>>I've never quite figured out this "golf" game. You hit a teenee weenee little ball with a stick... then you go find the darn ball. You finally find it - and then what? You hit it again! Heck you found it! Put the ball in yer pocket and go home! You won - you found it! Dont hit it again (so you can go find it again).
>>geeeze
>>I say destroy all the golf courses and put up housing for the homeless on the land.
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>I only wish the other shepherds' game became as popular: klis. You have a piece of wood of about four inches, sharpened into a cone on both ends. It lies flat on the ground. The player needs to hit the cone with his stick, so that it jumps into the air, and then hit it again while it flies - and then I don't know what comes next, i.e. what's the next move, where should the piece fly, how do you score etc. But from this much description, I figure the game would be much more physically involving than golf.

What a wonderful game (we called it Clepci)! You didn't need to buy anything to play, and the rules where so simple:
- The guy with the stick (HP=home player, S=stick) was in a ~2m diameter circle (H=home) scratched on the ground.
- HP hits the small piece of wood (C=Clepci) as far as possible, towards the front of H.
- All other players outside H, try to catch it.
- If one catches C in the air, he becomes HP, no score.
- If C lands on the ground, HP scores the number of lengths of S measured in straight line from the edge of H to where C stoped.
- The player who first got the C after it landed has a chance to out the HP by throwing C into the H.
- The HP can defend the H by hitting C while it is in motion (in the air or on the ground).
- If HP hits the C while defending he scores in the same way as when play started with C on the ground.
The C didn't need to be sharpened, unless you played on asfalt. You could use/make a small hole in the ground instead. A sharpened C was more difficult to catch with bare hands, or even dangerous, and it was used by older and better players