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Streetgolf: Back to the Original Spirit
Since 2002, I’ve been living streetgolf. Over 20 years hitting the ball in the streets, launching events in France and abroad, building partnerships, watching the game evolve, open up, get structured. I’ve seen streetgolf bring very different people together around a common playground: the city.
But today, I’m asking myself a simple question:
“Did we lose the game?”
Since 2002, I’ve been living streetgolf. Over 20 years hitting the ball in the streets, launching events in France and abroad, building partnerships, watching the game evolve, open up, get structured. I’ve seen streetgolf bring very different people together around a common playground: the city.
But today, I’m asking myself a simple question:
“Did we lose the game?”…
Read moreIt all started with a four-iron...
Back around 2010, our main judge, Johannes, was gifted a golf club and some balls. None of us knew what to do with them. Green fees? Not in our budget. And honestly, not our vibe. So, Johannes Handrock, Amos Douglas, and I took our new gear to the local park and started swinging…
Why do golf courses need to be green in a changing climate?
Golf’s old-school obsession with perfect, manicured fairways is starting to look straight-up ridiculous. The planet’s burning up, droughts are getting real, and yet some courses are still out here chugging water like it's unlimited, overusing chemicals. Not all golf courses are the problem, but the ones ignoring sustainability? Yeah, they’re the issue. The game doesn’t need picture-perfect greens—it needs real, playable spaces that work with nature, not against it. Time to rethink what a course should be…
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Photos: Reinis Babrovskis
July 2015, we heard a lot about Bubba Watson and his new ride called "The General Lee". Why this car is so special that we spoke as much about it?
The two-time Masters Tournament winner bought the car at an auction in 2012 for $110,000. "Lee 1" was the first car built for "The Dukes of Hazzard" TV show. You remember this car now?…
Over the past decade, streetgolf
has split into
two worlds:
Competition on one side, and free golf on the other. Free golf, at its core, is about the roots of the sport—the pioneers who weren’t focused on rankings but were just out there for the challenge, the thrill, the pure love of hitting a ball and making sparks in the street. Then there’s competition: a different game altogether. It’s not a bad thing—it’s just a different approach. It’s structured, it’s about counting points and every contest, wherever you go, starts to feel more and more like real golf. It’s a bit... predictable, even boring.
Competition on one side, and free golf on the other. Free golf, at its core, is about the roots of the sport—the pioneers who weren’t focused on rankings but were just out there for the challenge, the thrill, the pure love of hitting a ball and making sparks in the street. Then there’s competition: a different game altogether. It’s not a bad thing—it’s just a different approach. It’s structured, it’s about counting points and every contest, wherever you go, starts to feel more and more like real golf. It’s a bit... predictable, even boring…
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Crossgolf reaches a new dimension!
For the first time in the history of crossgolf, there was a World Cup this year. Urban Golf is world-wide, but now cross-country golfers from all over the world have met to fight for the title of world champion in Paris…
MUSIC | Horace Andy
Read moreFRANCE - GERMANY - ENGLAND - NETHERLANDS are not included on the list because the EUGC has already been organized there.
19NEWS - OFFGOLF CULTURE MAGAZINE is not part of the EUGC organization. - 19NEWS MAG INDEPENDENT POLL -
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