Josh Clark

It's challenging.

Apparently, in the 65-year history of putt-putt, there have only been three perfect games where you walk away with a score of 18, which is really tough to do.

I mean, like, of the millions and millions of games of putt-putt that people have played, only three people have ever, ever gotten a perfect game, which kind of shows you how, like, deceptively hard a putt-putt course is, you know?

Like, each one of those courses is made of, I think they have something like 108...

trademarked holes like lanes I think is what they're called in miniature golf where you can just kind of take them and reconfigure them into different configurations but they have 108 total and I guess each one of them is very very difficult I don't ever remember getting a perfect game or even imagining that I was going to get a perfect game you get two or three holes in one and that's a good day

For sure.

So 18, there's actually a short, I think, seven and a half minute Grantland documentary on the most recent perfect putt-putt game by a guy named Rick Baird, who had his perfect game in 2011.

Can you imagine the tension on hole 18?

They capture it really well in this documentary.

It's really well done.

They've got like a cartoon version of him putting, and he's got like cartoon sweat just running down his face.

Oh, man.

Yeah.

It was very nervous, and he did it.

And he's actually a miniature golf pro in his spare time, which we'll talk about later.

So he's from Charlotte.

Don Clayton was from Fayetteville, and then Joseph Barber was from Pinehurst.

So it seems pretty clear that North Carolina is the ancestral home of miniature golf, or at least the spiritual home of miniature golf in the world, frankly.

I'm just going to say it in the world.

Yeah, and if you're looking for the creators of the kind of mechanized courses, you can go to 1955 and Scranton, PA with Ralph and Al Loma.