Puttcast: Mini Golf, Holey Moley & All Things Putting

Tom and Pat spend a crazy amount of time covering the two major international tournaments in June with the World Crazy Golf Championships (the Crazies) and the final World Adventure Golf Masters (WAGM). They then take a quick look at the one AMA tournament played in June (by the time they recorded) and a couple of other international tournaments that made their radar before wrapping up with a look...

Tom and Pat have a huge slate of tournaments to recap starting with the World Adventure Golf Tour Final in Gloucester, UK. They talk about the US players and dominance of their past guest Seve Kukielka. Then it is on to a full suite of other WAG Tour events, AMA events and random other tournaments throughout the world. They also catch up on Tom's minigolf trip through Europe and take a quick look...

Tom and Pat are joined again by Seve Kukielka to talk about his impressive current run of tournaments as well as his course (Gloucester Aces) hosting the upcoming World Adventure Golf Tour Final. Seve talks a bit about what hosting an event of this size means and some of what the locals are looking forward to doing with an international crowd in town. They also get into how he has been able to kee...

Tom and Pat are joined first by Connecticut minigolf power couple Justin and Anna Seymour. They talk about their entry into minigolf, some recent events and most importantly their path to the upcoming World Adventure Golf Tour Final. They provide some insight into their preparation, their thoughts on what lay before them and some personal goals for the tournament. After that our hosts dive into al...

This is the audio component of an American Minigolf Alliance webcast done in February 2026, which focused on educating audiences on the world of international minigolf. Tom this time is joined primarily by past guest Bryan Akers who has had the opportunity to play in several places around the world including the World Adventure Golf Masters and the World Crazy Golf Championships. Pat pipes in a fe...

Tom and Pat drop their first episode of 2026 after the first AMA event of the season. They also take a look at the World Adventure Golf Tour finals, including the Americans participating. There's also plenty of chatter around the AMA schedule, a new USPMGA event and the impacts of having a minigolf video go viral, along with a few tangents here and there. If you want to help us recap events, don't...

Tom and Pat look close out talking about the last few tournaments of the AMA season as well as the final few World Adventure Golf Tour stops. Before that though, they collected a few tributes to Tim Davies to round out the celebration of his life. They're then joined by Mark "the Highlighter" Novicki to talk a bit about the final event of the AMA season, the Putters League Championship, as well as...

Tom and Pat, along with AMA organizers Bryan Akers, Mick Cullen and Kyle Cutshaw, hosted a virtual players meeting for AMA members on December 3, 2025. This episode is the audio version of that call. The players meeting covered a variety of topics, first acknowledging the overall Top 10 and then all of the regional Top 10s. There was a dive into a variety of other successes talked about during the...

This is the big one - 100 episodes! Tom and Pat look back on what brought them to 100 official episodes of the Puttcast after a brief celebration of Tim Davies. A majority of the episode is spent talking with multiple-time World Champion Sarah Schumacher from Germany about her interaction with minigolf and some of the mindsets that it takes to be play at the highest level internationally. Great in...

They have been teasing it for episodes and now Tom and Pat have the time to deep dive into their individual international experiences this year back in August and September. Pat starts the conversation with discussion about the World Championships in Germany and then there is a breakdown of the WMF Delegates Conference and the significant decisions made there and with the Executive Committee. It i...

Tom and Pat have a chance to team up with Bryan Akers to make a big announcement for the upcoming AMA Tournament the Putters League Championship. After that Bryan stays on to discuss the USPMGA Master's tournament, some additional Myrtle Beach fun and we announce who won the USPMGA Player of the Year (by our calculations). We also drop in a few interviews from the Ice Age Classic that were sent ou...

Tom and Pat are back together to go through, in detail, a long list of tournaments that have been played over the past six weeks in the United States. They focus primarily on the AMA tournaments but that also brings in one of the two US World Adventure Golf Tour stops. There's a little USPMGA Masters talk as well as a look ahead to the end of the AMA season and how the rankings are shaping up with...

