Apart from the different terminology, one can say that in almost every particular, the way chuiwan was played seems to mirror the game of golf. No wonder, then, that recently the study of chuiwan has become an essential part of academic investigations into the history of sport and recreation.
林林總總，可以說除了名稱不同，捶丸的整套球戲模式，幾乎是高爾夫運動的翻版。莫怪近來捶丸已成為探討體育與游藝史學界不可缺的研究項目。