Mini Golf: Where Did It Come From?

Of course you wouldn't see Tiger Woods playing this form of the sport (or would you at the moment) but mini golf has a very important role in the world too.

Believe it or not there have been a lot of arguments around who technically brought in the whole idea for crazy golf but it was first seen in 1867 in St Andrews Golf Club. This 18 hole putting course is still there today but because women were not really allowed to play golf back in these times they were often simply told to go and play on the 18 hole putting greens.

Over time these started to pop up all over the place and many hotels across the United States and Great Britain had them installed to amuse the guests during their stay. A mini putter was used as well as a short driver and it was often called garden golf or clock golf.

North Carolina was the very first location of the mini golf course that we would recgonise today and this was formed in 1916. Once the artificial green had started to be used it really kicked off and it became accessible everywhere and by the late 1920s there were over 150 courses on the rooftops of New York alone!

You cannot load up those marine batteries and leisure batteries and put them in your mini golf trolleys you can actually have a golf trolley just for the putters that people use to play the sport.

All the major destinations in the world will have at least one mini golf course no including huge places such as Disney World in Florida, it just goes to show how popular the game has become.

The game has become popular because it is great fun to do for the entire family and you do not need to know how to play golf to learn how to play although judging by the way that my father plays it helps to know how to putt.

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