Wiffle Ball Golf

[fixyurdivot]

I was over at a neighbors yesterday and noticed his toddler was wielding a plastic golf club and chasing a wiffle golf ball around.  It immediately brought back memories of my growing up in Ft. Lauderdale and playing rounds at our local park.  We'd create a course using everything from power poles to trees to benches as targets and played for hours.  No one ever cared that we were there chopping up the turf and, as memory serves, we pretty much had the place to ourselves.  At that time, my neighbor and I were playing JGA and this activity served as practice - though we never looked at it as such.  When we tired of golf, out came a football or baseball.  Some of my favorite childhood memories involve chasing a plastic wiffle ball around and pretending to be Chi Chi Rodriquez (I had Chi Chi Rodriguez golf clubs).  Anyone else grow up playing wiffle ball golf?  Anyone using these for practice?

[GolfSpy_BNG]

During the winter I use a wiffle golf ball, a wedge, and a big round bucket to practice chipping. I know it isn’t exactly like practicing with a real ball but it causes a lot less damage when I hit a thin one!


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[PlaidJacket]

36 minutes ago, fixyurdivot said:

Anyone else grow up playing wiffle ball golf? 

I can't say I did. Actually never touched a golf club until about age 10 or 11 I recall. However... back in the old days (60's) me and kids in general were free to get out and do just about anything. Discover. We played all sports and invented lots of other things to do. I remember me and a couple of guys making ourselves a pole vaulting setup. He had found a long sturdy bamboo pole and then some long wood pieces where we fashioned the setup using nails to hold a cross-bar. We also found stuff and make push carts to go careening down hills and driveways and such. We rode and wrecked our bikes. Built forts out in the woods, shot BB and pellet guns and bows and arrows, made bridges across creeks, took chances and did scary stuff that parents these days would absolutely freak over. And get this.... no one died!! LOL

Golf wiffle ball would have been fun too. Too bad kids these days are so sheltered. They don't learn anything on their own it seems. Can you imagine telling your son or daughter to go have fun but be home by dark? 

[Canucklehead]

Social services would be called on the parents, Plaid!! I consider myself to be quite young and my childhood was a lot like that. Unless it was raining during the summer you were outside. Mom and dad had two rules:
1) home no later than dark
2) don't get out of earshot from mom's whistle

Sorry not trying to jack the thread. I had a plastic set with wiffle/plastic hollow balls when I was very young and dad dug a little hole so my bro and I could "play golf". Spent many hours in the summer playing with them. The hole has eroded away to the point it's almost a basketball hoop now lol!

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[Big money]

I did this as a youth with my young brother.We would make up holes in our back yard.Oddly, I hit the wiffle ball best with a nice slower motion swing.Whenever I tried killing it, it went now where and real low.

 

Boy was this some great times.And boy did we make up some wacky triple to quadruple dog leg holes.Thanks for posting this thread.Really makes me think back too some wonderful years of yesterday’s gone past 

[txgolfjunkie]

I was over at a neighbors yesterday and noticed his toddler was wielding a plastic golf club and chasing a wiffle golf ball around.  It immediately brought back memories of my growing up in Ft. Lauderdale and playing rounds at our local park.  We'd create a course using everything from power poles to trees to benches as targets and played for hours.  No one ever cared that we were there chopping up the turf and, as memory serves, we pretty much had the place to ourselves.  At that time, my neighbor and I were playing JGA and this activity served as practice - though we never looked at it as such.  When we tired of golf, out came a football or baseball.  Some of my favorite childhood memories involve chasing a plastic wiffle ball around and pretending to be Chi Chi Rodriquez (I had Chi Chi Rodriguez golf clubs).  Anyone else grow up playing wiffle ball golf?  Anyone using these for practice?

We did this all over the neighborhood until folks would get mad when we would take dollar size divots out of their front lawn. We would tape up the holes to get a little more distance out of them... Geez I hope the USGA doesn't roll back whiffle golf balls!!

Then when I went off to college, there was a tennis ball golf league that played around campus and it was a lot of fun. Par 4 around the big oak, over the fountain and the hole was a statue of some random dude. I loved both whiffle ball and tennis ball golf.


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[HardcoreLooper]

14 hours ago, fixyurdivot said:

I was over at a neighbors yesterday and noticed his toddler was wielding a plastic golf club and chasing a wiffle golf ball around.  It immediately brought back memories of my growing up in Ft. Lauderdale and playing rounds at our local park.  We'd create a course using everything from power poles to trees to benches as targets and played for hours.  No one ever cared that we were there chopping up the turf and, as memory serves, we pretty much had the place to ourselves.  At that time, my neighbor and I were playing JGA and this activity served as practice - though we never looked at it as such.  When we tired of golf, out came a football or baseball.  Some of my favorite childhood memories involve chasing a plastic wiffle ball around and pretending to be Chi Chi Rodriquez (I had Chi Chi Rodriguez golf clubs).  Anyone else grow up playing wiffle ball golf?  Anyone using these for practice?

Hell yes we did this.  I grew up on a quiet cul-de-sac, which was perfect for all kinds of sports.  We cut up an old doormat to use on "unfriendly" yards.  We'd play street golf, basketball, football, soccer and kick the can in the neighborhood.  

 

We moved to a cul-de-sac so my kids can have the same experience growing up.  They hit Point 3 balls into the street at me, and I shag them with an old ball glove.