United States Putting Association

11/19/2017

www.unitedstatesputting.org

04/03/2017

04/03/2017

Qualifying for the USPA Leader Board Stroke-Play totals has now begun at Tom’s BBQ & Mini Golf in Keystone Heights, Florida USA. www.UnitedStatesPutting.org – United States Putting Association and the "Easter Bunny Open Mini Golf Sport Championship" sanctioned and held by the United States Putting Association – USPA. Here is all the information you’ll need with qualifying rounds commencing immediately at Tom's BBQ & Mini Golf on SR 100 in Keystone Heights, Florida. Just have your best score verified by one of Tom’s BBQ & Mini Golf Staff members & turn in your scorecard. Practice Rounds are charged at their very low mini golf green fees. You must be a registered player of the USPA in order to enter the “Easter Bunny Open”. Registration fees are only $50 USD annually.

FYI - this is an Internationally Approved MicroGolf MOS (Minigolf Open Standard) 18 hole mini golf course design and build by Cost of Wisconsin, Jackson, WI USA, a Corporate Sponsor of the World Mini Golf Sport Federation – WMF headquartered in Bamberg, Germany. Cost of Wisconsin and its owner, Jon Stanwyck was a member of the international traveling Team USA in the 90’s. His wife is from Latvia and still plays in the American Masters and also in some of the more prestigious World Mini Golf Sport Federation – WMF sanctioned events that are now well established in 63 member nations, on all continents with over 38,000 registered Mini Golf Sport players worldwide. The WMF sanctions over 1,500 tournaments and championships annually.

The USPA is NOT affiliated with the WMF but has its own sanctioning team of Technical Advisors and basically, follows the rules and regulation of regulation golf under the Umbrella of the World Golf Foundation & The First Tee headquartered at the World Golf Village and the World Golf Hall of Fame in historic St. Augustine, Florida USA. Tom’s BBQ and Mini Golf featuring the internationally approved MicroGolf is an interactive mini golf course and its highlights, obstacles, etc. depicts all the wildlife in the State of Florida together with the MicroGolf course having moguls, undulations, sand traps, tier or plateau holes and misting spray fans and much more as you will see in the photos and also in the Mp4 videos posted now until Easter weekend when the Final Four for the Youth and the Open Division will be known by the best stroke-play totals appearing on the Leader Board.

Qualifying for "The Cut" will begin right away leading to the Top 54 best players with the lowest Stroke-Play totals on the Leader Board displayed at Tom's Real High on the Hog BBQ & Mini Golf late on Good Friday, April 14th, 2017. Then those 54 best players in both the Youth Division and the “Open” Division will play four rounds with a Shot-Gun starting early on Saturday, April 14th, 2017 with the Youth Division (under 12 years of age) teeing off first followed by the “Open” Division (any age and any gender) immediately following the Youth Division with its Final Four and, of course we will have to go into night play to see who the Final Four will be in the “Open” Division. The Youth Division’s Final Four will tee off for an final four rounds on Easter Sunday, April 16th, 2017 at around 10:30 A.M. following by the “Open” Division Final Four best putters at around 1 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time. After four rounds of stroke-play totals a winner should be known, however, in case of a tie, a roll-off or sudden death will take place – if this happens – stay there because the putting is fast and exciting during a Sudden Death Play-off – just look and view the video from back in the 1995 Miniature Golf Association of America – MGAA Sudden Death at Buddy World in New Smyrna Beach, Florida USA. Watch and see who wins out of the three Europeans & one American comprising the field of the Final Four. FYI – this show was broadcast on New Year’s Day and was directed and filmed by PGA Tour Productions with a 6 camera filming crew.

The “Easter Bunny Open Final Four” for the Youth up to 12 years of age and the Final Four Mini Golf "Open" Players, is any age or any gender. Youth will play after Sunrise Church Services, Sunday the 16th of April, 2017 in the huge pavilion at Tom’s BBQ& Mini Golf around 10:00 a.m. The Youth Final Four will begin at 11 a.m. Then, lunch time with Tom’s delicious, High on the Hog Real BBQ food with the Final Four Open Mini Golfers teeing off at around 2 p.m. The champion be crowned around 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 16th, 2017. This should be a wonderful experience for everyone involved and similar to the USPA Mini Golf Sport National "Open" Championship held at Adventure Landing in historic St. Augustine, Florida this past December a week before Christmas. Remember to mark your calendars for this year’s USPA Mini Golf National Championship being held again at Adventure Landing in historic St. Augustine, Florida USA December 15th, 16th & 17, 2017.

