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]
