Golf Cross

Golf Cross is a popular activity with the injured combatants who come on a Southwest Scotland RnR adventure holiday. Most of them discover this variation on golf for the first time.

Golf Cross is played at Solway Links near Southerness, Dumfries & Galloway, which has a pay and play golf course. It is the first Golf Cross course set up in Scotland. Owner Mungo Clark, organises the Golf Cross for groups of  injured military personnel during the week’s adventure holiday.

Like golf, it is played over a course and  ordinary golf clubs are used. It follows the same rules as golf with two major differences – the shape of the ball and the target. The ball is shaped like a rugby ball and instead of aiming for a small hole in the ground, the players aim for a rectangular goal net, suspended in the air. The Golf Cross ball is aerodynamically more stable than a round golf ball which makes for a different and interesting game – which has eliminated the frustration of missing an ‘easy putt’.

Mungo Clark said: "Golf Cross is a fun way of playing on a golf course. Non-players can pick it up quickly and even beat good golfers in a game. Every time the boys come there's always lots of laughter as they try to hit this rugby-shaped ball into a goal."

There are nine goals on the course and after a practice session the participants are split into teams and the fun begins.