MINIGOLF COURSES AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

    
     As you all know, golf is a widespread sports in the world. Usually, very large and golf friendly areas are required to play this sports. Consequently, it has not been possible for golf to be accessible to people of all ages and situations. That is why; Minigolf was created out of necessity.

The Historical Background of Minigolf:

Minigolf was the smaller form of the traditional at the beginning of the 1900s. It was then called “garden golf and was played on real grass with a metal-headed club. Between 1920 and 1930, they started putting borders to get the ball to say inside those borders. In addition, they tried to make the course smoother by covering it with cotton seed. More than 150 minigolf courses were built only New York in the 1930s.The number of minigolf courses in all countries exceeded 30 000. At the of the year 1930, the first Minigolf tournament (international Tom Thumb Open Minigolf Tournament) took place with 48 competing countries. The price was $10 000 and there were more than 200 players. As people stepped on the golf course in their everyday shoes the course covered with cotton seeds was torn. That is why , golf course owners started to look for materials that would make the courses smooth, cheap, durable and easy it from a carpet. They tried almost everything. It was very difficult and expensive to make it from a carpet. In the end, they found a combination of goat’s hair and volcanized caouthouc . As it was cheap and durable it became very popular in the 1940s. and 1950s. When in the 1960s, synthetic carpet covering were used on football fields, Minigolf courses also started to be covered with similar materials. It became very popular in the 1980s.People started to build minigolf courses near touristic and entertainment centers. In this way , minigolf became know and widespread. The minigolf corse of the 1990s tooks as their basis the minigolf ther had been played in the 1920s and 1930s.