Professor Hacker's Lost Treasure Miniature Golf

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Professor Hacker's Lost Treasure Miniature Golf are a group of miniature golf courses located in the Eastern United States. There are currently eight courses under the name, with a ninth currently in development in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. [1] Each course is owned by separate individuals, up to three. Also, each of their locations contains two unique and different 18 hole miniature golf courses. Free games are distributed at locations for lucky guests. Items offered for purchase include concessions, such as ice cream and soda, t-shirts, hats and visors and more. Attractions include caves, pirate ships, waterfalls, mountains, and even trains at select locations. The golf courses' corporate offices are located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. The operations manager is located at the Ocean City, Maryland location. [2]

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[edit] Background

Founded and designed by Tom Murrell, Professor Hacker's Lost Treasure Golf courses are found at various different locations in the United States, mostly in cities on the East Coast with popular tourist attractions. Murrell designed each of the eight existing courses as well as the forthcoming ninth. Each location has two eighteen-hole courses, each of which utilizes signs and scenery to tell the story of an expedition by the fictional character Professor Hacker.

[edit] Locations

Lost Treasure Golf currently has eight locations, and a ninth is currently under development. They are located in: North Myrtle Beach, SC (where the ninth course is also being developed), Kill Devil Hills, NC, Salter Path, NC, Pigeon Forge, TN, Branson, MO (also the location of the eighth course, which is separate, called Dinosaur Canyon), Ocean City, MD, and Lancaster, PA. [3] Free game coupons and tokens received at one course are valid for all other courses.

[edit] Features

Several Lost Treasure locations offer train rides to customers that takes them to the top of the mountain to the first hole.

The Lancaster location has a Giant Human Maze. [4] It is currently the only location of this franchise with this feature.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Lost Treasure Golf.com. Lost Treasure Golf (2007-01-24). Retrieved on January 24, 2007.
  2. ^ Lost Treasure Golf.com. Lost Treasure Golf (2007-01-25). Retrieved on January 25, 2007.
  3. ^ Lost Treasure Golf.com. Lost Treasure Golf (2007-03-13). Retrieved on March 13, 2007.
  4. ^ Lost Treasure Golf.com. Lost Treasure Golf (2007-03-13). Retrieved on March 13, 2007.

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