1. Competitors shall enter for the competition through the secretaries of their respective clubs. 2. The competition shall be played by holes in accordance with the rules of the Lytham and St. Anne's Golf Club. 3. The draw shall take place on Friday, 9th June, and shall be conducted as follows: Depending on the number of entries, such number of byes shall be first drawn as shall after the completion of the first round leave four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two, or sixty-four players, and one draw shall decide the order of play throughout the competition; those who have drawn byes being placed at the head of the list of winners of the first round, and taking their place in the second round, in the order in which their names then stand. 4. Each game shall consist of a round of eighteen holes. 5. In the event of a tie in any round, competitors shall continue to play on until one or other shall have gained a hole, when the match shall be considered won. 6. The winner of the competition shall be the champion lady golfer for the year, and the trophy shall be held for that year in the club from which the winner shall have entered. 7. The winner shall receive a gold medal, the second a silver medal, and the third and and fourth bronze medals. 8. All entries must be subject to the approval of the Lytham and St. Anne's Golf Club. 9. All disputes shall be settled by the Council of the Lytham and St. Anne's Golf Club. 10. Entries close Thursday, 8th June, 1893." Truly perfect weather favoured the meeting, and some thirty-eight competitors entered, including two members from the Pau club. The drought that year had been exceptional, but the "green committee," headed by Mr. T. H. Miller, had kept the greens verdant, thanks to constant care and unlimited watering. The course being one of nine holes, two rounds had to be played. The chief hazards were "cops," or high turf banks, sand bunkers, and one or two ditches. At that time, when ladies' golf had not reached its present standard of excellence, the links appeared sufficiently difficult for a championship test, but now, when entries number a hundred or so, and players think nothing of a carry of 140 yards, which will clear the great obstacles easily, it becomes necessary to have a shortened man's course for such events. Although at Gullane, in 1897, the full men's links were used, the round of which is two miles and three quarters, with a few yards over, at Littlestone, in 1894, the course was not quite two miles and a half long, whilst Portrush, in 1895, measured only a few yards more than two miles and a quarter; the Hoylake course, used in 1896, was within a hundred and ten yards of two miles and three quarters. Great Yarmouth, which is to be the scene of the present year's--1898--struggle, is some three miles in extent, but will doubtless be a trifle shortened, if it be in any way possible.