Golfing-In The Twilight Zone

We've lived in Myrtle Beach for four years and during that time I have played mini-golf twice.  I've only played "real" golf once in my life over twenty years ago. This area has about 60 some regular golf courses and somewhere between 50 and 100 mini-golf courses. Myrtle Beach is known to have more courses than any other place in the country. The idea that I would go somewhere else and love playing mini-golf, seems a little ridiculous.  When you mention going to Las Vegas, mini-golf never comes to mind, although they do have a few courses.

The history of mini-golf is confusing with its origins being Scotland or China. National Mini-Golf Day (a holiday you never hear about) is always the second Saturday in May. There are around 500 courses that exist in The United States today, but in the 1920's, New York City had 120 roof-top courses.

"The Twilight Zone" television show was on between 1959 and 1964 and is still recognized as one of the best shows ever on television. Many people over the last fifty some years know this show from watching reruns. It is one of my three favorite shows because of its uniqueness and sometimes bizarre endings. 

Here are some pictures of this indoor course which was brilliantly created.  The first one is the words that Rod Serling, (the creator of the show) says at the beginning of each show:

The second picture is part of the course and you can see the surroundings especially on the walls of the shows and in the middle of the course.

The third picture is from a show where the wealthy man has his close family put on ugly masks for a couple hours that match their awful personalities and then at midnight they can take them off and inherit his fortune. The catch is that the masks cannot be removed.

Lastly, one of my top three favorite episodes, "To Serve Man." Aliens arrive on earth and are willing to share their incredible knowledge and invite people on earth to visit their planet.  They leave a large book entitled, "To Serve Man," and the show ends with the narrator getting on a spaceship with a co-worker yelling at him after they broke the alien code, "It's a cook book! It's a cook book!" (The plan is to eat mankind)

My brother and I had a great time in the darkness surrounded by monsters and imagery from the show. The music that was playing on the course was from the 50's and 60's and the only thing missing was "The Twilight Zone" theme song. However, it was easy to hear that theme, because, we were in....The Twilight Zone.