No More Sunday Golf in the Highlands.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 9, 26 August 1908, Page 60

No More Sunday Golf in the Highlands.

Tn the Highlands, as might lie expected, Sunday golf ha* always been frowned upon—" Auld Lichts,’’ “Wee Frees,’’ “Big Frees.' and other varieties of Scottish religionists being at one in denouncing the “desecration of the Sawbath.*’ But, in spite of this, there were two or throe golf courses in the North on which a quiet game might be played ou Sunday. The golfer who made use of the privilege had to act circumspectly, taking care that bis paraphernalia were not di*-

played so conspicuously as to offend local susceptibilities. Indeed, he had to take his game almost surreptitiously; aud it is want of circumspection on the pert of certain players which has now put an end to all Sunday golf players in the Highlands. Not long ago there was a rising of the crofters whose grazings form part of the Brora course, with the result that the club had to face the alternatives of forbidding Sunday golf or having their course curtailed to such an extent as to make it useless. Since the Fleet began to visit the Cromarty Firth many of the officers have been in the habit of playing over the Nigg Golf Club’s course; but the popularity of the pastime among the officers doomed their Sunday play. The club has issued a notice that henceforth the course is to be closed on Sunday. Which means that now there will be no golfing on Sunday north of the Highland line.