What is mini golf, crazy golf, adventure golf, or simply a putting green? Putt putt golf, in fact a trademark, is also often used to describe one or more of the aforementioned.
Aficionados will tell you there are subtle differences, but for this article we are using the definition that a mini golf course is one where you only use a putter to play it.
Below, we’ve rounded up some of those courses that best showcase the variety these layouts offer…
Whether you need to pack your golf rain gear for a round of golf is a common question. Well, you know you won’t for a round at at Zip World in Llechwedd as the 18-hole course is set over four storeys in an old slate mine.
But do dress for cold, though, as the temperature in the mine, 500ft below the ground, is between six and eight degrees Centigrade. Players don hard hats and are taken to the course by Europe’s steepest cable railway.
How maxi can mini be? The 13th hole here runs to 201ft, which the owners claim as the longest mini golf hole in the world. We have not verified this, nor their statement that the course has 1,000 tons of boulders, 4,600 bricks and nine streams and ponds. Okay, the ponds/stream one was within our mathematical capabilities. We’re just lazy.
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At PopStroke, you can pit your skills against Tiger Woods. Well, sort of. Tiger Woods’ design team have been designing the courses for PopStroke, an expanding chain of mini golf courses in America.
Many of them are in Florida, including their flagship venue adjacent to Palm Beach International Airport. PopStroke venues have two Tigerish synthetic turf 18-hole putting courses.
There are three 18-hole courses here, with the Crazy Golf course hosting the annual World Crazy Golf Championships. But the hardest of the courses is Adventure Golf, which has 13 fountains, five waterfalls and a cave.
Hastings is famous for the nearby battle of the name in 1066. A less famous battle is played out daily on The Pirates Course between two warring pirate ships firing canons – avoid being the splash zone when the balls land or on a cold day your timbers may be shivered.
The Himalayas course of St Andrews Ladies’ Putting Club
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According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the earliest documented mini-golf…
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