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  2. Miniature golf - Wikipedia

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    A rare surviving example from this period is the Parkside Whispering Pines Miniature Golf Course located near Rochester, New York, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. [8] The first miniature golf course in Canada was at the Maples Inn in Pointe-Claire, Quebec. The "Mapes" was constructed as a summer home in the 1890s ...

  3. Parkside Whispering Pines - Wikipedia

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    Parkside Whispering Pines, once known as Tall Maples Miniature Golf Course, is a miniature golf course and national historic district located at the hamlet of Sea Breeze in the Town of Irondequoit in Monroe County, New York. It was built in 1930 and is a rare surviving example of a miniature golf course that dates from the sport's first period ...

  4. Rock City (attraction) - Wikipedia

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    One feature of Fairyland was going to be a golf course, but Garnet decided instead to build a miniature golf course because the original took too long to build. He later franchised his miniature golf concept as Tom Thumb Golf, now recognized as the nation's first mini-golf course. Fairyland was 700 acres (2.8 km 2) and encompassed Rock City.

  5. From the oldest course to the longest hole, NY holds the ...

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    The nation's oldest miniature golf course is right in Rochester's backyard.

  6. Garnet Carter - Wikipedia

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    John Garnet Carter (Feb. 9, 1883, in Sweetwater, Tennessee – July 21, 1954) [1] [2] was an American inventor and entrepreneur who is considered one of the fathers of miniature golf. In 1927, Carter was the first to patent a version of the game which he called "Tom Thumb Golf". His course was built on Lookout Mountain in Georgia where Carter ...

  7. List of golf courses designed by Old Tom Morris - Wikipedia

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    He also laid out The Himalayas, 9-hole putting course in St Andrews in 1867 for the St Andrews Ladies Golf Club. It lies next to the Old Course, north of the Swilcan Burn . It is thought that it was the first minigolf or 'miniature links' course in the world, and it's now both a 9-hole and 18-hole putting course.

  8. Maples Inn - Wikipedia

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    Maples Inn (Pointe-Claire, Quebec), home of the first miniature golf course in Canada; The Maples Inn, also known as Hampton Inn (New Canaan, Connecticut) Maples Inn, onetime name of N. S. Williams House, East Taunton, Massachusetts

  9. Thomas McCulloch Fairbairn (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    Thomas McCulloch Fairbairn was an American cotton processing plant owner and golf fanatic who is widely recognized as the inventor of modern miniature golf. Fairbairn is credited with changing minigolf from the earlier incarnation played at Thistle Dhu in Pinehurst, North Carolina to the modern version. Fairbairn's invention of an artificial ...

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