Miniature Golf Manhattan —if You Use Your Imagination

So you're in New York on business or vacation, or you want to take your family to play Miniature Golf Manhattan miniature golf, Manhattan-style. Maybe you are a golf veteran with a penchant for short game challenge. Maybe you're a neophyte seeking the occasionally temperate weather, pristine course conditions, and fairways with a forgiveness for beginners. How about going for the par-nines, par-thirty-sixes, on par-fifty-fours, the accommodations of the public grounds and facilities, fast greens, undulating fairways, and treed or treeless and true ambience? For a great contemporary play, how about manicured courses, strategically configured and placed holes and artfully arranged shallow to cavernous bunkers, OB areas, and water hazards on shifting elevations—courses that provide a variety of challenges while alternately facilitating flow and speeding up play with manageable yardage and re-routed nines?

How about if I told you the above descriptions are for full-sized golf courses? Okay, what about this. I'll modify the details and you will find the same joy (or maybe even more) in miniature golf Manhattan-style:

You can still find the challenge (on a smaller scale) of up-and-down, undulating terrain. You can still come to test your grit with golfing hazards—in this case, in the form of rocks, water, castles, clown heads, and windmills. And with miniature golf in general and miniature golf Manhattan-style specifically, you can still play a full 18-hole game.

And unlike standard golf, miniature golf Manhattan-style has its special perks. This game that started in the 1920's on the rooftops in the same town and picked up popularity again in the 1990's (according to a writer for the Sunday Springfield Republican , Aug. 26 2001) only costs about $5 per person. And any person—three to 103—can play.

In addition, the miniature golf Manhattan-style players you encounter—as well as hundreds of players elsewhere, on over 5,000 mini-golf courses—might just be members of miniature golf clubs, groups who hold tournaments and offer first prizes of $1,000-$1,500 and finals championship awards up to $10,000. (That's a great many more mini-golf games you could continue to play.)

So, miniature golf Manhattan-style may not have acreage in the hundreds (though 20+ acres seems plenty for a single grueling 45-minute game), and it may not have the traps and trees, but it does--as does the mini-course at Pier 25, on the banks of the Hudson—have theme park appeal, some healthy challenges, and most delightfully…multicolored golf balls. So with a little imagination, the leeway you allow will have you feeling like you're on the PGA fairways, playing Tiger Woods, David Duval, or the memories of Arnold and Ben.

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