Remember, the colleges, universities and schools will be out on Easter Break and The Cut group of players will tee off on Good Friday April 14th, continuing on Saturday the 15th with the Final Four for the Youth and the Open Championship Event being held on Easter Sunday, April 16th, 2017. Those signing up and turning in their official scores, witnessed by a Tom's BBQ staff member, will be held in the office of Tom's BBQ and Mini Golf up until "The Cut" is announced on Good Friday, April 14th 2017.

There will be NO exchanging of scorecards, once turned into the office, for a new and/or better scorecard! Each scorecard is numbered so duplicates cannot be turned in for a better score. So, practice now until you think you are ready for your best score for a total of four rounds and then wait until you see if your score makes it to “The Cut” of the final group of mini golfers then on to the Final Four on Friday, Saturday with the Final Four playing on Easter Sunday starting at 2 p.m. for the final four rounds with the best stroke-play total being crowned the “Easter Bunny Champ”.
Remember, a total combined round stroke-play total will be based on 4 rounds of qualifying of stroke-play totals for the Leader Board display on Good Friday, April 14th, 2017 & depending on how many sign up for this great putting event. We are hoping for the best 54 mini golfers in our nations to be listed on our Leader Board but we will wait and see how many sign-up to play one of the newest and best & approved for international play mini golf courses at Tom’s BBQ & Mini Golf in Keystone Heights, Florida. Olympic Medal-like awards will be given out to the Final Four plus other major prizes TBA.

To pay your required registration fee in order to play your practice rounds that start now until Good Friday, April 14th, 2017. Please contact the USPA at [email protected] or send your check, in the amount of $50 USD to the United States Putting Association - USPA, P.O. Box 14795, Jacksonville, FL 32238. To contact us by phone or text, please call or text 904-298-5145. Remember, hop on over to one of the most unique courses in the USA built by MicroGolf of Cost of Wisconsin who is one of the main corporate sponsors of the World Minigolf Sport Federation – WMF worldwide. www.unitedstatesputting.org.

Miniature Golf Association of America – MGAA
Mandarin Dance Association – non-profit, 501c7, est. 1987
USPA – United States Putting Association – non-profit organization est. 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNOPNcMESA0
WMF Best of Mini Golf
European Championship Vizela, Portugal 2016
https://youtu.be/qcN1BBF7MiM
WMF 2013 World Championship Promo Germany https://www.facebook.com/minigolfsport/videos/701678239938979/?video_source=pages_finch_trailer&theater
WMF 2010 Youth World Championship Sochi, Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49-xnyWGEkE
WMF 2015 World Championship Lahti, Finland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr44yGSl6PY
WMF 2013 World Championship Germany
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2AMWoZs7z0
WMF 2011 World Championship Stockholm, Sweden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2QjfL3ClO8
WMF 2012 European Championship Porto, Portugal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZxFm3o2png
WMF 2010 European Championship Predazzo, Italy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DccHSZFfodA
https://www.facebook.com/minigolfsport/

