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The superb TrendCentral.com (their daily email is phenomenal) reports that "urban golf" is on the rise. From what I understand, it's a hybrid of real golf and putt-putt, and everything from sidewalk cracks to trashcans and gutters are in play. Also, golf fashion is moving off the greens and onto the streets w/ Urban Golf Gear emerging as the leading label for those who like Lacoste ("alligator") style but have no idea what a lobwedge is.

Have you played urban golf?

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• #1 Comment from monponsett 
  6/4/04 8:05 AM | Permalink

  I teach high school in urban Boston. While I haven't played Urban Golf yet, I have played Urban Bocce.
  
  For those of you who aren't old Italian men, bocce is a sport that basically involves players trying to roll their ball as close to a marker ball as possible. If you've thrown horshoes before, you have the basic idea. It is usually played on grass, or in a pit of some sorts...until we took up the sport.
  
  We just start at the school doors, throw the ball somewhere, and bocce(a new verb, yes) after it. Whoever wins the first round gets to throw the marker ball for the second round, and he can throw it wherever he/she likes. We've gone uphill, downhill, blindly over hills, under cars, into water, into businesses, around the Bunker Hill monument, right by Nomar once, and anywhere else you'd imagine. We throw underhand, overhand, 2 at once- whatever you're into. We've used an orange as the marker ball before. Only armed sailors kept us from Bocce-ing right onto the USS Constitution, the oldest ship in the US Navy. Basically, we cover a lot of ground.
  
  You can play bocce for next to nothing, or $20 if you go to Wal-Mart and buy a set of bocce balls. Girls can play as well as boys- I had an Italian girl who would just shame the other kids. You can eat or smoke while you play. Black kids seem to like it as much as white kids, and Hispanics like it as well.
  
  Give it a shot
  
  Stacey