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Urban golf, also known as crossgolf or street golf, 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. Instead of a standard golf ball, players may use leather balls, plastic golf balls, or tennis balls. It may be played on the street as well as in other locations such as industrial brownfields, sand pits, parks, rooftops, and river banks.

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

References

1. ^ Pohl, Otto (December 14, 2003). "Far Off the Course, Golf Becomes Adventure Sport".
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3. ^ Powell, Drew (September 7, 2024). "Street Flighters". Golf Digest. Retrieved April 30, 2024.
4. Alex R. Straus (2006). Guerilla Golf. Rodale. p. 68. ISBN 9781594862809.
5. ^ "What is urban golf?". BBC. April 29, 2004. Retrieved April 30, 2024.
6. ^ Grez, Matias (October 19, 2015). "Pitching into plant pots: Welcome to the world of urban golf". CNN. Retrieved April 30, 2024.
7. Mieczkowski, Colin (August 23, 2017). "The European Urban Golf Cup, a unique major championship". Pro Golf Now. Retrieved April 30, 2023.
8. 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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