According to Mark Twain: "Golf is a good walk spoiled". However, since he died in 1910 he lived his life without the joys of miniature golf. The world's first mini-golf course was opened in the 1920s, but it was not until the 1970s, when international tourism exploded, that the popularity for mini-golf led to new courses sprouting up in green pastures across the world. Mini-golf provides entertainment for those who enjoy the challenge of diverting the mini-balls past majestic mountains, swooping windmills, medieval castles, and an Egyptian sphinx. All this and more can be found in the courses in...