5 Simple Rules of FunFlight™ golf

1. Be Safe
2. Have Fun
3. Respect the Golf Course and Other Golfers
4. Embrace/Support a Positive Attitude
5. Learn Through Play and Experimentation
*A competition clause exists for advanced FunFlight participants.

Examples of the Funflight Golf Rules in Action

Be Safe
  • Be sure to look around every time before you swing the club to make sure that you are a safe distance from other golfers.  Also be aware of other people who could be swinging the club near you.  
  • Keep a safe distance between you and the group in front of you.  Wait until they are out of the way before you hit your next shot (ex. Don’t hit your final shots up to the FunFlight hole until the group in front of you is done with their hole (regular golf or FunFlight).
  • Order of play is determined by whoever is ready, and once everyone starts, the ball that you get to first is the person who goes next. Be sure to not get ahead of other golfers while they are hitting.  There’s NO defense in FunFlight!

Have Fun
  • Start the hole between the set of blocks closest to the hole…or if you think that the hole is still too far away, start playing the hole where you feel comfortable and work further back to the blocks over time or as your skills improve.
  • Be sure to appreciate the nice day, time with friends, and beauty of the golf course – that’s what’s most important!
  • Take the time to celebrate when you do something well or get an awesome bounce!
  • If a ball ends up in a spot where you can’t hit it, move your ball to the closest place where you can hit it!
  • Keep track of your score with smiley and frowny faces instead of numbers.  If you have more smiley faces than frowny ones – you win!  As you get more comfortable, you can start counting the number of swings it takes you to get the ball in the hole.

Respect the golf course and other golfers
  • If you swing and accidentally take out a chunk of grass, please go get the chunk (called a divot) and put it back in the hole you made with your club and press it down with your foot.
  • Do your best to keep up with the group in front of you, especially on busy days. If you see that you are falling way behind, on the next hole, make the hole shorter by hitting your first shot from spot closer to the hole. By shortening the hole, it won’t take as long and you can catch up.  Once you catch up, you can either continue to play shorter holes or you can move back to starting the hole at the tee blocks.
  • If the group behind you is playing faster than you are AND there is open space in front of you, you can also ask them if they want to pass you (they call that “playing through” in golf).  Sometimes people in front of you may ask you if you want to play through and that means they are allowing you to pass them.  FYI, it’s not nice to pass people if they don’t ask you to play through.  Be patient because everyone is doing their best and are out there to have a good time.
  • The really short grass where the tall golf flag is located is very fragile (and expensive to repair if damaged). This generally circular area is called the putting green.  If your ball stops on the putting green and you don't plan to switch to a real golf ball and a putter, please move your ball off the green to the taller grass before hitting your next shot (and you DON’T have to add a stroke to your score for doing this). 
  • We all love celebrating an awesome shot but try not to needlessly yell/scream a lot on the golf course and disrupt the other golfers.
  • If your ball goes into the sand, you can hit it out.  Please rake smooth any footprints you make before you leave the sand.  If your ball isn’t in the sand, don’t needlessly walk through the sand (so you don’t have to spend time raking it).

Embrace/Support a positive attitude
  • Compliment your playing partners when they hit a nice shot or give them a kind word if they are struggling.  
  • Be patient and don’t say mean things to yourself.  Learning a new skill takes time.  Ask yourself, what would I say to a friend or someone else if they were in my situation.
  • Act like someone who you would enjoy playing with.  It’s not very fun to play with people who are angry, pouting, apologizing, or boasting all the time.  Occasionally we all get frustrated and may act in a way we had not planned.  It’s ok.  Take a few deep breaths, apologize, and do your best to keep your emotions in check next time.


Learn through Play and Experimentation
  • Try new things on the golf course to see what works for you.  Try a different strategy or way of doing something.  If you are still struggling, you can always ask for help from a golf coach later.
  • Be creative – if it’s not working, try to do it a different way!
  • Don’t feel the need to help everyone around you all the time.  It’s ok to offer a simple tip or share ideas, but let other people learn through their own play and experimentation.  If you are playing with a child or someone new, ask them guided questions about what they might change to improve instead of telling them what to do.
  • Take a strategy to angle shots away from any trouble areas like trees and water because you don’t want to lose your FunFlight ball.
  • At the end of your round, write down three things you learned from today’s round on your scorecard – and remember to write them in a positive way.  Ex. Instead of writing what you don’t want to do next time, write what you do want to do instead.  
  • Most of all - Use common sense and have fun!

*Information About Competitions

For Competitions: Come to a fair agreement within your group or with the leader of your competition
  • If you are competing while playing FunFlight Golf.  You can establish your own rules with the people you are playing with or a tournament/league coordinator might come up with some extra rules in advance to make competition fair for everyone.  Sometimes weird things will happen on the golf course.  Try to come to a fair agreement on how to proceed within your group or with the leader of your competition.
  • One of the great things about golfers is that they value honesty and believe that it is important to challenge yourself to do your best and work towards self improvement over time.  It is important to be honest about how many shots it took you to get in the ball in the hole.  Remember, golfers value honesty much more than they do winning.

Examples of Rules You May See in Competitions

  • If your ball goes into dense woods, tall grass, etc. and you can't hit it out - Add a penalty stroke and drop it at the closest spot where you can hit.
  • If your ball goes in the water or if you lose it - Add a penalty stroke and drop it in a fair location near where it went in the water or where you lost it.
  • In golf we never drop the ball closer to the hole than where your ball is (or where you lost it).
  • If you ball causes another ball to move, replace the ball that moved back to it's original spot.  If you think a ball is in your way, you can ask the other person to go first.