Today is World Miniature Golf Day. 10 things you might not know about mini golf:
Miniature golf is an offshoot of Golf which focusses on the putting aspect of the game alone. It’s thought to have originated as a way for women to play golf in an era when swinging a golf club was thought too unladylike.
The oldest known mini golf course in the world, the Ladies’ Putting Club of St. Andrews, is in Scotland, right next to St. Andrews Golf Course, a regular site of the British Open.
The first miniature golf course in the US is generally recognised as the one which opened in Pinehurst, California in 1916. The course was called Thistle Dhu, a play on words, indicating that if you can’t get to a full sized golf course, “this’ll do”.
Miniature golf is also known as Mini golf, crazy golf, putt-putt, goofy golf, shorties, midget golf and mini putt.
It’s usually played on courses consisting of nine or eighteen holes where the tee is no more than 10 yards from the hole. In many courses, the last hole will actually swallow the ball so you can’t go round again without paying. That said, if you get a hole in one on the last hole, you might get a discount on another round or even a free one.
Early courses used simple everyday items such as pipes, barrels, rain gutters and old tyres as obstacles. Themed courses with automatic obstacles came later.
It’s actually a professional sport with a governing body, the World Mini Golf Sports Federation (WMF). There are more than 40,000 registered players from more than 30 countries.
In 1920s New York, miniature golf was very popular and there were something like 150 courses in the city, some of them situated on the roofs of Skyscrapers. However, when the Great Depression came along, most of them closed.
In Scandinavia, they invented glow in the dark mini golf, so people could play during the long hours of darkness in winter.
In the UK, the playing surface is usually felt, which became a popular surface in the 1960s. It’s used here, and in Scandinavia, because it’s the best surface to play on when it’s raining.
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Running in the Family
An alien craft approaches Earth. The alien on board is a fugitive, fleeing from an arranged marriage to freedom on our world. She befriends James, a genetics student, and shares her knowledge about the future of the human race with him.
A science experiment gone wrong gifts James with superhuman abilities; but they come at a price, leading him to mentor others like himself. He founds a group of amateur heroes called the Freedom League.
The Freedom League suffers a string of losses and tragedies; it seems doomed to failure; but one of its members, Peter Mayfield, has vowed to form a group of his own. He is determined to keep his vow, despite having lost Rosemary, the one person he wanted by his side to help him.
Lizzie Hopkins is a talented young athlete and dancer. Peter sees her in action and guesses her exceptional abilities are far more than they seem. He offers to train and mentor Lizzie - but her mother is violently opposed to his suggestion.
As soon as she is old enough, Lizzie takes matters into her own hands; she seeks out Peter and his group for herself. She soon makes a discovery which shakes her world at its very foundations. Her search for the truth will resolve many unanswered questions, but it will also stir up old heartbreaks dating back to the Freedom League's early days.
An alien craft approaches Earth. The alien on board is a fugitive, fleeing from an arranged marriage to freedom on our world. She befriends James, a genetics student, and shares her knowledge about the future of the human race with him. 
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