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Josh Clark

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

Yeah, golf course is just shorter and therefore doesn't take as long.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

Yeah, and it's not like the hole is smaller and the ball is smaller and the clubs are smaller.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

Like, just get out of your fantasy land there.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

Instead, it's just the distance from the tee to the hole is shorter.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

There's fewer bends and stuff like that.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

the actual experience takes less time and less energy and you can just kind of fit it in in a shorter amount of time.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

And I think that's the popularity of those things generally.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

Although pitch and putt courses I also saw, they usually consist of a wedge, an iron, and a putter, what you need to play on those.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

And they're all about the focus on the short game.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

And as a result, men and women, just average men and women who play golf can kind of compete pretty evenly because it's all about the short game.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

It's all about finesse rather than, you know, just sheer power of driving as far as you can on like a traditional golf course.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

I mean, I love golf.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

I just don't play anymore.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

Like I grew up playing golf and โ€“

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

was not good, but I wasn't terrible for as much as I played.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

And I still like it.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

I just don't, you know, have the time or the inclination anymore.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

But I like the big boy courses with the big par fives, but I also love a fun little par three.