"You Can't Prove Anything from a Score Card or the Fingerprints on a Golf Club."

"Tee Shot."

By Tom Robertson (?-?).

First appearance: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1960.

Short short short story (3 pages).

Online at SFFAudio (HERE).

   "Only now every move he made to finish this game took me that much nearer to disaster."

"GOLF," Winston Churchill once observed, "is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose." "Weapons," he says. Hmmm . . .

Main characters:

~ Graybow, Harry Jackson, Johnny Taliferro, Lorene, and Abe Joseph.

References (all are from Wikipedia):

- "the long fairway" (HERE)

- "Embezzlement" (HERE).

Resources:

- "Tee Shot" is Tom Robertson's only story on the FictionMags list.

- There's one particular Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot short story that also involves factors which figure into today's tale (WARNING! SPOILERS! The IMDb HERE) and (Archive.org HERE).

The bottom line:

Unless otherwise noted, all bibliographical data are derived from The FictionMags Index created by William G. Contento & edited by Phil Stephensen-Payne.

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