Of course you wouldnt 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 is actually a bit of debate going around on where the game actually first came from but it is said to be have been foudned in 1867 at the St Andrews Golf Club. This 18 hole course is actually still sitting in its location today and although it isnt crazy golf it is still arugably mini golf as it has 18 mini holes of 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. After the artifical style greens had been introduced it really did start to kick off and before the depression in 1929 there were over 150 mini golf courses on the rooftops of New York!
The one problem is that you cant load up those marine batteries and leisure batteries and put them in your mini golf trolleys you can actually get yourself a mini golf trolley for the mini putters.
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.
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