GOLF AT NIGHT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10060, 3 June 1910, Page 4

GOLF AT NIGHT.

■ Already there is probably more humour to be derived irom golf than from any other game, but there are untold possibilities about its latest development. This is golf in the dark —not the bright night of the far northern islands, where the game has been played at midnight, but the common black night of lower latitudes. The explanation of; this almost incredible development is balls coated with luminous paint, so as to ba visible at a distance of twenty yards. Two members of a Manchester club introduced this weird novelty the other night, before an excited but sceptical crowd. The test was Interesting, but scarcely conclusive. Jt was demonstrated that it was possible to hit a ba j l in ,the dark, and not merely to excavate round it, and the players actually "holed out" on one or two greens, but unfortunately the contestants were by no means in the first class, and the "slicing" and "pulling" of shots made the task of finding the balls more difficult than it might have beetj. The caddies go tired of wandering about in the dark, looking for luminous spots, and the game ,was soon abandoned. The new sport is evidently for players who can play with an accuracy denied to the rank and file, whose wanderings and searchings are often quite sufficiently painful in the broadest of broad daylight. If golf by night becomes popular, a new edition of "The Sorrows of a Golfer's Wife" will be necessary. But may not a protest be legitimately made against playing out-door games at night? Life would be tolerable, it has been said, if it were not for its amusements, and this unnatural invasion of the darkness by recreations that already take up a great part of the day is not likely to ease the burden.