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Josh Clark

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Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

And it was part of that whole sort of interconnected scene there with Rock City and Ruby Falls.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

And they built a miniature golf course.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

And they said, you know what?

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

If you like golf, maybe you should try mini golf because it doesn't take very long.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

It'll kind of scratch that itch if you're not able to play a real round.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

And that's sort of how they marketed it at first.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

And they were the first people, I think, to start adding the obstacles, right?

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

They did, yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

And they used, as they were building like the inn and the resort complex, they used some of the construction materials like drain pipes and, you know, barrels and things like that and built them as hazards.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

And then because they had this whole like fairytale theme going up there, they also built Rock City.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

They were the ones who built Rock City.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

And that has like a cool little weird, weird but also very neat fairytale theme kind of hidden throughout.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

They added that to their miniature golf course.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

So they had these stationary obstacles and hazards that they added.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

And then they also added this statuary of cute little, you know, Mother Goose type stuff.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

And they actually called the whole thing Tom Thumb Golf.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

Tom Thumb, from what I understand, is the earliest recorded English fairy tale character from back in 1621.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

And he was a little tiny guy the size of his father's thumb, which is where he got his name.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Miniature Golf Works

So it was a pretty appropriate name.