I came across the following extract from an article in Forbes magazine.
The joys of winter shooting by Jane E Simoni
Among the myriad horrors of winter, there may be no more depressing sight than watching golfers hit brightly colored balls around snowy links. These are the truly sad people who are lost without golf and too lazy to learn how to ski.
Over the past few years, more and more golf refugees have been finding a winter fix blasting away at sporting clays with a shotgun. Now, with many gun clubs open all year, the current sporting clays has earned the title "golf with a gun." (Or, in the words of Wayne McLoughlin's satirical book Hook and Bullet: "Sporting Clays is Loud Golf."-------------------------------------------------