Golf GameAlong with the standardization of an acceptable golf game putting surface, came the familiar hazards or obstacles that one still relates to miniature golf such as the storybook characters and the ever-present windmill & tiny churches. However, in 1953, the late Don Clayton, founder of Putt-PuttŪ Golf and Games was the most vocal advocate of miniature golf as a serious sport. Disgusted by what he considered trick shots, he designed a new and improved course that allowed only straight putting with none of the gimmicks. Along with McDonald's and Holiday Inn, Putt-PuttŪ went on to become one of the nation's first franchised roadside businesses. In 1955, Lomma Enterprises, Inc., founded by Al Lomma and today still run by his brother Ralph Lomma, led the revival of wacky, animated, trick hazards intended to be more challenging than straight putting. These hazards required both accurately aimed shots and split-second timing to avoid spinning windmill blades, revolving statuary and other careening obstacles. With the use of indoor/outdoor carpeting or astroturf starting with football stadiums in the 60's, so did the use of outdoor synthetic carpeting begin on miniature golf courses. Along with this surface change came the Fantasy courses which produced a fun theming for the players with all kinds of imaginative animals, miniature houses and unique multi-tiered, trick holes. By now theming was in and the older country-dub courses or spec franchise courses were a thing of the past. The post-war baby boomer's generation took this new fantasy craze of miniature golf through most of the 1970's as well. PC
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