04/01/2017

03/29/2017

03/29/2017

News Release from the www.UnitedStatesPutting.org - United States Putting Association - USPA. It ceases to amaze us, here at the USPA headquarters mobile offices now in Jacksonville, after a successful USPA National Mini Golf Sport "Open" Championship at the Adventure Landing in historic St. Augustine, Florida USA of why everyone we talk to is so "Surprised" that Mini Golf Sport has been recognized by the IOC - International Olympic Committee as a possible venue for the summer Olympic Games - maybe in the summer games being held 2020 in Tokyo, Japan, but also in the 2021 World Games being held in Birmingham, Alabama and then into the summer Olympics by the year 2024.
This has always been the goal of the World Minigolf Sport Federation - WMF even when Mr. Walt "Skip" Laun of the Miniature Golf Association of America - MGAA was the First American Representative on the President's Board back in the 1990's. Back then there were only 12 member nations and maybe 5 to 6,000 registered mini golf sport players.
Since that time and with the help of the WMF President on the Sport Accord Board of Directors as its Secretary, the WMF or World Minigolf Sport Federation - WMF has now 63 member nations, on all continents with over 38,000 mini golf sport players worldwide. No wonder the IOC is interested in the mini golf venue! Very few new venues or even old Olympic venues can boast of these fantastic figure. FYI - The USPA - United States Putting Association is not an affiliate of the WMF and either is the MGAA - Miniature Golf Association of America but we applaud the good work of the WMF - World Minigolf Sport Federation now headquartered in Bamberg, Germany. Why? Because we all love Mini Golf! For more information about the Sport Accord just read below for their domain contacts. For more information about the USPA's upcoming Easter Bunny "Open" Championship on Easter weekend, go to - [email protected]. Here is who you, as a mini golf player should thank for their efforts of obtaining Mini Golf Sport recognition for the future summer Olympics and also the World Games. You will not find this information on Google or in Wikipedia on the internet!!
SPORTACCORD AGREES WITH PRINCIPLE OF MERGING WITH SPORTACCORD CONVENTION
11.11.2015
LAUSANNE, Switzerland – At the Extraordinary General Assembly of SportAccord held at the Hotel Royal Savoy in Lausanne, Switzerland on Wednesday 11th November, the members decided by large majority to authorize the SportAccord Council to negotiate with the Board of the SportAccord Convention to merge the organizations into one body. In spring 2016 the General Assembly of SportAccord will convene and review the proposed Statutes that will be established and submitted to the members.
Until the end of the year the members have been invited to submit any specific requests and ideas for the merged SportAccord entity that will be considered during the negotiations between the SportAccord Council and Board of the SportAccord Convention.
Interim Chairman of the SportAccord Council Gian Franco Kasper said: "Today represents an important message from the International Federations that we value SportAccord as our shared platform to interact, discuss topical issues, share problems and look for solutions. I appreciate the positive feedback and constructive approach from the members during today's SportAccord Extraordinary General Assembly and am convinced we have made a positive step".
For media inquiries, please email Jenny Edmondson, Media Relations Officer, SportAccord Convention at [email protected] or SportAccord at [email protected]

03/29/2017

Words & Photos of Wisdom from - www.UnitedStatesPutting.org – United States Putting Association is holding the "Easter Bunny Open Mini Golf Sport Championship" sanctioned and held by the United States Putting Association – USPA. Here is all the information you’ll need with qualifying rounds commencing immediately at Tom's BBQ & Mini Golf on SR 100 in Keystone Heights, Florida. Just have your best score verified by one of Tom’s BBQ & Mini Golf Staff members & turn in your scorecard. Practice Rounds are charged at their very low mini golf green fees. You must be a registered player of the USPA in order to enter the “Easter Bunny Open”. Registration fees are only $50 USD annually.

FYI - this is an Interactive Mini Golf course and its highlights, obstacles, etc. depicts all the wildlife in the State of Florida together with the MicroGolf course having moguls, undulations, sand traps, tier or plateau holes and misting spray fans and much more as you will see in the photos and also in the Mp4 videos posted now until Easter weekend when the Final Four for the Youth and the Open Division will be known by the best stroke-play totals appearing on the Leader Board. Qualifying for "The Cut" will begin right away leading to the Top 54 best players with the lowest Stroke-Play totals on the Leader Board displayed at Tom's Real High on the Hog BBQ & Mini Golf on Good Friday, April 14th, 2017.

The “Easter Bunny Open Final Four” for the Youth up to 12 years of age and the Final Four Mini Golf "Open" Players, is any age or any gender. Youth will play after Sunrise Church Services, Sunday the 16th of April, 2017 in the huge pavilion at Tom’s BBQ& Mini Golf around 10:00 a.m. The Youth Final Four will begin at 11 a.m. Then, lunch time with Tom’s delicious, High on the Hog Real BBQ food with the Final Four Open Mini Golfers teeing off at around 2 p.m. The champion be crowned around 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 16th, 2017. This should be a wonderful experience for everyone involved and similar to the USPA Mini Golf Sport National "Open" Championship held at Adventure Landing in historic St. Augustine, Florida this past December a week before Christmas. Remember to mark your calendars for this year’s USPA Mini Golf National Championship being held again at Adventure Landing in historic St. Augustine, Florida USA December 15th, 16th & 17, 2017.

Remember, the colleges, universities and schools will be out on Easter Break and The Cut group of players will tee off on Good Friday April 14th, continuing on Saturday the 15th with the Final Four for the Youth and the Open Championship Event being held on Easter Sunday, April 16th, 2017. Those signing up and turning in their official scores, witnessed by a Tom's BBQ staff member, will be held in the office of Tom's BBQ and Mini Golf up until "The Cut" is announced on Good Friday, April 14th 2017.

