ANOTHER PRETTY COOL URBAN SPORT: Having been married to a Sicilian for a while, I am definitely a fan of any kind of bocce. It’s a simple, easy, safe sport to play virtually anywhere, but here’s the catch. Instead of using hard, dangerous bocce balls, they are using a version of hacky sacks. But my [...]
A NEW WAY TO PLAY GOLF USING A FRISBEE DISC. This is an easy way to play pick up urban, street or crossgolf around the neighborhood. All you need is a frisbee, a club, an astroshag and some almostGolf balls and you can virtually play anywhere. This is serious old school pick up golf, but [...]
Tommy two gloves seems not to care I’ve been hearing about Tommy for quite a while. But it’s usually combined with a chuckle or laugh. The guy simply doesn’t have that well- pressed PGA style…but I honestly don’t think he cares. He’s what I used to call in cycling a ‘trainer’. In golf we should [...]
HERE ARE THE BEST MICRO-GOLF/PIT GREEN VIDEOS we could find. The first starts out with technique and goes from there. Our goal by the end of 2011 is to create a series of Micro golf events and courses using carpeting and some paint to create really cool courses for our cool little Pit Green friend. [...]
HERE IS JUST ONE MORE EXAMPLE OF HOW GOLF NEEDS TO CHANGE: I had to put this article up because it’s all about growing golf beyond the boundry of the golf course. Though almostGolf could not make it to the PGA Merchandise show, the word is out that they are the cutting edge of off-course [...]
MICROGOLF LEGO ANIMATION: Thanks to our crew at http://www.girlscrossing.de/ here is a nice little microgolf environment built of legos. This winter we are going to set up some killer micro golf courses and hopefully have a championships. I love this little guy. If you like action, check out Klaus Simianer and his microgolf trick shots. [...]
DO YOU THINK URBANGOLF AND STREETGOF ARE STILL FRINGE SPORTS? I don’t think so anymore. Our streetgolf buddies at the 19th Hole in Paris (www.19mtrou.com) have put together the first map of all the urban and Streetgolf clubs in and around France. These include a few clubs from Germany, Switzerland, Portugal and Holland. CLICK ON [...]
WINTER GOLF IS FOR REAL. They even have their own grooming equipment. Sure this is ‘real’ golf with ‘real’ golf balls, but it’s in the snow. They even manicure the course every day. Now that is what I call true winter golf. They even have a driving range. How cool is that? WELCOME TO THE [...]
Golf Channel Launches their PGA Tour Kickoff Sweepstakes give away: If you are hunting for prizes, start watching the Golf Channel for unique entry codes each day that could win you some sweet prizes. You can enter online at www.GolfChannel.com/2011-pga-tour-kickoff/sweepstakes/ or also via text messaging. The codes will show up during the Hyundai Tournament of [...]
HOW TO CATCH A GOLF CHEETER WHO STEELS YOUR BALLS: Don’t you hate it when you go to find a shanked ball on another fairway and some knucklehead tells you he didn’t see your ball, but you saw him lean down and snag a ball that was right where your ball landed. Now with Radar [...]
MY HATS OFF TO THE CROSSGOLFERS: This is a nice little clip for all those golfers who want to play but are snow bound inside their warm hovels. All you need are some almostgolf balls and a few clubs. Pick some targets, like a dormant dump truck and start hitting away. The one thing I [...]
How “Bogey golf” Entered the Golf Lexicon It seems the guy who came up with the Bogey Man must have been a golfer, because he lent his name to a golf score of 1-over par. “You better watch out or the Bogey Man’s gonna get you!” According to the USGA Museum, “Bogey Man” was a [...]
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DO YOU WANT TO PLAY WITH TIGER? Now you can thanks to the Dubai Desert Classic this Febuary 9th 2011. How cool is that? Now you just need to work on your game because I can’t think of a worse experience than to fork out $5k to get to Dubai, then hit a 96 while [...]
YES, ADDICTION EXISTS IN GOLF….but here are some tips on how to break your golf addiction. Of course you could begin playing off the golf course and actually have fun, without the pressure or the cost…but that’s just our opinion. Look at his first sentences. “A sport you pour time and money into’. Come on [...]
I wanted to put up this video because of it’s world importance. Yes, it’s not golf, but that’s the beauty of a blog. We want to provide our fans with all the coolest new clips and ideas, even if they don’t have to do with a golf ball. But wait, it does have to do [...]
WHAT HAPPENED IN 2010: During the past year we’ve moved the cause of all sorts of off-course, urban, almost, cross and street golf forward. We put on five tournaments in LA and saw another 25 worldwide. We also set up the OCGA website. We have even put up over 100 articles about all parts of [...]
. . . . . HERE IS A NEW WAY TO PLAY GOLF…INDOORS: The sixth MicroGolf World Championship will take place on Sunday, January 23rd. Stefan is the defending champion for the second year running. The Championships will be played on Sunday, 23/01/2010 , from 11.00 – 17.00 clock , as usual on the IMM [...]
If you’ve been around the golf course long, you’ve heard that the word “golf” is originate as an acronym for “gentlemen only, ladies forbidden”? That’s a big fat wives’ tale. Or, in this case, a big fat old husband’s tale. Okey, no, “golf” is not an acronym for “gentlemen only, ladies forbidden.” If you’ve been [...]
The Heidelberg Glühwein Cup 2011 Congratulations to CrossGolfportal.de for filling the field for the first off-course golf tournament of the 2011 season. The best part is that they get to hit off a 12 meter diving board. Of course is will be a day and glow in the dark glow golf event as well. . [...]
I KNOW, THIS ISN’T GOLF…but it’s a sick advert that would never make it on US TV. So you can make a dog that you feed play doh in his mouth and then pump a ‘bladder’ and he then poops play doh…. That’s just wrong. What sick little kids are you creating with this advertisement. [...]
NIGHT GLOW GOLF SESSION in SCHNEE GERMANY: Winter Golf never looked so good. We’ve all heard about all the snow storms. Well this is how crossgolfers roll in the snow. Being from Los Angeles, this makes winter streetgolf look really appealing. This was also a prototype test by our boys Klaus, Sascha and hp-Doc-Hornig of [...]
NICE STREET GOLF CLIP: You can find Los Golfos under urbangolf on Youtube, but this really is pure, unwashed, unadulterated streetgolf in it’s finest form. I mean they are hitting off what we call in LA the deck, the hard pan the flat top…the street. This goes further into the street than I’ve ever gone. [...]
NICE SHOT OF THE ALMOSTGOLF NT GLOW BALLS: This comes to us from our crossgolf buddies in germany. Nice shot of the future of night golf around the world. What is cool about this ball is that you can use them virtually anywhere you want…accept a golf course. Just think about it. There are 14,000 [...]
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