SHOW US YOUR GOLF SHOT #1: If you can do anything close to what this guy can do with a football…we want to see it!!! What we are looking for are shots around the house, school, neighborhood or ???? that will impress everyone. We will be giving out prizes all year for the shot of [...]
CONGRATULATIONS KLAUS SIMIANER: You did it. The first CrossGolf visa on the planet. Way to go. this photo was taken last year while Klaus was in the alps. This is what I call commitment to the cause. Everyone in the cross – street and urbangolf world should get one of these. Heck, we could put [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
NICE CROWD BUDDY!!! Nice intro, production value and CROWD OF STREETGOLFERS!!! This is a great streetgolf clip because they actually took the subway from hole to hole. Of course they had some holes in the subway as they were traveling. Putting on a moving subway is a putting feat of skill. This was also a [...]
YOUTUBE PUTS MICRO-GOLFER TO THE TEST: Can you believe it. Klaus Simianer, one of our biggest urban-Crossgolfers in Europe also happens to be the king of Micro golf (pit green) As a result he got a call from Youtube. They are making a TV show and wanted to make sure Klaus wasn’t a fake. They [...]
STREETGOLF DRIVING RANGE: The 19th hole (http://www.19mtrou.com) in Paris figured out how to turn on new golfers by setting up a streetgolf driving range. They hit into garbage cans and shopping carts and clearly had a blast. How is that for growing the game of golf? It’s really taking the sport of golf back to [...]
. BEACH GOLF IS GOING CROSS AGAIN: Calling all urban-golfers the 3rd Cross-Beach-Golf-Trophy is on Sunday 6 March 10 clock. They are redesigning the Gromitz pier that juts out into the Baltic Sea. They are creating 8 hole courses/rounds. THIS IS GOING TO BE A TOURNAMENT!!! All Cross golfers and those who want to be, [...]
THE BOB HOPE DESEART CLASSIC TOOK PLACE THIS WEEK TO PRETTY SAD ATTENDANCE and not the greatest of high lights. Johanthan Vegas, a Nation Wide Tour stand out pulled some clutch shots to bring it home for the win, but there were no hole in ones or super killer fairway eagles. But it was the [...]
THIS HAS BEEN AN AMAZING WINTER. Since we began writing this blog the world of CrossGolf – urbangolf and StreetGolf have exploded. There is no better example than what’s been happening in Germany with Crossgolf-portal.de. They built a huge community. I guess it’s time to start some crews in the US. So if you want [...]
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 [...]
THE KORTRIJK URBAN GOLF SQUAD RULES!!!!! The urban-crossgolf season is breaking out of the winter dull drums and starting 2011 season with a bang. It’s course design time. Since the Urban Golf Squad are busy designing their course for their next event, we felt compelled to show their work and show what I consider the [...]
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 [...]
THE PARIS PRO TOUR MASTER CLASS. This video screams “STREETGOLF” in all it’s artistic glory “The 19th hole” (http://www.19mtrou.com/index.php) out of Paris, has to be one of the best streetgolf, urbangolf or crossgolf video crews in the world. Who cares what they call it. Their videos are amazing and this one is no exception. It’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
THIS LOOKED LIKE SUCH A GREAT VIDEO GAME…what happened to it? No one knows. It must have gone BK and left the intro site up. What are your thoughts of the Gorilla Golf style? Pretty cool in some ways. Not you usual golf attire. I think it’s got a lot of streetgolf and urbangolf style [...]
IS THIS STREET GOLF or SUBURBANGOLF? These guys have the right idea…But the wrong balls. Sure, they couldn’t afford the golf course, but to go to the store and buy crappy wiffle golf balls to play a marathon 3 mile long course is a tough one. I recommend real off-course golf balls next time and [...]
THE BEGINNING OF A VERSION OF GOLF: In 2001 we produced the first legitimate off-course campus golf event through Loyola Marymount University. This event began everything for the almostGolf ball. At the time we’d not even invented the ball. We played the event with a hollow plastic practice ball that we dipped in tool handle [...]
THERE IS A NEW ‘URBANGOLF’ KID ON THE BLOCK IN BRAZIL: Here is a clip they got on MTV Brazil. I suggest installing a google toolbar with google translation. It makes reading foriegn website easy. http://www.westcoast.com.br/urbangolf/sobre-urban-golf/ Review of urbangolf Brazil website. I like their point of view. It’s very much like what is happening in [...]
THIS IS WHAT I’M TALKIN’ ABOUT: Golfellas crossgolf crew of Stuttgart did it again. They got together for their 8:30am Sunday morning shoot around and cut a killer urbangolf video around the Mercedes World headquarters. Nice architecture and nice synchronized shots off the staircase. I think we need to start a Golfellas LA Crew. Your [...]
THIS PROVES THAT PEOPLE WANT TO SEE URBANGOLF: It’s mid November and this video has over 65k hits on Youtube in just one year. Why? Because people want to see new and creative shots like hitting from a roof top to a baseball field. Well, guess what, you can do it too. You may not [...]
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