The courses’ challenging 36 holes – 18 of which are handicap accessible – are set amidst waterfalls and island ruins. Iowa: Take a tropical vacation without ever leaving Waterloo, Iowa, when you tee off on Lost Island’s 36 holes of adventure golf on two courses. The two 18-hole courses have a combined 19 moving obstacles and seven water holes, which may just encourage you to tell the party behind you to play through. Illinois: Lincolnshire, Illinois’ Par-King Skill Golf touts itself as “the world’s most unusual golf course,” and it may just be. Georgia: High above Ponce de Leon Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia, mini golfers can tee off at Skyline Park atop the recently-restored Ponce City Market. The challenging 18-hole course was designed by some of American’s premier mini golf course architects, and features 9 birdhouses by nationally-renowned designer Tom Burke.įlorida: Caves, pirate ships, waterfalls and even live alligators are all part of the attraction at Smugglers Cove Adventure Golf in Madeira Beach, Florida. The 18th hold on this course features an old piece of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.ĭelaware: Play a round alongside the Christina River in Wilmington, Delaware, at Riverwalk Mini Golf. Board the “Queen Anne’s Revenge,” Blackbeard the Pirate’s flagship, and then search for pirate booty in the two caves you’ll explore while putting through the mini golf course.Īlaska: Tee off at the northernmost mini golf course in the USA at Mini Golf Fairbanks in, well, Fairbanks, Alaska. Here’s a look at some historic, fun and unusual mini golf courses that are found today around the USA:Īlabama: It’s a pirate’s life at Pirate’s Island Adventure Golf in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Today, a fraction of those courses remain, yet they continue to delight both mini golf enthusiasts and those new to the game. In the USA, the sensation began sweeping the nation in the late-1920s, and by August 1930, it’s believed than an estimated 25,000 miniature golf courses could be found throughout the country.
The history of miniature golf may in fact date back to the 1860s when a Ladies Putting Club was built in St. Whether you know your way around the links or not, everyone can take a shot at a hole-in-one when it comes to miniature golf.
View Gallery: Historic and unusual mini golf courses around the USA
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