Posted
on May 10, 2014
Some
mini-golf courses are offering specials and even freebies today –
because National Miniature Golf Day is a great day to celebrate this
game.
It's
all about putting (which is why one company is called Putt-Putt).
There are no long drives or chip shots in mini-golf. So no golf bags and
no caddies, no long hikes from shot to shot, no golf carts.
Miniature
golf with artificial “grass” that was actually carpet first began
in the early 1900s in England and the U.S. Soon companies were making
standardized mini-golf courses. But it wasn't until Thomas Fairbairn
invented a really good artificial putting green (using cottonseed
hulls, sand, oil, and dye) that mini-golf really took off. Fairbairn
invented the artificial green in 1922, and by the late 1920s there
were over 150 rooftop mini-golf courses in New York City alone –
and tens of thousands across the U.S. Soon courses sprung up in
Canada, Germany, Sweden, and other nations as well.
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| Have you ever played black-light mini-golf? |
The
next big innovation in mini-golf came in 1938, when Joseph and Robert
Taylor began to build courses with large-scale obstacles, many of which required "trick shots." Instead of just having
ramps and curves and banks, the Taylors included windmills, castles,
and wishing wells on their courses.
Nowadays,
we wouldn't even recognize a mini-golf course if it didn't have a
windmill or a castle, right?
Besides
for playing miniature gold at a nearby course, how can we celebrate
National Miniature Golf Day?
- Throw a party in honor of miniature golf! Here is another Pinterest board with some great ideas.
- Party City sells “finger mini golf games” for under two dollars. Now that's really miniature!
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on this date:
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