Putt PUTnam County

2021 Putt Putnam County Mini Golf

The 2021 Putt Putnam County will be held on Friday, October 1rst on Franklin Street during downtown Greencastle’s First Friday.

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. We’ll post the 2021 guidelines soon, in the meantime here’s the previous 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.

2019 Highlights

A local & crowd favorite, it was made with leftover baby doll head planter parts.
The mega:bit mini-golf hole that had a 20x sized micro:bit which was programmed to play a tune and count how many golf balls went into the hole.
Putnam County Public Library’s Alice in Wonderland entry. Don’t fall down the rabbit hole!

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.

Greencastle Indiana's Makerspace!