Urban golf

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Urban golf, also known as crossgolf^[1]^[2] or street golf,^[3] is a game based on the original game of golf in which individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole or at a specified target using various clubs.

Urban golf is played without a traditional golf course, instead using street furniture as obstacles and targets.^[4] Instead of a standard golf ball, players may use leather balls,^[5] plastic golf balls, or tennis balls.^[3] It may be played on the street as well as in other locations such as industrial brownfields, sand pits,^[2] parks,^[6] rooftops, and river banks.^[1]

Urban golf started being widely played in 1992, when German golfer Torsten Schilling started the Natural Born Golfers group in Hamburg.^[1]^[5] It is particularly popular in Europe, where the European Urban Golf Cup has taken place annually since 2013.^[7]^[6] It also enjoys some popularity in Portland, Oregon^[8]^[3] as well as San Francisco^[1] and some portions of Asia.^[5]^[3]

References

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Pohl, Otto (December 14, 2003). "Far Off the Course, Golf Becomes Adventure Sport".
^ ^a ^b "Was ist Crossgolf?". Crossgolf.de - Urban Golf World (in German). Retrieved April 30, 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Powell, Drew (September 7, 2024). "Street Flighters". Golf Digest. Retrieved April 30, 2024.
^ Alex R. Straus (2006). Guerilla Golf. Rodale. p. 68. ISBN 9781594862809.
^ ^a ^b ^c "What is urban golf?". BBC. April 29, 2004. Retrieved April 30, 2024.
^ ^a ^b Grez, Matias (October 19, 2015). "Pitching into plant pots: Welcome to the world of urban golf". CNN. Retrieved April 30, 2024.
^ Mieczkowski, Colin (August 23, 2017). "The European Urban Golf Cup, a unique major championship". Pro Golf Now. Retrieved April 30, 2023.
^ Helmsworth, Jamie (July 11, 2017). "Portland Urban Golf Makes the Entire Changing City Its Ever-Evolving Personal Golf Course". Retrieved April 30, 2024.

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