"The innovative fusion sport of soccer-golf is helping Argentine courses stay afloat in testing economic times when golfing revenue alone is often not enough..."
Magail Cervantes of Reuters on Argentinians' growing interest in soccer-golf (who knew?)
The game's objective, like golf, is to get the regulation size-five football in the targeted hole in as few kicks as possible.
And...
Tees and fairways are set up to one side in order that the grass on the golf courses is not damaged.
"You don't have to be a good soccer or golf player, you just need to know how to kick the ball and know how to think - to analyse the course so as to not take unnecessary risks," said Ancizar.
He believes the day when golfers and soccer-golfers can share the course is a long way off.
"We haven't had a time when we were playing simultaneously. When we do these kinds of events they close off the grounds for our use only," said Ancizar.
"In reality it's strange that they co-exist. If a golfer gets hit by a football it wouldn't bother him too much but if a soccer-golfer gets hit by a golf ball problems could arise."
Curious about how soccer-golf is played, I found this IB Times story showing soccer-golf in action.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 01:16 AM
Reader Comments (12)
Seriously it would be good to see some pros, including Charlie Rymer, play with a hole that size. No need for a belly putter in fact putting would be reduced to a third of the game instead of 75%. Ball striking becomes everything with a par of 54.
Now I have to add kickball to the equation.
They have a small Football-Golfcourse in Austria, just over the border south of CZ) Pretty fun, it sits alongside a regular 9-hole par 3 course. Great to go out for a quick "kick-hit"
Would be nice to see some Disc Golf news once in awhile as well Geoff;-)) I know it's fairly popular in CA.
So why persist in calling it Soccer Golf? NOBODY else does.
That ain't right.
In AB where I did most of my disc throwin (in the mtns near Canmore...pretty cool place if you don't mind the odd grizzly bear sighting) they called regular golf "ball-golf" or (this is funny, yet true sorta) "Stick-golf".
I was proudly both, but pretty much sucked when I entered an Amateur Open division tourneys...kept on missing the cut by a couple of tosses and they once docked me a shot penalty because I didn't add up my entire 4some's scores up right, even though the hole scores were perfect...I guess hippy organizers hate math or were somewhat dazed and confused.
It's actually great for stretching out the other side of your back...just go easy at first and try to throw it flat and forward...spin helps too. Green fees can't be beat too...most places free or an honor system/lcash/lock-box for a buck or two...and I once lost a trusty driver disc 4 times...just writet your name or number on the bottom and lost discs usually come back.