Mini golf age
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Anonymous
| What age can kids play and engage with mini golf? |
Anonymous
| 5. Any younger and they have trouble both with the mechanics and the attention. |
Anonymous
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Yeah, I'd agree.
My kid is 3 and I can't imagine her doing mini golf. |
Anonymous
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Hitting the ball solo? 4-6.
Learning the basics (adult helping the whole time), learning behavior in a social environment, and interacting as a family? As soon as they can walk. |
Anonymous
| We took my son at 3.5 and he could hit the ball and liked walking around, but he definitely didn’t play well. At all. And it took forever. If you’re going to a crowded place, I’d wait until probably 5 - if it’s not crowded and people aren’t going to get up your ass for being slow, they can go pretty much whenever. |
Anonymous
| 5-6 |
Anonymous
| We have taken our 4-year-old already a few times. It basically is adults playing and her getting introduced to it |
Anonymous
| I went with a 3, 6 and 8 year old. Only the 8 year old wasn't completely bored. |
Anonymous
| 5 yrs old but make sure there is no one behind you. It will take them forever to get it in the hole and they will not be happy to stop trying. DD acted like she got a hole-in-one getting it in after 20 hits. |
Anonymous
| We went when our youngest was almost 3 because older child wanted to go. It was fine, but definitely slow. Thankfully, it was cold and no one else was there, so we weren’t in anyone’s way. As others have said, age 5+ is probably better. |
Anonymous
| Gosh. We spend a lot of time at the beach and my kids have been plying since age 2. Not hat they were any good, but by 4, I wouldn’t have worried about people behind me, etc. I think both my kids were at or under par on most holes by age 5. A first timer is always going to struggle a bit unless they are 8 or 9 but I think any age is fine if you are mindful of people behind you! |
Anonymous
| We went for the first time when DD was 3.5 while we were at the beach last summer. She had a blast. The course wasn’t very crowded, but when we were holding people up, we just let them play ahead of us. |
Anonymous
This. We have 4 kids, so the younger ones have been going along since they were babies (and playing since they were 2). FWIW, I think younger kids play faster. They hit, chase it, then putt until it goes in. |
Anonymous
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4ish to play. We started taking DD when she earning the summer reading coupons at FCPL around that time. DH would say she was “using the hand wedge” when she would pick it up and move it or put it directly in the cup.
As long as you can laugh about it, it fun with any kid. |
Anonymous
| My kid has been playing competently since young 3. I mean, there was no score keeping or regulated turn taking (he’d just hit it 10 times until it went in the hole and then we got to go). He had his 5th birthday at a mini golf place and the kids (3-7) had no issues, though some were obviously more in control of where the ball went than others. |