Soccer Golf
Students will be working on their kicking skills while participating in a small sided game throughout class
Lesson Created By: Jacob Scruggs
Essential Question
What are the cues for kicking? What are some golf etiquettes?
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- 6
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Lesson Progression
Soccer Golf
Objectives: TSWBT use the correct kicking technique in order to kick a soccer ball from point A to point B during a small sided game during class
Equipment: Soccer balls, poly spots, cones
Prerequisites:
Students should understand the following golf rules/etiquette:
1. the person whose ball is farthest from the hole kicks first.
2. When someone is about to kick, there should be no talking.
3. the person with the lowest score on the previous hole kicks first from the next tee.
Pre-class Set up: Each poly spot will represent a tee and each cone will represent a hole. Put a poly spot on the ground. After you place a poly spot, walk 10-100 yards away (depending on available space) and put a cone on the ground. Walk a few yards away and put another poly spot down. Continue this until all 9 or 18 poly spots and cones are set up like a golf course. You can be as creative as you would like to be while setting up the course!
Tip: Use numbered or colored poly spots and cones so that the students know where to kick the soccer ball towards. This also helps so that students know what number hole they are on.
How to play: The object of the game is to use your leg and foot as the golf club, the soccer ball as the golf ball, the poly spot as the tee and the cone as the hole. In order for it to count, the student must kick the soccer ball and make it hit the cone. Students should try to hit the cone with their soccer ball with the fewest number of kicks possible (lowest score wins).
To minimize the wait time for the students, have a set number of students start at each hole instead of everyone starting at the first hole. For example, if you have 26 students, have 2 or 3 students start at each poly spot (tee). Students who start on the first hole will finish when they return to the first hole.
There are numerous golf rules and etiquette procedures that can be educated in this lesson other than those listed in prerequisites. Some include:
1. Lowest score wins.
2. The first shot is always from the tee.
3. Don't touch any ball other than your own.
4. Terms (par, birdie, eagle, bogey, hole in one, fore, green, fairway, etc.) can be taught.
5. A group (foursome) must wait until the group in front of them are out of range before they kick.