The Principal’s Nose bunker at National Golf Links on Long Island would never be mistaken for the clown’s mouth hazard at, say, Brookside Mini Golf, in Yonkers, N.Y. But that doesn’t mean that both ...

It started with a DIY wooden windmill only about a foot tall. With bricks, rocks and scrap lumber, Austin Van Grouw, 7, set up a few more mini golf holes in his driveway. His parents mowed the grass ...