A Hole New Ball Game: Introducing the Hot New Hybrid Sport of FootGolf Tim Walker - The Independent
go to original August 3, 2014

FootGolf combines the social aspects of golf with the excitement and skill of soccer. Competition has never been more fun and rewarding! (US Youth Soccer)

FootGolf is exactly as simple as it sounds: it's golf, played not with a golf ball and a heavy set of clubs, but with a football and your foot. The only modifications necessary to existing golf courses are FootGolf holes, which measure a regulation 21 inches in diameter.

The sport's governing body, the Federation for International FootGolf (FIFG), has 25 members, including the UK, but nowhere has FootGolf taken off faster than in the US, where there are almost 200 courses in 37 states, with about 30 in California.

Next month, more than 100 players, from countries including Norway, Hungary and Argentina, are expected to compete in the world's first Pro-Am FootGolf tour at River Ridge in Oxnard, which was the first Californian course to introduce FootGolf. River Ridge general manager Otto Kanny said the course had approximately 1,000 FootGolf rounds played on it in July alone.

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Monterrey hosted the first FootGolf tournament in Mexico this summer (Torneo FootGolf)

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