Which Reminds Me

My parents have many photos of Yucatan, including the ruins of the ancient Mayan civilization. There is a ball court there where the ancient Mayans played ball. It is hard for us to imagine in these modern times how they managed to throw the ball through that small hole and/or loop protruding from the wall on the left side. Yes, but then golf also seems complicated to me. I suppose that with proper training at an early age you might be able to learn how to do that, but I am much too old for that now, not to mention that the ball court is in ruins now. There could be aspects of he Mayan game that we would prefer to forget. Is the loser then killed as a human sacrifice? That wouldn't be appropriate.