About Us

As kids, we used our imaginations to create holes and obstacles from what was around us. One hole we had to putt around an area where we knew a turtle always would hang out. Another hole was through my Mom's cherished garden. I would hear my mother on occasion comment to my father that the wildlife was eating at the items in the garden and that she wants a better fence around the garden. My father would respond in that calm demeanor of his that there is only so much he can do to keep the wildlife out of the garden. While the wildlife certainly did get into my mom's garden there were times that my friends would make an errant putt through the garden and unfortunately end that plant's growing season.
Our only limits were our imaginations in creating these mini golf courses which entertained us for hours in not just playing them but seeing what we could create from the resources around us. For example, that wheel barrow that we had for work around our house became an obstacle. Rakes, shovels, tree branches and all sorts of odd shapes of rocks made for some of the most challenging miniature golf course holes and we loved them all.
There were some summers that my family would drive from rural upstate New York to Virgina Beach, Virgina. I am sure that being the youngest of the children I was not a joy to be in a car for that long of period with my two sisters and parents. When we did arrive in Virgina Beach, my parents would take us to Around the World Mini Golf. That course was like a mini golf mecca to me. While I did not know it then, my experiences with my friends and those family summer trips to that course would later serve me in a professional journey in providing authentic miniature golf for events.
My friends and I absolutely loved the joy of creating a mini golf hole that was entertaining and challenging. We did not call it challenging as kids but we called it "No Way anyone will get a hole in one on this". When one of us did get a hole in one on one of our crazy holes, that friend would jump for joy and yell I beat your crazy hole. We would all laugh together and for the rest of the summer that memory would be repeated to all of us by the friend who did get that hole in one. As I write this, I can still see the crazy holes that we created and then recreated as the summer went on.
Fast forward some 29 years later to the early spring of 2010 and a client who we had provided a variety of arcade game & casino rentals for a few years asked if we could create a unique (9) hole mini golf activity for their annual company picnic. While I had certainly played on mini golf courses since my time in upstate New York and at times seeked them out when I was traveling on business, I had not given it much thought to create such a product in the event company that I owned. After performing a tremendous amount of research to discover what was in the event marketplace, we agreed in the middle of June to proceed with this endeavor.
What I discovered in the research that my company performed is that overwhelmingly the majority of event mini golf courses that were provided for events were simple, boring and did not create any memories for the individuals who played them. Before even conceptualizing the holes, I thought back to my youth and the feelings my friends and my family had when I played mini golf with them. There was a huge gap between my mini golf experiences and what was available in the event marketplace.
I understood as an event company, budgets would not permit replicating mini golf courses that we play at theme parks, resorts towns and boardwalks. Furthermore, these courses would not be financially and logistically feasible in the event space. Thus, our objective became creating authentic mini golf and putt putt rental courses that could replicate the memorable experiences that these iconic places provide us that were also economically & logistically feasible for the event space.