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Archery Golf, Anyone?

Check out these crazy forms of golf (now obsolete, I think, I hope) that are featured in FOX TOSSING: And Other Forgotten and Dangerous Sports, Pastimes, and Games by Edward Brooke-Hitching (November 2015, Touchstone).

Aerial Golf: In the 1920s biplanes swooped from the sky and bombarded golf courses with balls for players on the ground to hit towards the hole. The "aerial tournaments" took place in America and Britain, the latter also seeing a variation involving aviators dropping sacks of flour onto ground targets, obliterating manicured English greens in explosions of white powder.

Bow-And-Arrow Golf: Also known as "archery golf," golfers and archers competed against each other on the same course.