There will be no exchanging of scorecards, once turned into the office, for a new and/or better scorecard! Each scorecard is numbered so duplicates cannot be turned in for a better score. So, practice now until you think you are ready for your best score for a total of four rounds and then wait until you see if your score makes it to “The Cut” of the final group of mini golfers then on to the Final Four on Friday, Saturday with the Final Four playing on Easter Sunday starting at 2 p.m. for the final four rounds with the best stroke-play total being crowned the “Easter Bunny Champ”.
Remember, a total combined round stroke-play total will be based on 4 rounds of qualifying of stroke-play totals for the Leader Board display on Good Friday, April 14th, 2017 & depending on how many sign up for this great putting event. We are hoping for the best 54 mini golfers in our nations to be listed on our Leader Board but we will wait and see how many sign-up to play one of the newest and best & approved for international play mini golf courses at Tom’s BBQ & Mini Golf in Keystone Heights, Florida. Olympic Medal-like awards will be given out to the Final Four plus other major prizes TBA.

To pay your required registration fee in order to play your practice rounds that start now until Good Friday, April 14th, 2017. Please contact the USPA at [email protected] or send your check, in the amount of $50 USD to the United States Putting Association - USPA, P.O. Box 14795, Jacksonville, FL 32238. To contact us by phone or text, please call or text 904-298-5145. Remember, hop on over to one of the most unique courses in the USA built by MicroGolf of Cost of Wisconsin who is one of the main corporate sponsors of the World Minigolf Sport Federation – WMF worldwide. www.unitedstatesputting.org.

03/24/2017

03/24/2017

News Releae from - www.UnitedStatesPutting.Org - United States Putting Association & the history as told by Jenny at the Sport & Fun for Everyone complex soon to be renovated in Starke, Florida USA plus, we all love to play Mini Golf Sport, especially at the Toms's BBQ & Mini Golf Olympic Course. One of the only MOS - Mini Golf Open Standard appoved & sanctioned courses here in America, in fact, the only one in the NE Florida area.aloowed by the WMF - World Mini Golf Sport Federation - WMF, Bamberg, Germany. We are talking about the American "MOS" Olympic-style course built a year ago in Keystone Heights, Florida USA and a huge second course soo at the huge next door RV par k already underway with construction. We salute the owners of Tom's BBQ & Mini Golf.

Don't forget to join all the amateur putters from all over the nation on Easter weekend for the United States Putting Association - USPA Easter Bunny "Open" Championship with the Youth & the "Open" (any age & any gender) April, 14th, 15th & the Final Four for the Youth Teeing off at 11 a.m. on Easter morning and the "open" division players Teeing Off at 2 p.m. Come join in all the fun! For more information about practice rounds contact the USPA or Tom's BBQ & Mini Golf in Keystone Heights, Florida USA. USPA email is - [email protected].

03/22/2017

03/22/2017

New Exclusive from www.UnitedStatesPutting.org – United States Putting Association, Jacksonville, St. Augustine & Starke, Florida USA. - Here let us take time out from the Easter Bunny USPA Championship on this coming Easter weekend coming very soon – info below – To thank our local police department and sheriff’s department for theor wonderful yet, dangerous work they perform or do every single day – almost 24/7 as you will see and hear! Just listen and hear directly the answer we posed to one 31 year veteran officer of the World Largest City (in area) in the entire (God’s world) whole wide world as he answers our questions without knowing beforehand what we will ask him, in other words, behind the scenes instant answers in the video below.
News flash from - www.UnitedStatesPutting.org
If you think our staff knows how to play the right type of mini golf wait until you see our Facebook friends here from me not Portland Maine. Well let's put it this way, it's near New Hampshire the Mountain State up there in Maine though Porter, Maine is not Porto, Portugal that the last full Team USA played together. Porter is a town in Oxford County, Maine, USA. It is included in the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford, Maine metropolitan New England City and Town area. Porter, Maine includes Porter village and part of Kezzar Falls according to Wikipedia. (We really thing Brent & Serena are from Porter village but we can’t post things like that but we did because they act and play mini golf sport like the Village People)
We are blessed to see our friends, Brent & Serena (like the tennis player, Serena Williams) playing as amazing mini golfers, our friends, Serena & her husband, Brent of 12 years & they have a 3 year old daughter, Brent from the State of Maine bear the State of New Hampshire trying for Team USA ha! ha!
No telling who's this recording this tonight of the qualifying round of mini golf sport. This is (actually) the way we play mini golf sport in Florida all the time, every time!! In sunny and warm nights, we mean daytime now nights in Keystone Heights, Florida on an Olympic course - called Tom's Delicious BBQ & Mini Golf course.
In other words for those in Europe & Asia, OMG! This is the first time we tried a night vision filming at night and it's so funny at night no it's not funny - it's mini golf sport!! It is what we love - Mini Golf Sport - Wow! Guess who filmed this Mp4 Video? We are not saying who recorded this time!!! Just watch our friends on Facebook from Maine # # # # see the darn video and this how much fun we have at Tom's BBQ and MicroGolf by Cost of Wisconsin Jackson, WI, an approved international mini golf course!
Signed - guess who????

