FootGolf!

[Golfmmad]

Don't know if this has been on here before.

Has anybody heard of it or played before? It appears to be getting quite popular.

Interested? Check out, ukfootgolf.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Yeah been mentioned a few times on here

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Seen it about. Not something that interests me

 

[fripnchips]

one opening round the corner from me so will no doubt give it a try coming from a football background

 

[HomerJSimpson]

one opening round the corner from me so will no doubt give it a try coming from a football background

Where?

 

[Wilson]

one opening round the corner from me so will no doubt give it a try coming from a football background

The one in Wokingham?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

The one in Wokingham?

Where in Wokingham?

 

[Golfmmad]

Seen it about. Not something that interests me

Playing it doesn't really interest me either, but just wondered what the forum thought.

 

[fripnchips]

http://www.wokinghamfamilygolf.co.uk/ On finchampstead road. Where woodcray manor golf course used to be

 

[rosecott]

They held the first ranking event at our place today:

http://www.ukfootgolf.com/uk-ranking-comps-dates/4587955142

I have, unwisely, been talked into a footgolf fourball after golf next Sunday for a fiver a corner.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

We used to play plate golf on scout camp. We would stick scout poles with a dish cloth as a flag all round the area we were camping and mart tee positions. We just span our dinner plates from to to hitting the flag stick and counted the 'shots' Was good fun.

 

[Whereditgo]

Very popular at the range I use, all ages playing with leagues and regular competitions.

 

[Oxfordcomma]

A course near us (Hinksey Heights) is changing its par 3 course to be a footgolf setup, opens next week. It's not golf, but given my past involvement with football I very much fancy giving it a go. Unfortunately, so do both of my boys, who are probably both better than me at football nowadays.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Cant think of anything worse than turning a good par3/pitch and putt course over to football.
Do you think anyone who plays it will turn round and say "they want to try golf properly"? Of course not, and you will have lost the real entry points for most youngsters into golf as a whole.

 

[Hacker Khan]

Cant think of anything worse than turning a good par3/pitch and putt course over to football.
Do you think anyone who plays it will turn round and say "they want to try golf properly"? Of course not, and you will have lost the real entry points for most youngsters into golf as a whole.

First thing is that it is not football but footgolf. And the idea of footgolf is not to turn people onto playing 'real' golf, it is a sport in its own that shares or has separate land on a golf course. As has been widely written about, golf is dying on its arse in some areas and clubs are going to the wall. So if you were a golf course owner and losing money then you would be stupid not to try something different if it could stop you going bust.

Plus it does attract a much younger generation to traditional golf, potentially increasing the revenue in the bar/restaurant. Assuming it doesn't insist you wear a jacket and tie to have a sandwich.

Of course it's not for every club and you have to be careful about balancing the access of footgolfer and traditional golfers if you are using the same course. But I'd much rather see the land being used by mostly young people for playing a sport than houses being built on it.

 

[Svenska]

Played it once in Ko Samui, Thailand. I wasn't aware it had become popular over here. It was very frustrating and I ended up hoofing my ball over the fance and getting chased by an angry thai lady (not a boy)

 

[Bunkermagnet]

First thing is that it is not football but footgolf. And the idea of footgolf is not to turn people onto playing 'real' golf, it is a sport in its own that shares or has separate land on a golf course. As has been widely written about, golf is dying on its arse in some areas and clubs are going to the wall. So if you were a golf course owner and losing money then you would be stupid not to try something different if it could stop you going bust.

Plus it does attract a much younger generation to traditional golf, potentially increasing the revenue in the bar/restaurant. Assuming it doesn't insist you wear a jacket and tie to have a sandwich.

Of course it's not for every club and you have to be careful about balancing the access of footgolfer and traditional golfers if you are using the same course. But I'd much rather see the land being used by mostly young people for playing a sport than houses being built on it.

Actually I know of one 18 hole course that has lost 9 to this modified football, and another pitch and putt course turned over to it. If that isn't losing golf courses and more importantly the easy entrants for youngsters to try golf, I don't know what it is.
Call it what you want, but any game that means you hit a round ball with your foot is football. Whether you have big nets to hit it into or a flag stick and bucket hole, it's still football.

 

[CMAC]

whats the dress code for this?





/wait till I get my popcorn

 

[Oxfordcomma]

whats the dress code for this?

Got the popcorn? For the opening event at Hinksey (which they're running as a charity day in conjunction with the glorious Oxford United), the dress code is as follows:

Smart polo shirts, smart shorts and socks, golf shoes with moulded studs (trainers, astroturf shoes and football boots with blades are allowed but strictly NO football studs or golf spikes).

So, obviously this really is actually golf! No other sport would require a smart polo and smart shorts, surely?

 

[Hacker Khan]

Got the popcorn? For the opening event at Hinksey (which they're running as a charity day in conjunction with the glorious Oxford United), the dress code is as follows:

Smart polo shirts, smart shorts and socks, golf shoes with moulded studs (trainers, astroturf shoes and football boots with blades are allowed but strictly NO football studs or golf spikes).

So, obviously this really is actually golf! No other sport would require a smart polo and smart shorts, surely?

Smart polo shirts to play footgolf? And isn't suggesting footgolfers wear golf shoes kind of missing the point? Or are they mostly aiming at the existing golfing population who might want to play footgolf?

At my local course the footgolfers just seem to play in their team tracksuits as it looks like quite a few teams use it as a training/practice session. Not looked that closely at what they all have on their feet but I think astroturf boots are mostly worn.