Create an Adventure for Your Miniature Golf Course
Miniature golf projects begin with a great custom design, matched to the owner's budget, and to the market potential. We at Adventure Golf believe miniature golf is a very personal business where the owner has a vision of what he wishes to build. We listen and then embellish those ideas, offer advice, and design a course that is an adventure creative, imaginative, whimsical and fun, but within budget.
Arne Lundmark believes that miniature golf is at its greatest if it starts with fun, embellishes with a generous landscape plan with topographical interest, and introduces themed scenes, special effects and interactive golf features to help the story line. "I believe we have gone back to the future", comments Lundmark. "In the 50's and 60's courses were interesting to look at with their larger than life caricature type themed elements. These courses provided fun such as shooting through a windmill or a clown face and the family enjoyed and remembered the experience.
“Then in the 1980s we helped launch the trend toward adventure style and landscape courses. Now we are seeing more of the fun of the 50’s and 60’s introduced into miniature golf courses creating a more interesting golf course that is more fun to play. We still build mountain style courses and lush landscape courses but whenever budget permits, or the owner agrees we create more show.
“When I design your course, I ask myself these questions, ‘Where is the show, and how can I make this course more fun?’ We are always looking for more ways to put the ball through, over, around, or under obstacles and other parts of the golf hole. We like sound and other special effects. We try to create as many ways to get to the hole cup as possible and we like it when the ball changes course or goes into an unexpected hazard or direction. All this is done while still giving players an opportunity for a hole in one.”
If you want your new miniature golf course to be a landscape course, a themed course, or an adventure style course, or some combination of all three your design is in good hands. Arne has designed hundreds of custom courses, each with its own personality and fun factor and not a carbon copy of another course. Arne has been designing ADA compliant courses for more than 10 years and will be sure your course meets future needs.
Something for Everyone Our Menu of Custom Miniature Golf Services
Adventure Golf Services has a custom mini golf course idea and budget to fit everyone’s needs. Check out these golf design and construction services:
Mini Golf Design & Turnkey Construction: We design and we build. It’s simple. If you wish to have the comfort of knowing every detail is not your worry then this is for you. We will include whatever is needed. This usually requires an investment from $100,000 and up.
Custom Projects: When something special is needed clients use Adventure Golf Services. Whether it is building on a cruise ship as we did with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, or designing a mini golf course that spans three floors for the Mall of America, or creating an interactive course for Ripley’s Entertainment Arne Lundmark is the senior designer in the business and does each job with personal attention and oversight.
Mini Golf Design & You Provide Some Services: This popular option is a convenient way to save money. Many clients wish to provide fill and rough grade, or sub-contract for electrical, lighting, landscaping and irrigation. This is no problem, we are here to help you.
We Design and You Build: Many clients have construction skills and want to build their own miniature golf course. Since we are here to please, this is easy for us to do. You get the same custom design, all construction documents, consulting by Arne Lundmark and a supervisor in the field for a short time if needed.
Project Management: For some elaborate projects where the owner chooses to build his own mini golf course, we offer project management. This puts a man on site to counsel, advise and look over your shoulder during the construction process.
Design for Bid Projects: Many park districts, public entities are required to go through a bid process but need a design package with all construction documents. We have done this many times and welcome this business so your city, county, or state can have our custom miniature design program.
Design for Presentation Projects: Private and public clients seek our assistance to design a mini golf course for presentation to zoning boards to secure approval of the project.
$60,000 Course: For persons who wish to be in the miniature golf business with a limited budget or small market this may be the option for you. This course includes a smaller foot print course with completed golf holes and sidewalks only. To add a waterfall, stream and pond add another $15,000. Price may be subject to change based on location.
Miniature Golf Business Plan Assistance: Adventure Golf Services and Arne Lundmark have worked with many clients who need assistance creating a business plan. We have a program to help with creating a plan, analyzing and forecasting potential sales levels, estimating operating costs, researching sites and zoning and course design and construction.
Mini Golf Renovations: Adventure Golf has done as many or more renovations as anyone in the industry. The report from the field is that our renovations create more sales and pay for themselves in a short time.
Adventure Golf Services has an idea and course budget to fit your needs. For example we have created a $60,000 on-site course for campgrounds and other venues, a black light course for indoor applications and we are selling a portable course for all applications. Check out these downloadable ideas and let us know what works for you.
All of our courses are notable, and here are a few:
- General Motors Corp., Hyatt hills Golf, Clark NJ
- Ripley Entertainment's Davy Crocket course, 36 holes Gatlinburg, TN
- Planet Golf, Academy of Natural Sciences, portable 18 holes Philadelphia, PA
- Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Miami, FL
- Golf Mountain, Mall of America, Minneapolis, MN
- Coral Cay Adventure Golf, 36 holes Naples, FL
- Colorado Experience, 36 holes South Suburban Park District, Denver, CO
- Mystic Creek, Milford MI
- Pirates Caribbean Adventure 36 holes, Taylor MI
- Victorian Park, Salem, NH
- Timber Falls, 54 holes Wisconsin Dells, WI
- Crystal Caves, Worcester, MA
- Walden's Landing, 36 holes Pigeon Forge, TN
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