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bly went about 25 yards and then rolled another 15 or so. A hole-in-one wasn’t gonna happen, but a hole-in-four did. The distance from the tee box to the cup was 120 yards, and I had hit par on my first footgolf hole. The footgolf holes
at Mission Bay —$18 for 18 holes, $10 for 9 holes — tend to follow the general path of the golf- course holes, but they cer- tainly don’t adhere strictly to their blueprint. The 18 footgolf holes
here share tee boxes with the 18 golf holes, which isn’t always the case. At the Balboa Park Golf Course, for example, there are 18 footgolf holes that are scat- tered among the course’s front nine holes. When you play there you sort of zig- zag in and out of fairways. The idea behind the devia- tion seems to be to keep the golfers and footgolfers separated, but perhaps pri- marily to keep the footgolf- ers off the golfers’ greens.
of the cup. Most of us had such
Footgolf tournament at Mission Bay Golf Course
The greens are strictly off- limits to footgolfers — as is wearing soccer cleats, which could potentially damage the terrain. The next hole at Mis-
sion Bay wasn’t quite as forgiving as the first. Hole 18 is a 262-yard monster, the first real leg workout of the day. It was a par five that I knocked out in six shots, four of which required some monster boots. One trick I figured- out on this hole was that I could kick the ball bet- ter when it was lifted a bit off the ground by longer grass — this created an artificial tee. Actual tees are forbidden in the sport. One of Fajerman’s buddies, Hugo, a rail-thin gentle- man who plays goalie on a local soccer squad, told me that he always looks for a patch of raised grass in the tee area to give his drives some extra boost. I lamented the fact that he chose to tell me this on hole 9, the final hole we
would play that day. And speaking of hole 9,
it displayed one of the more annoying traits associated with the relative newness of the sport — a general lack of care to maintain some of the holes. The typical footgolf cup is 21 inches in diameter. This gives you plenty of space to drop a soccer ball — a little more than 8.5 inches in diam- eter — into it. The issue is that a handful of these cups are not flush with the sur- face of the grass. On hole 9 at Mission Bay, the cup seemed to be a good two to three inches above the surface of the grass on one side, since the hole itself was on a hill. It was most angering because I hit what was easily my best shot of the day on this hole (a bending chip shot from a good 40 yards away) that arrived perfectly, dead-on at its destination — and then proceeded to launch over the hole when the ball collided with the raised lip
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a tough time with this hole that Fajerman actu- ally ended up lifting the cup out of the ground a bit and slanting it toward the shooter so that it could serve the same purpose as a backboard does in basketball. I doubt this is accepted practice at Torrey Pines during the Farmers Insurance Open. It ended up taking me seven shots to sink the ball into that hole, four of these were most likely due to poor course maintenance. What was somewhat surprising about these faulty holes is that keeping the cups flush with the surface of the ground is one of the few tasks associated with the maintenance of a footgolf course — an obvious draw for courses considering a move to host the sport. I asked Fajerman how
he pitched footgolf to golf courses and he said it goes something like this: “Here’s a sport that’s a
very low investment. You buy the equipment and you don’t have to main- tain a golf green — which is the most expensive part of golfing. For footgolf you don’t need a fancy green. Our hole is typically in the rough. For a soccer ball to roll it doesn’t have to be like it does for a golf ball. There’s almost no main- tenance. All you need is to make sure the cups are in the ground the right way. You don’t have to move the holes like you do in golf. So, it’s low-invest- ment and it’s a whole new audience. They’re bringing in kids, families, and soccer players that would never come to a golf course.” According to a writ-
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ten statement from Tim Graham, a public Infor- mation officer for the City of San Diego, footgolf was introduced at both Mis- sion Bay and Balboa Park ($14 a round, $18 on week-
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