www.UnitedStatesPutting.org – United States Putting Association announces the "Easter Bunny Open Mini Golf Sport Championship" sanctioned and held by the United States Putting Association – USPA. Here is all the information you’ll need with qualifying rounds commencing immediately at Tom's BBQ & Mini Golf on SR 100 in Keystone Heights, Florida. Just have your best score verified by one of Tom’s BBQ & Mini Golf Staff members & turn in your scorecard. Practice Rounds are charged at their very low mini golf green fees. You must be a registered player of the USPA in order to enter the “Easter Bunny Open”. Registration fees are only $50 USD annually.

FYI - this is an Interactive Mini Golf course and its highlights, obstacles, etc. depicts all the wildlife in the State of Florida together with the MicroGolf course having moguls, undulations, sand traps, tier or plateau holes and misting spray fans and much more as you will see in the photos and also in the Mp4 videos posted now until Easter weekend when the Final Four for the Youth and the Open Division will be known by the best stroke-play totals appearing on the Leader Board. Qualifying for "The Cut" will begin right away leading to the Top 54 best players with the lowest Stroke-Play totals on the Leader Board displayed at Tom's Real High on the Hog BBQ & Mini Golf on Good Friday, April 14th, 2017.

The “Easter Bunny Open Final Four” for the Youth up to 12 years of age and the Final Four Mini Golf "Open" Players, is any age or any gender. Youth will play after Sunrise Church Services, Sunday the 16th of April, 2017 in the huge pavilion at Tom’s BBQ& Mini Golf around 10:00 a.m. The Youth Final Four will begin at 11 a.m. Then, lunch time with Tom’s delicious, High on the Hog Real BBQ food with the Final Four Open Mini Golfers teeing off at around 2 p.m. The champion be crowned around 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 16th, 2017. This should be a wonderful experience for everyone involved and similar to the USPA Mini Golf Sport National "Open" Championship held at Adventure Landing in historic St. Augustine, Florida this past December a week before Christmas. Remember to mark your calendars for this year’s USPA Mini Golf National Championship being held again at Adventure Landing in historic St. Augustine, Florida USA December 15th, 16th & 17, 2017.

Remember, the colleges, universities and schools will be out on Easter Break and The Cut group of players will tee off on Good Friday April 14th, continuing on Saturday the 15th with the Final Four for the Youth and the Open Championship Event being held on Easter Sunday, April 16th, 2017. Those signing up and turning in their official scores, witnessed by a Tom's BBQ staff member, will be held in the office of Tom's BBQ and Mini Golf up until "The Cut" is announced on Good Friday, April 14th 2017.

There will be no exchanging of scorecards, once turned into the office, for a new and/or better scorecard! Each scorecard is numbered so duplicates cannot be turned in for a better score. So, practice now until you think you are ready for your best score for a total of four rounds and then wait until you see if your score makes it to “The Cut” of the final group of mini golfers then on to the Final Four on Friday, Saturday with the Final Four playing on Easter Sunday starting at 2 p.m. for the final four rounds with the best stroke-play total being crowned the “Easter Bunny Champ”.
Remember, a total combined round stroke-play total will be based on 4 rounds of qualifying of stroke-play totals for the Leader Board display on Good Friday, April 14th, 2017 & depending on how many sign up for this great putting event. We are hoping for the best 54 mini golfers in our nations to be listed on our Leader Board but we will wait and see how many sign-up to play one of the newest and best & approved for international play mini golf courses at Tom’s BBQ & Mini Golf in Keystone Heights, Florida. Olympic Medal-like awards will be given out to the Final Four plus other major prizes TBA.

To pay your required registration fee in order to play your practice rounds that start now until Good Friday, April 14th, 2017. Please contact the USPA at [email protected]