Josh Clark

But they were, in an account of the competition, they coined the term miniature golf.

Up to that point, a lot of people had called it Lilliputian golf.

Sure, yeah.

after the little people in Gulliver's Travels.

And that name actually stuck for quite a while.

So we've got James Barber, who hosted or built the first miniature golf course

course in america but still this thing is like directly connected to the ladies putting club of saint andrews it's a golf course in miniature we still haven't quite reached what we would consider miniature golf and that wouldn't happen until 1926 which turned out to be a really big year for miniature golf in america it was like there was something in the air and a few different people kind of tapped into it around the same time and it suddenly just took off like a rocket

Yeah, two of the guys were some entrepreneurs named Drake Delanoi, I guess.

Great name.

And John Ledbetter, another good name.

That's okay.

He sounds like he'll shoot you.

Ledbetter?

Yeah.

Yeah, I can see that.

they did a pretty cool thing, which is they opened up a course on top of a rooftop in the financial district in New York.

And that kicked off a trend.

There were, I think, about 100 of those on top of roofs.

I guess it was before the big rooftop bar hotel scene.

They had golf courses up there.