It's a fall day in Myrtle Beach in South Carolina, and a crowd has gathered on the green

of a golf course to watch the final swings of an annual master's tournament.

The man potting is in a striped golf polo and he's staring with laser focus at the ball.

The stakes are high and it has all come down to this moment.

Here's a test swing.

The winner will be decided on this final stroke as people wait with baited breath.

They can hear the hiss of a turquoise waterfall in the background.

In every 20 minutes, there's a volcano, spitting fire.

This is mini golf.

I'm Dylan Thurus and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible

and wondrous places.

And today, we're talking about what is very possibly my favorite sport of all time.

We are talking about mini golf.

Today's episode was produced in partnership with Visit Myrtle Beach because they are the

mini golf.

It's not mini.

It is a sort of maximalist mini golf heaven.

It is so over the top, it is just glorious.

So today, we take a trip to what is at least according to me the most important place

in sport.

We're going to the mini golf capital of the world after this.

When you grow up here, you just don't notice it.

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