VEDA Day 13 - Crazy About Mini Golf

Why hello there my happy little peoples,

A big hobby of my Dad and I is playing mini golf. Whenever we go on holiday we always scout around for the best, most interesting mini golf places we can find. Our favourite courses are outdoor courses. However, you can only really get them in Florida and Bermuda (they will do them other places we have just been to these places already aha). But thankfully, a couple of years ago Dad found this amazing outdoor mini golf course up in Fife. You can only really go on a good day though which means it gets super busy. We had to wait ages to get around the course. But, it was great fun. 

Mini golf courses began to appear in the USA around the early 20th century and the earliest a mini golf course had been documented was in 1912 on the 8th of June in an edition of The Illustrated London News in which it introduced a mini golf course called Gofstacle. By the end of the 1920's mini golf courses could be found everywhere and there was over 150 rooftop courses just in New York alone! However it wasn't all good news. In the 1930's the economic depression hit and almost all of the mini golf courses were closed and/or demolished.

In Europe the first documented course was built in the 1926 by a German called Fr. Schröder. He had been inspired by his recent visit to the USA to recreate the "mini-golf boom" in Europe. By 1930 a Swedish pair returned from the USA after stayed over there for a couple of years. Edwin O. Norrman and Eskil Norman had seen just how popular these miniature golf courses were in America and decided to found the company, "Norman och Norrmans Miniatyrgolf". They began to manufacture standardised mini golf courses and within the following years the golf courses spread into parks, leisure areas and anywhere else that was appropriate for their mini golf courses. 

We have played on quite a few mini golf courses so I thought I would list them below incase anyone was looking around for some :)

Scotland

• http://www.adventure-golf-island.com/
• http://www.paradiseislandgolf.com/Livingston
• http://www.paradiseislandgolf.com/Glasgow
• https://www.facebook.com/pages/Funtastic-fantasy-Golf-Limited/164058443657744

England

• https://www.visitsealife.com/blackpool/plan-your-visit/default/pirate-adventure-golf/
• https://www.altontowers.com/things-to-do/extraordinary-golf/

Florida 

• http://www.piratescove.net/orlando
• http://www.hollywooddriveingolf.com/
• http://www.lostcavernsgolf.com/

We have also done Mini golf courses in Bermuda but they shut down and change every year so I can't actually link them in this. 

I hope you enjoyed a very brief history to mini golf and if you have never tried it, I would strongly recommend it. Unless you and your family is highly competitive because then it can get messy. Anyhoo I hope you're having a fantastic day,

Hev xx

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