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How to Play Miniature Golf at Home

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By Calista Lee
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Miniature golf can be a fun way to spend time on a date, with your spouse, or with your kids. However, you don't need to go to a fancy course. Stay home and make your own miniature golf course as a family, and learn that making the course is just as much fun as playing it.

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • Cups
  • Shovel
  • Lawnmower
  • Boards
  • Kid pool
  1. Step 1

    Split up and have each member of your family scour the house and grab anything they can to make a golf hole. Everyone is in charge of getting 2 or 3 holes.

  2. Step 2

    Grab boards (long and short), chairs, cups, your little sister's swimming pool, old tires, your bike--whatever you want.

  3. Step 3

    Go into the backyard or in the house and start building the holes. If you don't have a lot of space, you can go to a park or even build a couple holes at a time--they don't have to be complicated.

  4. Step 4

    Blow up the kiddie pool and fill it with water. Have a ramp, or long board going up one side and a large cup for the hole in the middle of the pool or on the other side.

  5. Step 5

    Turn your bike over and have a ramp going up towards it and one on the other side leading to the hole. Spin the wheel for added difficulty in getting it through.

  6. Step 6

    Use chairs or other household appliances that the golfer has to hit under, through, from or over. Think creative crouquet.

  7. Step 7

    Use a sand box as a trap with a ramp going halfway over it.

  8. Step 8

    Hit the ball down the stairs and have multiple sized cups at the bottom. The small ones are worth more points.

  9. Step 9

    Set a course that you have to go around. For instance, for hole 3, you have to hit it around a tree, then under a chair and over a ramp before you try for the hole.

  10. Step 10

    Hit it down the slide on your swingset or through the swings or a tire swing as it moves back and forth. Use a ramp or try to hit it in the air with the help of a tee.

Tips & Warnings
  • Be creative. The more fun you have building it, the more fun you will have playing it and re-inventing new holes.
  • Be careful when swinging a club that no one is around you. Use tennis balls if necessary, especially with little kids.

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