1857 J. Blackwood Let. 30 Apr. in ‘G. Eliot’ (1954) II. 324 If you saw me starting for a Golf match you would think my tastes..simple, if not even childish.
1926 P. G. Wodehouse ii. 60 I am playing a very important golf-match this morning.
1971 ‘H. Howard’ xiii. 157 He wanted to get away..because he had a golf match at two.