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# Putt-Putt
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/1806/
- Published: 2005-07-24T20:56:09.000Z
- Updated: 2005-07-24T20:56:09.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Entertainment, #wpChunk

*New York Times Magazine* ran a lengthy piece this morning about miniature golf: its history, its current financial problems, its Dangerfieldesque status. More than you'd ever want to know, we're sure. But we did find this interesting: This year, the Putt-Putt U.S. Open winner took home only $1,000\. But it wasn't always this way:

> If putting for dollars would seem less ridiculous if it paid as well to do it on carpet as on grass, consider this: In the 1970's there were weeks when the putts sunk by professional golfers were actually less lucrative than those sunk by professional miniature golfers. In 1973, for instance, an 18-year-old named Mike Baldoza won the P.P.A. world championship in Tulsa, Okla., and took home $50,000\. That same week a 33-year-old named Jack Nicklaus won the P.G.A. championship in Cleveland and got a check for $45,000\. Baldoza's competitors split the rest of the $320,000 purse. Nicklaus's had to make do with what was left of $225,000.

[Link](http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/magazine/24PUTT.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5090&en=34611b46691215a2&ex=1279857600&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&ref=thedailyeudemon.com).