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Imagine it's 1977. You slide into your butt-hugging embroidered Jordache Jeans; you find your groovy-ist butterfly collar; and you head out the door in your 1976 Gremlin on your way to the most
radical place-to-be if you dig it: LAGOON. "Jungle Boogie" by Kool and the Gang blares over the loud speakers as you enter through the park's gates straight past all attractions, directly to
Putter Around the Park, Utah's most amazing miniature golf course. The course is laced with amazing obstacles: a ferris wheel that captures your ball and flings it toward the hole, a log-fume tunnel
system that dares you to putt for the wrong opening, a swinging pirate ship that blocks the path of another hole. If John Travolta miniature golfed, the man would be here!
Twenty years later, the course still lies in the middle of the Lagoon Amusement park, just off of I-15, 15 miles north of Salt Lake City, but it has not evolved…at all! The obstacles, the putters
given, the balls used, the qualities of the greens are the same used in the glory of the 70's. The problem with the Lagoon course is that the park has done nothing to keep Putter Around the Park current
with the times. 1977 was 20 years ago! Imagine the frustration we felt at hole #16 hitting a cruddy-looking Lagoon ball at a non-operational ferris wheel obstacle that had a destroyed, molested opening.
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Don't get me wrong, the majority of the obstacles have held up okay. There's a great basketball obstacle, a pretty cool roller-coaster hole, and even a (only in Utah) hole in which you hit the ball
through a covered wagon. But I guess one bad apple can spoil the bunch for some people.
If you can get over the crappy equipment, a couple broken obstacles, and the pimple-faced geek working the front desk, the course is great. A must play. If not, stay away from Lagoon, its 70's appearance,
and most importantly Putter Around the Park.
Try and obtain "Stake Lagoon ticket" given out to churches and other non-profits, which gets you in the gate for free and a dollar off mini-golf.
Paul S. Hemingway, PMGA 7/98
Best score reported: 50 - Shane Jacobs 6/98
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