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2020 Putt Putnam County Mini Golf

Unfortunately caught Covid-19 like many other Putnam County events. With the event being held the last 2 years at First Friday in downtown Greencastle (which has been canceled for the rest of 2020) and indoor restrictions we’ve postponed the event for this year. There’s a chance we’ll have a few of last year’s holes on display at a Saturday Farmer’s Market in October.

2018 Putt Putnam County looking down Franklin Street.

This family-oriented event is open to anyone in the community. It’s a great opportunity for your family, a group of friends or organizations in Putnam County to work together making a mini-golf hole. Here’s the 2019 guidelines. You can also read about the previous competitions in a 2018 blog post,  2017 and 2016. Also be sure to check out our PuttCode competition, programming Lego robots to drop a golf ball into one of the mini-golf holes.

Picture from the 2016 Putt Putnam County at PCPL.

The event started in 2016 as a miniature golf course building competition for youth, which we held at the Putnam County Public Library. The original 7 holes were built in groups of 3-5 people per team, along with a mentor to help the younger groups. In 2017 it was open to everyone and we had the putt-offs on Franklin Street.

2018 Highlights

2017 Highlights

2016 Highlights

  • This hole won best Putnam County themed hole, even though the moving covered bridge didn’t get completed.
  • Platform construction working into the night.
  • Second team works on layout at the makerspace, while another team admires the “zombie fish” being printed for Halloween.
  • DePauw student team start building their miniature golf hole.