Gentlemen,
I have read somewhere,but cannot find the reference, that in days of yore golfers would be greeted, on the 16th or 17th fairways as they concluded their rounds, by a vassal bearing, on a silver tray, tassies and a claret jug. Celebrations if your winning the match, a drowning of sorrows by the loser. A win-win situation and a bellyful of port to boot. I can envisage this scenario as one wrapped up a round on the green of Royal Musselburgh Golf Club on a raw autumn afternoon! Now that sounds like a fine tradition to me and easily revived!
In more modern times, the late 1920's, The Craw's Nest Tassie or "The Tassie" as it is commonly referred to began to be played for at Carnoustie Golf Club. The Tassie itself is in this case a solid silver drinking bowl decorated with a Celtic motif …very snappy.
In a time-honoured manner and with a tip of the hat my good self and a golfing pal used to play for our own "Tassie" over the course of a year. Our "Tassie" was an old pewter pint mug, circa 1910, that I lugged out to Australia with me. We would share many a pint of good Aussie ale at year's end and never for a moment considered the gloriously high levels of lead we were consuming!
Bottoms up!
Colin