The history of miniature golf and minigolf

Mini golf, mini golf or the United Kingdom, is a miniature version of the game of golf. Although the international sports association "World Minigolf Sport Federation preferred the name" Mini Golf ", the public has many other names for this mini-golf. In addition to the mini-golf, is also known as mini-golf, mini golf, Goofy golf, mini golf, shorts, golf resort, golf and adventure called mini-putt.

In the U.S., may also be calledas "Choo-Choo," which is a hallmark of American society, and builds mini golf franchise and Family Entertainment Centers. "Mini Golf" was a term that originally registered trademarks of a Swedish company, the courses of their own patent built on a sort of mini golf.

One of the first courses on the European continent was built by Fr. Schröder in Hamburg, Germany in 1926. Fri Schroeder was inspired by a recent visit to the U.S., where he had seenminiature golf courses spread throughout the country.

Edwin O. Norrman and Eskil Norman visited the United States, where he spent several years has seen the golden age of American minigolf boom. They are back in Sweden, founded in 1930 and 1931, a "Norman Norrman och Miniatyrgolf." Companies started the development of standardized courses for the Swedish market. During the early '30s, they released this new sport in Sweden through the installation of mini-golf coursespublic parks and other places.

U.S. manufacturers were using a newly developed and patented was when the surface of their courses. Swedish courses not to use felt, but the sand tennis court. The playing surface was surrounded by a rectangular frame of wood. Felt was not popular in Sweden until the middle of the 1960th Since then, he is almost the only material to surface in Britain and Scandinavia for its quality preferably used in case of rain. With Felt, the gamebe played in rain, since they can infiltrate the water and soil. Other materials allow rainwater in cisterns to collect the ball that prevents rolling.

Swedish Svenska 1937 Bangolfforbundet Minigolf Federation was founded in the year, is the oldest association of mini-golf in the world. Swedish national championships have been played every year since 1939. Because of the postwar economic depression, mini golfClub were founded in other countries until the end of 1950.