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Josh Clark

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Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

What a sportsman.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

Oh, my goodness.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

Well, we'll talk about go-karts one day more in depth, but today we're just going to focus on the miniature golf, okay?

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

Yeah, this is a pretty interesting history, I think.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

Yeah, I had no idea how far back it went until we started researching this.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

And actually, it goes all the way back to the 19th century.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

And this is one of those rare things that's been around a while, but you can actually pinpoint like the first one.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

And the first miniature golf course in the world, as far as anybody knows, is at St.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

Andrews.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

It's the Ladies' Putting Club of St.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

Andrews.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

And it was built in 1867 strictly for the women members of the Ladies' Putting Club.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

Yeah, there's a couple of things at play here, actually really just one thing, which is not letting women do things.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

Because there was a decree basically that women shall not take the club back past their shoulder.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

The 11th commandment.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

Yeah, like a real golf swing in other words was I guess improper for a lady to do.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

The Victorian era was just so stupid when it came to social constraints.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

I'm trying to figure out why.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

Does thatβ€”I don't know.