Sporting Clays
"Golf with a shotgun" — walk between stations across a course firing at clays that simulate flying game birds and rabbits.
👥1 per team🌤outdoor
What is Sporting Clays?
Sporting clays is a shotgun sport often described as "golf with a shotgun". A course of 10–15 stations is spread across natural woodland and open ground; each station presents a different sequence of clay targets simulating game birds, rabbits or teal. FITASC (international) and NSCA (USA) run annual world championships.
Quick facts
Category
Precision Sports
Type
Individual
Players
1 per team
Where played
outdoor
Country of origin
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Estimated origin
1925, West London Shooting School (as game-shooting simulation)
Olympic
No
Popularity
global
Sources & provenance
Last verified 2026-08-24.verified