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Luther King Jr. Rec. I was lucky to get acquainted with Mitch Anderson Sr., the recreation leader for Southcrest, who walked me through the compe- tition. There were three kids on each team and, at first, I was completely con- fused because two of the kids on each of the teams picked up their balls after their initial drives. Ander- son cleared things up by explaining that only the ball that landed closest to the hole counts for each team. The kids then line up and each shoot from that spot. This process continues to repeat itself until someone sinks a putt. The team dynamic was in full effect as some of the kids strength lied in driv- ing, while others excelled in the finesse of putting. At first the ringer of the


afternoon appeared to be a lanky teen playing for MLK


who had the toe-kick from hell. Not the most powerful boot, but his drives always went straight and seemed to roll for an eternity. Ander- son pointed him out to me in the same sort of fashion that a basketball coach would point out the other team’s Lebron-hopeful. He also chimed in with how, in footgolf, kicking with the toe can be a much more valuable asset than it is in soccer. He had a ringer of his own, though, in Juan, a solid brick of a youngster who looked like a line- backer in the making. His nickname was “Bulldog” and his drives were almost comically powerful for his age. They were often off the mark, but they always went far.


Bulldog pulled it


together about five holes in, and set the plate for Southcrest to eventually get a birdie on hole 6 (a short,


downhill drive with serious hole-in-one potential). He graduated to dragon-slayer mode for hole 7. The drive was a wretched uphill, but he managed to finagle one of his cannon blasts to land the ball practically next to the cup. The hole was a par five that Southcrest Rec annihilated with two shots — a double eagle. Even when I played with Fajerman, none of the soc- cer studs managed that feat. Southcrest ended up


winning the nine-hole battle 25 to 30. While head- ing back toward the pro shop, Anderson warned the kids to stay next to the fence that hugged the street alongside the course. Some of the kids ignored his advice and walked straight into the line of fire of a group of golfers preparing to tee off on hole 2. The golfers raised their hands in frustration,


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safely crossed the fairway, a couple of them posted up next to the golfers. After one of the players cracked a nice drive a kid chimed in with amazement, “Wow, that was like a home run!” This exchange dem-


onstrated both the major pro and the major con for footgolf as it relates to golf — it exposes kids to traditional golf (which needs them to survive), but it may drive golfers away from courses that offer footgolf. At public golf courses, such as Bal- boa and Mission Bay, the two factions seem to get along well, but it’s tough to imagine country clubs ever embracing the activity. “With the private


courses, I think the biggest roadblock is golf culture,” Fajerman explained to me. “By nature it’s old-school and reserved. I always thought of the skiing and snowboarding analogy. The golfers are the skiers, and in the 80s skiing was an elitist


sport. Then the snowboard- ers came in and the skiers didn’t like it since they had to share the same slopes. We’re not on the scale of snowboarders yet, but we’re coming in and not all of us are golfers. Footgolfers have to learn golf etiquette, because golfers have to learn to accept footgolfers on the course. A lot of the courses say, ‘Hey, if footgolfers aren’t here, then I’m gonna have to raise the green fees,’ and then the golfers don’t like that either.” So far there are 8 foot-


golf courses in San Diego County and about 500 nationwide. That’s not too bad for a sport that arrived in the U.S. about five years ago. If footgolf is going to break out in San Diego, the key is most likely two groups, soccer players and millennials. The latter are already providing great business for Mission Bay. “Month after month


they double their footgolf revenue,” Fajerman said. “Because of their location and because they have lights, at night, when it’s ten bucks to play, the PB crowd comes out. They have a beer, they socialize. It’s a super-social, friendly sport. It’s really easy to play. You don’t need to be a soc- cer player to kick a ball.”


But being a soccer


player doesn’t hurt, and soccers players are certainly the local demographic that could drive footgolf to the next level. It’s a fitting activ- ity for players, like Fajer- man, to drift into as their competitive soccer days draw to a close. He still plays indoor but says that he “gets beat up and can’t walk the next day.” He added, “I’m seeing


that audience of former soccer players that can’t keep it up but still want to touch the ball. Footgolf allows them to get out there and knock it around without getting hurt.” If the skiing/snow-


board analogy follows the same path as it did for those two sports, it might not be too many years before golf culture starts to take cues from foot- golf culture. “In the U.S.,” Fajer-


man said, “particularly Southern California, you have a ton of golf courses…basically too many. You’ve got golf on the decline in popularity, especially among youth. It’s still pretty much an old and elitist white-man sport. Soccer is on the rise. In San Diego soccer is king.”


■ — Dryw Keltz


32 San Diego Reader November 3, 2016


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