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From Wikipedia

Miniature golf, also known as mini-golf, minigolf, is a game modelled after the sport of golf. The term putt putt is a trademark of a miniature golf company, but is commonly used to describe the sport of miniature golf.

There are a variety of miniature golf courses, five of which are officially recognised: the most common of these are beton and eternit. As in golf, courses are commonly nine or eighteen holes long (or less commonly twelve) and the object is to hit the golf ball into the appropriate hole in the fewest strokes; however, in the miniature game, the holes are significantly shorter and consist of only a putting surface. The game is made challenging by an arrangement of obstacles, ramps, and bunkers. It is a popular pastime in many areas of the world, especially among families.

Miniature Golf Course types

Felt course (front) and eternite course (rear), in Malmö

All competitions approved by World Minigolfsport Federation are played on standardized courses, whose design has been checked to be suitable for competitive play. The WMF currently approves four different course types:

* beton[21] (abbreviated B, sometimes called "Bongni", "Minigolf" or "Abteilung 1")

* eternite[22] (abbreviated E (in Sweden EB), sometimes called "Europabana", "Miniaturgolf" or "Abteilung 2"),

* felt[23] (abbreviated F or SFR, sometimes called "Swedish felt runs"), and

* Minigolf Open System[24] (abbreviated "O", "OS" or "MOS"). The latter non-standardized playing system, MOS, covers all minigolf courses that the three standardized systems (B, E, F) do not cover.