University Golf Match The University Match itself is contested over the course of two days. Five 36-hole foursomes matches are played on the Friday, and ten 36-hole singles matches are played on the Saturday. Ladies – 18-hole foursomes followed by 18 singles contested between 6 ladies from each team, with one reserve. Although the reserved play a match the score does not count towards the final score. The Ladies' match is held on the Tuesday of Varsity week as the beginning of the matches. University Golf Match The University Golf Match (commonly known as the Varsity Match) is the annual golf match contested
History of golf number of strokes into a target several hundred yards away. Some scholars argue that this game of putting a small ball in a hole in the ground using "golf clubs" was also played in 17th-century Netherlands and that this predates the game in Scotland. There are also other reports of earlier accounts of a golf-like game from continental Europe. In the 1261 Middle Dutch manuscript of the Flemish poet Jacob van Maerlant's "Boeck Merlijn" mention is made of a ball game "mit ener coluen" (with a colf/kolf [club]). This is the earliest known mention in the Dutch language of the