Possible Clues:

• Golfers seek course's trophy
• Confectionery leads to big belly? You find meat!
• Best place for ball to make contact with golf-club, tennis-racket etc.
• Racket's ideal location? Maybe hundreds and thousands given to grass
• Rooms, we hear, above entertainment venue -- ideal location for a racket?
• Heart of a tennis racket
• Mention of rooms fronting place of entertainment -- ideal sportsman's place?
• Best area on, eg, tennis racket
• Most effective section of racket perhaps fudges kitty
• First worries raised about European in middle of racket