Golf Matches By Floodlight
I Golf by floodlight is, for the | I first time, to be tried out in the | I United States. A proposal has | I been put forward to run a series | I of professional exhibition match- | I es in the evening by floodlight. | i Fred Corcoran, tournament man- | j ager of the U.S. Professional | ! Golfers’ Association, said in an | I interview: “Floodlights can be j I carried round golf courses by = I trucks, making night exhibition | I matches possible. From that f I point it will be just a step to | I complete lighting systems good | I enough to follow the flight of the | i ball.” Henry Cotton is enthusi- | I astic about the scheme. “It has | I a tremendous future,” he said. |
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Southland Times, Issue 23954, 21 October 1939, Page 16
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