Looking for a few pictures of older archery golf points. Hoping to put something together for this spring. Thanks for your help

Golf Point


Ace Cornstalk Point. What game was this used for?

Cornstalk Shooting is a Cherokee Sport; stacks of corn stalks 3 feet wide are stacked in a frame and shot at from 100 or so yards. The more stalks penetrated the more points scored. That reminds me anyone have a set of archery golf rules that you can post?

Found a set of rules, anyone else have a picture of a point?

Wow that is something! Never heard of this sport. Sounds very intriguing.
I love golf and I love archery... Hmmm. I find both sports quite similar, learning yardage, shot preparation, muscle memory, aiming at distance, and relaxing.
Thanks for the info.

We always played archery golf in a hay field  

The game [archery golf] came to American as a roving game.  Both golf and the roving game "apparently" originated independently.  Games with clubs and balls were common in Europe way back as were bow games.

Golf [the name originates from words in European languages for club] is a game played with a club.  Although well established in our vocabulary, "archery golf" really doesn't make sense because you can't play golf with a bow, by definition it is played with a club.  

The original roving game as played in the late 1800s in America, before being taken over by that game played with a club, consisted of roving established paths ending in a target.  The course was set so each target took 3 or more shots to reach.  

The "hole," for no better word, ended when each player hit the target.  Scoring was by number of shots to hit the target and the target score was recorded separately.  In the event of a tie in total shots, the total score on the targets determined the tie breaking at the completion of the round.  And, there was actually a set of simple rules printed on the back of the scorecard for the earliest course of this type I've been able to validate in St. Louis in the late 1800s.

I remember  back 60 or so years ago playing archery golf as a member of the Paterson Longbowmen Club on an actual golf course.  Back then there seemed to be more archers than golfers.

We play archery golf in the winter. It's interesting with frozen ground and sometimes snow a foot deep. Arrows skip wildly on frozen ground and hide quite well under the snow. It really is a lot of fun.

It is a blast.  But, it's hard to get any "real" golf course to allow a tournament because the whole idea screams "liability insurance!"  When my son was a teenager we lived near a nice, scenic 9 hole course in Michigan.  The family who owned it worked their butts off all summer, so when the first snow fell, they went south for a couple of months.  That's when we started to play golf! No competition for course time, and no one bothered us at all.  Tresspassing?  Well, maybe.  But, no one ever stopped to ask us what the heck we were doing!

bowhunterfrompast, where you got that golf archery pts.?  The cornstalk heads I know...  

Peter, I picked it up in a trade. I don't know where he got it but I can ask.

Many thanks, yes would be great!! They look very classic. Once I saw a pic of Howard Hills golf points, they were like the cornstalk pts..

I used to shoot archery golf at the Teela Wooket Archery Camp when it was located in Roxbury, VT.  Later on it moved to the Poconos and then to Pomfret, CT.  Charlie Minnich was on the staff and wrote a little pamphlet on archery golf.  He also had his own course in Ohio near Columbus - I believe.  I was in Ohio in the late '60s and there used to be an annual state tournament held in archery golf.  I think that it was conducted in March.  It was a lot of fun.  Some good memories.

We have a super archery golf course in central Wisconsin, with camping and  a very reasonable shooting fee, just Google North Fond Du Lac Archery Club.