Mendon Driving Range Miniature Golf Return to Massachusetts Page

Route 16

Mendon, MA
478-6295

Price: $3.00

Par: 44

Difficulty: 2

Creativity: 2

Atmosphere: 4

From the moment we laid eyes on this course, we knew we’d be playing a campy miniature golf that had probably been build 20-30 years earlier and wasn’t in the best upkeep. Every now and then you have to play a course like this to keep the world in check. As long as the course is decent enough so that you’re not miserable the whole time, then you won’t feel as if you’ve thrown away your money. (A good thing about courses like this is that that tend to be cheap.) This course actually ended up wowing us on a few points.

First, the balls aren’t your normal solid colors. This course uses sports painted balls so that we ended up with a football and a soccer ball (if you’re in Europe I guess they would both be footballs) in our little twosome. The course is also the only one we’ve played to this point (which makes about 30-40 courses) that offers putters with metal heads and with rubber heads so that you can choose your favorite. The course also features a theme that revolves around the nearby zoo. The carpets, however, are in terrible condition and although it seems as if some work has been done on the course (painting the sides of the holes), some of the obstacles need repair or paint jobs.

The course definitely isn’t worth going out of your way for, but if you have a few extra minutes and you’re on Route 16 you might as well stop and play. At the price they’re charging you can’t go too wrong even if the course does have its share of bald patches and broken plaster.

Reviewed by Pat, Mandy and Putt

Reviewed in 2002

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Course Pictures (click to enlarge)