Jubilee Street Golf

Jubilee celebrations embrace golf. Guest Post from Jon Woodroffe at World of Golf New Malden.

The celebrations for the Queens Diamond Jubilee took many forms from massive flotilla’s in the Thames to the humble street party where friends and neighbours came together to have fun play games and socialise without the distractions of traffic coming up and down the road.

On one such street party PGA Advanced Fellow Jon Woodroffe decided it would be great fun to hold a street golf competition as part of the games on offer.  So with the use of some foam, low bounce golf balls to ensure there was no danger to man, vehicle or property, he set about “constructing” a 9 hole golf course for his friends and neighbours to play. The holes were all around 15 yards long and consisted of hitting the golf balls into targets for which a sum of points were awarded according to the degree of difficulty of the “hole” - for example the skip was fairly easy so attained a single point, whereas the hanging basket was certainly trickier and collected 10 points for the successful shot. The players were allowed 3 shots at each of the 9 hole targets and then their total score was taken. Other targets used included a cement mixer and the open boot of a parked car.

It was a great success with many of the people claiming the street golf one of the most enjoyable part of the day.  The winner was young Alfie with a score of 21 points amassed from successful shots into the hanging basket, the skip and a canoe.