As the end of the football season nears, the sun starts to shine with increasing regularity, we will see the masses start heading for the fairways.

You may not give a hoot about an albatross or care less about the condor, think strokes are for your four-legged friend and would rather miss the first 18 and head straight to the infamous 19th hole. But there are plenty of ways to have a go at golf without stepping foot near a blade of grass, in this swinging selection.

Giant Crazy Golf Set, £189.99, from www.iwantoneofthose.com is all you need for a titanic game of crazy golf, and best of all any surface will suffice. This offers nine holes of fun consisting of 13 funky obstacles, including a bridge, spiral and a hoop, complete with two clubs, a couple of balls and holes for your seaside reconstruction.

Doggie Driver, £16.95 from www.firebox.com lets you practice your fairway fling while exercising the pooch - the Doggie Driver does it all. Place your ball inside the almost comedy club and then, with all your might, swing like a winner and watch as it's launched up to 100 feet away for Fido to retrieve.

Awesome Foursome, £10.95 at www.sillyjokes.co.uk Stick these in any golfer's bag then await their return from the green. Each pack contains four comedy spheres performing the following tricks: the Unputtable, which jumps, skids and gyrates to avoid the putt; a Jetstreamer that ejects 15ft of streaming ribbon; an exploder that blows up in a spectacular cloud of billowing smoke or the Phantom that vanishes on impact into a watery mist.

Desktop Crazygolf, £34.99, from www.drinkstuff.com Sample the fun of the fair here without the queuing hoardes. This desk/tabletop set of golfing goodness comes complete with motorised clown bridge and windmill, sand trap, water hazards, telescopic club, putting cups, two golf balls and flags.

Giant Golf Set, £19.99, from www.iwantoneofthose.com This golf set comes with oversized everything - ball, tee and club - making it incumbent upon yourself to dig an oversized hole for sinking your sphere. I'm not quite sure of the point but you can work that out as you swing with all your might to launch the ball more than a few metres.

Chip Shotz, £9.95, from www.firebox.com has magnets inside the plastic pieces which mean you can pull off the most impossible shots. One golfer, a few balls, flags, green, plastic foliage and a water hazard can make your set-up look pretty tough but you can sink the almost unsinkable with just a few practice swings.