GOLF NOTES.

Shannon News, 16 August 1927, Page 2

GOLF NOTES.

TOMBSTONE MATCH. Next Saturday the annual tombstone match will be played on the local course. For the benefit of young players of the royal and ancient game, we may state that a tombstone match need have no terrors even for the most feeble. There need not be any long lines of professional mourners burdened under loads of floral wreaths. But each player will be asked to write his own epitaph on his tombstone, wlpch will consist of a piece of board about twelve inches long and from two to six inches wide. This he will plant in the ground level with the finish of his final stroke, and directly on the fairway. The tombstone nearest to No. 9 hole will be the winner. Each player, before he starts, will be assigned the number of strokes he is to take. These will be set according, in some mea. sure, to the handicaps. For the nine holes which will constitute the tombstone round, bogey for the nine holes plus half a players'’ handicap will be somewhere in the vicinity of the strokes each player will be given—although the handicappers will not stick strictly to this. Play is to commence as early as possible. Each players is to provide himself with a tombstone. The best epitaphs are to be selected at end of game.