2024 Putt Putnam County

Putt Putnam County looking down Franklin Street in Greencastle Indiana
Mini golf holes lined up down Franklin Street for this year’s Putt Putnam County.

With perfect weather and a great crowd, our 8th annual Putt Putnam County was memorable in many ways! This year we had 16 community built mini-golf holes lined down Franklin Street on Friday October 4th for anyone to play a round in downtown Greencastle, our largest number of holes yet.

Ghost Ship golf hole
Young girl watches her golf ball walk the plank into the shark’s mouth.

With so many interesting mini-golf holes, it was hard to pick a favorite. We had a mix of new and a few popular holes from previous years – for this blog post I’ll mention some of the newest ones. But I will note Putt Putnam Virtually, last year’s hole simulator where you hit a golf ball down the streets of downtown Greencastle, was updated with obstacles on Washington Street – just like the real thing!

Guitar hole
“Playing Along” was a simple but challenging shot up the neck.

At one end was Greencastle High School’s Ghost Ship, a very popular multi-tier hole & perhaps the most elaborately built new one this year. On the courthouse end Putnam County Public Library had a Beetlejuice Beetlejuice themed hole.

Laser Alert! mini-golf hole
The fog machine made the Lasers easier to see

The guitar hole also presented one of the toughest challenges this year – the guitar frets gave a bumpy roll. A last minute addition, Laser Alert!, had great visual effects & was extremely popular with the kids.

With 16 holes this year, there are too many to mention in this post so I’ll work on adding a slide show to the Putt Putnam County project page. And of course it’s not to early to start thinking about next year, we’ll have the 2025 event on Friday October 3rd. Start coming up with ideas now!

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