Fun is par for the course at downtown’s new mini-golf venue. (Photo: The Fat Putter)
By Hailey Evans
Fat Putter, a new mini-golf spot right out of the colorful world of the Mario Brothers, opens this Friday on the ground floor of the Wilkins apartment building and Tea Room event space.
The indoor venue will cater to a 21-and-up crowd after 6 p.m., but all ages can enjoy the themed courses during the day. It will feature 27 light-up, graffitied, gamified putting holes, plus an arcade, a full bar and a kitchen serving up Fong’s Pizza. The Omaha-based company Let’s Go Putt operates several similar mini-golf venues around Nebraska and Missouri. This will be its first outpost in Iowa.
Here are a few more golf entertainment venues to take (or briefly escape) out-of-town visitors during the holidays:
Putts & Pins, West Des Moines
Here, the funky mini-golf and bowling concept features neon-lit putting greens with crazy courses, glowing bowling lanes, and a restaurant and bar.
Range Restaurant + Cocktail Bar, Urbandale
This upscale golf experience features six private bays of PGA-endorsed indoor golf simulators, plus access to the full restaurant and bar menus through convenient order kiosks.
Topgolf, West Des Moines
This high-tech driving range uses proprietary Toptracer technology to track your shots and keep score for over a dozen different games, each with a different objective. Test your pitching and chipping with TopChip, improve your accuracy with TopPressure, or play classic Topgolf and aim for any target. The venue will include three floors of hitting bays and a full restaurant with multiple bars.
For options in eastern Iowa, check out our latest ia magazine story.
