them must lie written the name of the player, who will bn required to write hie or her chosen epitaph on respective pegs No player can go on after "tho allotted span.” The winner of the competition will be the competitor whoso "grave” is marked by a "tombstone” farther away from the first tee than any other. But ho also is required to write his obituary verses!