One man’s journey to find the best mini golf course in America took him on a life changing adventure. Imgurian dangermoth, real name Dan, spent over two months this summer driving from state to state, playing the best rated mini golf course in each state.
Throughout this journey, Dan shared his progress on Imgur, much to the delight of the community. We reached out to Dan to learn more about his grand golf tour and how Imgurians helped him along the way.
After lurking on Imgur for years, Dan made the leap to post on Imgur. “Looking back on it, I think that being on the road for two and a half months straight became a little lonely. I really wanted to share my story with people who I thought would enjoy it!” he explained.
“The amount of positive response the community gave my silly little quarter-life crisis has been staggering! It’s crazy to think that I became one of those stories on the front page. All of those guys are so cool! I definitely feel like my OC is way out of its league, but I’m glad the community supported it regardless!”
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Maryland – Old Pro Golf @ 68th Street
Dan first got hooked on Imgur due to what he describes as “the ‘randomness’ of Imgur. It allows you to see stories you couldn’t possibly imagine. I don’t think my adventure would have been as big on any other site, if only because it doesn’t really fit into one of its rigidly defined page categories,” he explained.
“Imgur may be a little more ‘random’ than other sites. But that variety greatly increases the number of stories it can tell on any given day. And I really like that a lot.”
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Illinois – Par-King Skill Golf
Like so many other Imgurians before him, Dan soon found himself addicted to the Front Page of Imgur. “Man, there wasn’t a Javert that I didn’t laugh at. And I’ve spent hours on individual image dumps. Wallpaper dumps never did it for me. But the funny 900 image dumps that appear from time to time… I’ve cancelled plans to read through some of those.”
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Nevada – KISS by Monster Mini Golf
Dan also found himself drawn to Imgur thanks to the community. “Imgur’s community is just phenomenal,” he said. “It has such an unbelievably active community.”
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He continued to say “it’s that sort of wide-scale unity really allows for individual Imgurians to make a lasting mark on the community at large. Like, I don’t think Michael Cera photoshops could have survived that long on a different website. It’s only because of Imgur that he was able to create such a funny and lasting presence. And I really love when things like that happen – when the community is able to rally around unique stories and turn them into big, exciting events. Like Cody Miller’s Olympic journey. We got to watch that story as it happened. Something like that can’t happen on any other site!”
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Tennessee – Ripleys Believe-it-or-Not Old MacDonalds Farm
During his travels, Dan got to visit us at Imgur HQ in San Francisco! It was great to hang out with him and hear his learnings first hand.
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After so much time on the road and driving to all 50 states, Dan had to make a decision about which mini golf course was truly the best.
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North Dakota sunflowers
As he explains on his blog, the winner was Mt Atlanticus, in South Carolina. “Since 1998, Mount Atlanticus has stood as the undisputed crown jewel of Myrtle Beach – the mini golf capital of the world. It even calls itself the “Best Miniature Golf Course in America” (although, to be fair, so did over half of the other courses I visited this summer, so maybe that’s not that compelling of an argument). Ultimately, throughout my entire 78-day-long adventure, as I played mini golf all across the nation, only one course truly towered (both physically and figuratively) above the rest.”
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South Carolina – Mt. Atlanticus
In real life, Dan graduated college a few months ago with an English degree, but, now that his trip has wound down, he’s living in Chicago. He’d love to do another road-tripping adventure in a few years or so, but for now he says that he wants to get in shape. “I’ve been sitting in a car for nearly a fifth of a year,” Dan said. “When my dad was about my age, he used to run marathons… I’ve never been that athletic of a guy, but I think it would be so cool to attempt something like that! And, when I do, you know I’ll be posting like mad about it on Imgur – I’ll need all the support I can get!”
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Dan in Hawaii
Before Dan returns to reality, he wanted to thank the Imgur community for their support. “I do not know if I would have finished this trip if there wasn’t this massive group of people who thought it was worth doing. I was so fortunate to have so many Imgurians support me on the longest journey of my life. That high level of almost universal encouragement been one of the most powerful elements of this trip.
I won’t ever forget it.”
For a full review of all 50 mini golf course, visit this post or Dan’s blog.
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