A Guide To Building A Mini Golf Course

Various Steps For The Mini Golf Course Design

A mini golf course can be a great asset to an amusement park. These courses provide a fun play area for healthy family competition and a great outdoor activity. The right course, with the good design, can prove to be profitable. Families may visit at the start of their holiday and have such fun that they come back for an hour later in the week.

It is all about having fun, easy-to-follow layout with a right balance between challenge and reward. There are three steps to creating the perfect, family-friendly mini golf experience: designing, building, and reviewing.

 Designing The Mini Golf Course

The first thing that you need to do is put together a plan of the course. This will help you get an idea of the overall design and materials needed. It is important to understand just how much space you have available and how to make the most of it. You need enough space to create a recognizable route for the players to follow and allow enough room for boarders and landscaping. An area short on space could benefit from a bridge.

Start with a basic outline of the different areas and see how they fit together. Once you have your shapes, you can work on customizing the holes. There should be plenty of variety between the shots to keep players amused and ease congestion on busy days. A low-par hole with some basic angles should be followed by a trickier shot with some barriers and ramps. Once you have your design in place, you can then start to calculate the materials needed and start building.

 Building The Mini Golf Course

Ideally, the holes should be created on flat base surfaces of concrete or hard-packed sand. Each hole can have it own dips and ramps to add the challenge, but they should be part of the design. There are four simple elements to a basic mini golf hole: the “grass”, the hole, the boundaries and the obstacles.

The grass surface can be create using an artificial turf or short-pile carpet. The hole is forms by inserting an appropriate container with a diameter of 108mm. The boundaries can be laid out with materials of your choice. Bricks and wooden boards are a great starting point.

The obstacles are then up to you and your budget. You can put in anything you want to enhance the challenge and fit the theme, as long as it is safe and secure. Simple PVC piping is ideal for sneaky tunnels to other parts of the course. Make sure to buy in more materials than you need. You will need them later for repairs and modifications.

Once the basic course is in place and there are is a clear path between the holes, all that is left are the finishing touches. There may be more of these than you expect. Again, this all comes down to the budget and brief.

What sort of plants can you add around the holes? What design features will enhance the theme? Lighting is a major factor so consider bringing in solar power generators for cost-effective illumination. As long as you remember the final touches, you should be ready to go. Add the flags to the holes, spray paint each starting point and provide enough putters and balls.

Reviewing The Mini Golf Course

You might think that the work is done once the final flag is in, the paintwork is dry and the doors finally open. The physical course is complete, and all the major work is done, but now you need to review your efforts. The first thing to do now is to give the course a test run.

Bring in family members and kids that haven’t seen the designs get a genuine reaction to the layout and challenging settings. After a few rounds, you can figure out the average scores for each hole and use them to determine the par. If you find that you have three low-par holes in a row, look for ways of modifying the middle one.

Your course will be open to reviews, modifications, and maintenance as long as it is open. This applies to everything from the paintwork and aesthetic extras to the quality of the playing surface and solar power generators. Keep an eye on the scorecards to check the difficulty settings and work to make improvements wherever they are suggest. The more that you enhance the park and adapt to player needs, the more likely they are to come back.