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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 June 1939, Page 12

Something of a golfing record was set up on the Park Golf Club’s links at Gisborne, when J. Crawford-Smith and E. Lovelock played 55 holes ' to decide the winner of what was to have been an IS holes match. The game took a day and a-half to play. The players were drawn to meet in the semi-final of a handicap match. At the conclusion of the round they were level, and it was decided to play a further 18 holes in the afternoon. Once again they finished on terms, having completed 36 holes in one day without having found the finalits for the tournament. The pair decided to play yet another 18 holes. As in the preceding instances, the game was hard all the way, and each hole was keenly contested. The last hole found /the players still unable to separate- on. match play. Finally it was decided' to play one hole, the winner of this to be declared the victor. CrawfordSmith won the hole, and emerged' th© winner of the longest match in the history of the Park Golf Club.