Mini Golf Near Me in Mahopac
Lumberjack Pass Miniature Golf
Route 9, Lake George, NY
Lumberjack Pass Miniature Golf is the ultimate miniature golf in Lake George, NY!
Lumberjack Pass Mini Golf features 18 challenging championship holes in a beautiful Lake George
Adirondack setting. Our mini golf course is built on an acre of lushly landscaped Adirondack beauty.
Listen to the soothing sounds of our streams and natural stone waterfall while enjoying the fun of miniature golf. The magnificent putting greens are full of undulations, water hazards, and real sand traps! Come enjoy the fun today. Our course is barrier free - we are wheelchair and stroller friendly!
Monster Mini Golf
410-C Commack Road, Deer Park, NY
About
At Monster Mini Golf, we love what we do, because we get to deliver the most unique and quirky brand of Family Entertainment to guests, of all ages, throughout 30 locations spanning the United States and Canada.
Hunter Mountain
64 Klein Avenue, Hunter, NY
Hunter Mountain prides itself in being a four season resort and continues the fun all year long! Visit us in the spring, summer, and fall for thrilling activities, festivals, and concerts!
Hunter Mountain isn't just the Catskills' premier winter destination.... it's become one of the Catskill's best four-season resorts. Close to the heart of all that made the Catskills America's first vacation destination, Hunter is located in the beautiful mountaintop region of the Northern Catskill Mountains.
Miles of state hiking trails lead to breathtaking views of the Hudson Valley and the surrounding peaks. The highest fire tower in the state is a moderate hike from the summit of the Skyride. Waterfalls abound, including the highest cascading waterfall in the state. The area terrain is ideal for fishing, camping, mountain biking and many other outdoor adventures.
Around the World Miniature Golf
72 Beach Road, Lake George, NY
Around the World Golf is considered one of the oldest and most original miniature golf courses in the Lake George area. This miniature golf course has two sides - Around the World and Around the USA. Rated consistently as one of the best golf courses in the U.S., these courses are challenging, informative, and fun for the whole family.
Fairmount Glen Miniature Golf
210 Onondaga Rd, Syracuse, NY
History
It is a matter of taste which activity one wants to call "minigolf" rather than "golf", but probably the best candidate as the "first minigolf course in the world" is the Ladies' Putting Club of St. Andrews in Scotland, which was founded in 1867, and still today is operating and open for public. This 18-hole course of putting greens, called "the Himalayas", was founded by some members of the notable Royal & Ancient Golf Club in St. Andrews. Women had become interested in golf game, but the conservative social norms of the era deemed it unacceptable for women to publicly perform such violent movements that a golf swing requires. Therefore an 18-hole course of short putting greens was constructed for women – apparently the first "miniature golf course" in the world.
A few decades later it became customary for many American and British hotels to offer their guests a miniature-sized golf course, using the same designs as actual golf courses, but at one tenth the scale. The game was played with a golf putter and a short driver, and was called "garden golf", "pitch and putt golf", "clock golf" or "par 3 golf".
Geometrically-shaped minigolf courses made of fake materials began to emerge during the early 20th century. The earliest documented mention of such a course is in the 8 June 1912 edition of The Illustrated London News, which introduces a minigolf course called Gofstacle.
The first standardized minigolf courses to enter commercial mass-production were the Thistle Dhu ("This'll Do") course 1916 in Pinehurst, North Carolina, and the 1927 Tom Thumb patent of Garnet Carter from Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. Thomas McCulloch Fairbairn, a golf fanatic, revolutionized the game in 1922 with his formulation of a suitable artificial green—a mixture of cottonseed hulls, sand, oil, and dye. With this discovery, miniature golf became accessible everywhere; by the late 1920s there were over 150 rooftop courses in New York City alone, and tens of thousands across the United States. This American minigolf boom of early 20th century came to an end during the economic depression in the late 1930s. Nearly all minigolf courses in the United States were closed and demolished before the end of 1930s.
In 1938 Joseph and Robert Taylor from Binghamton, New York started building and operating their own miniature golf courses. These courses differed from the ones in the late 20s and early 30s; they were no longer just rolls, banks, and curves, with an occasional pipe thrown in. Their courses not only had landscaping, but also obstacles, including windmills, castles, and wishing wells.
Impressed by the quality of the courses, many customers asked if the Taylors would build a course for them. By the early 1940s, Joe and Bob formed Taylor Brothers, and were in the business of building miniature golf courses and supplying obstacles to the industry. During both the Korean and Vietnam Wars, many a G.I. played on a Taylor Brothers prefabricated course that the U.S. Military had contracted to be built and shipped overseas.