Scottish many years ago enriched the pleasure to go for a pleasant walk in woods by carrying under their arm bow and arrows, which had been already used with not actually playing aims, stopping sometimes to dart an arrow: to a grass lump, a tree log, a root or only aiming high trajectory in the next of a grassland.
This play was named “roving” (literally “to wander”) and Archery Golf takes inspiration from this ancient activity adjusting little the quality of targets but keeping the spirit intact: living and enjoying the environment that you can find without leaving unpleasant tracks of your passage.
Archery Golf is a play made by darting arrows towards original targets, which have been distributed along the path that has been adapted following territory characteristics. Bows and arrows are rigorously simple and wooden. Arrows have a garish fletching with the aim to brake and make the trajectory predictable, above all for what it concerns parabolic darts towards a centre, which is marked by a flag: just a bearing-pole with flag, such as for the classic Golf, where instead of a hole in the ground in the centre is marked a circle with a diameter of some meters.
A progressive numbering following the number of targets and players who, as for Golf, can start in a body and mark the score step after step along the path.
The particularity of Archery Golf is also the learning process: easy and rapid for whom has never played and only a few hours of lessons to learn the basic technique and safety rules will be enough for the pupil to leave the practice field and try a natural course with bow and arrows.
A few time to rediscover an ancient gesture, an ancestral emotion, which traversed all the humanity history.
