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Noun
midget golf (uncountable)
- (dated) Miniature golf.
1930 May, Earl Sparling, “The Midget Golf Revolution”, in Vanity Fair, volume 34, number 4, page 70:Midget golf has reduced golf's perspective to half an acre, and what was lately a social privilege turns out to be a Rube Goldberg whimsy.
1956 June, “Some people make money from golf”, in Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 10, number 6, page 17:"Midget" golf, a national passion 25 years ago, has been making an unspectacular but steady comeback.
1963 December 6, Brenda Frazier, “I Was a Fad -- like Midge Golf”, in LIFE, volume 55, number 23:I was a fad that year — the way midget golf was once a fad, or flagpole sitting.
2001, Dale Samuelson, Wendy Yegoiants, The American Amusement Park, →ISBN:This garden-turned-golf-course, named Thistle Dhu, was not only the first midget golf course to contain all the pleasurable elements of the real game, but may have also been the reason early miniature golf was referred to as garden golf.
2010, Paul Donnelley, Firsts, Lasts & Onlys of Golf, →ISBN:The first miniature golf course was laid out on the summit of Lookout Mountain. It was an 18-hole course complete with doglegs, sand traps and water hazards and was the brainchild of hotelier John Garnet Carter, who patented the name Tom Thumb, the name of a midget golf system.