History of Miniature Golf - Part 2

There was a gradual transition from the basic putting courses into what we commonally think of as a traditional style miniature golf course (windmills, loop the loops, castles, etc). The Tom Thumb courses were started in the 1927 by Garnet Carter. They used landscaping and artificial greens composed of cotton seed hulls, sand, oil and dye invented by Thomas McCulloch Fairbairn in the early 1920's.

Then in the post depression era of the late 1930's Joseph and Robert Taylor came out with miniature golf courses that had not just banks and curves and landscaping, but the obstacles that many of us associate with miniature golf. They had windmills, castles, wishing wells, loop the loops, etc. They evenutally went into business manufacturing courses and obstacles, and by the mid 1950's many miniature golf courses had obstacles that had been ordered from the Taylor Brothers catalog.