Tom and Pat have been traveling and playing/organizing minigolf tournaments for a few weeks and finally had time to talk with each other. This audio is from a Facebook Live! they did on September 14, 2025. They touch on a bunch of AMA winners, discuss briefly the international scene and then go on some tangents based on some listener comments. As we get into the season, if you want to help us reca...

Tom and Pat are joined by youth sensation Rebecka Johansson from Sweden who has not only won 3 medals in the last 3 World Adventure Golf Masters but has also shown her skills on a variety of minigolf surfaces. They talk to her about how she got into the sport, her preferences on surfaces, what it takes to achieve success and more from a youth putters perspective. They also check in on even more to...

Late June into early August provided a plethora of minigolf tournaments and Tom and Pat do their best to lightning through all the results and highlights. They start but crushing all of the AMA tournaments starting with the the wild M.C. Mini Masters then moving onto the Georgia Open, The Shack, Illinois Open, Red Putter and the recent Maine Open. As if that wasn't enough they talked about Pat's t...

June kicks off the height of the minigolf tournament calendar! Tom and Pat focus on two of the biggest of the year - the World Crazy Golf Championship (Crazies) and the World Adventure Golf Masters. They cover all of the intense action in both those tournaments down to the wild finishes across the board in so many categories. As if that wasn't enough they hit on other AMA and WAG Tour tournaments...

Tom and Pat spend plenty of time recapping the very busy month of May! From AMA tournaments in the US to international tournaments across the globe, there was plenty of minigolf in May (and they only touched on a small portion of it). The big story they spend time on is the World Adventure Golf Tour final, which Tom attended and highlights are on Olympics.com As we get into the season, if you want...

Tom and Pat do a quick review of some recent tournaments with the help of field reports from Aaron Kaminski and Bryan Akers. After that they dive into a long-overdue interview with one of the legends of minigolf Hans Olofsson. We talk about his history with the sport, how he moved into adventure golf and how he has managed to be one of the winningest players ever on that discipline. They then talk...

We went big (golf) time! In a special episode, Pat joined other golf podcasters from the Golfer Gang Network for a Masters roundtable. With one of the most famous golf tournaments in the world coming up, they talked about the tournament, the podcasters' relationship with it and then dove into a variety of betting lines for the tournament. As we get into the season, if you want to help us recap eve...

Tom and Pat look at what has already been a very busy winter of putting in the United States starting with the first four AMA tournaments of the season. They also cover some other events both home and abroad that have happened and take a look into the future a little with the WAG Tour and the upcoming Final event. It's a great episode to get you ready for the full slate of tournaments that will be...

Tom and Pat managed to wrangle two of the most infamous names in UK minigolf, though we use the term "wrangle" loosely. Ted "Big Top" McIver and Tim "Ace Man" Davies have been around the world of minigolf for 25+ years and collaborated on the seminal tome "Nutters with Putters". We somehow managed to get them to talk about their history, their views on some courses in the UK, the current state of...

Tom and Pat hosted a live Puttcast session on Facebook and YouTube on January 15, 2025. For this episode they went away from the normal recapping of events and focused on a variety of a miniature golf culture items, specifically focusing on books in their libraries and games they have played. It was a great look at many items that are available to purchase now to keep away those off-season blues a...

Tom and Pat, along with AMA organizers Bryan Akers, Aaron Kaminski and Kyle Cutshaw, hosted a virtual players meeting for AMA members on December 11, 2024. This episode is the audio version of that call. The group summarized the 2024 season in statistics and achievements. They also highlighted all the event winners, the rankings both nationally and regionally, and gave shout outs to other top play...

Tom & Pat start with a quick wrap up the final virtual events for the AMA and the last tour stops of the year for the WMF World Adventure Golf Tour. Then they highlight some of the AMA season stats and celebrate the amount of minigolf played across the US before getting to the main event - an interview with the AMA's top ranked player in 2024 Bryan Akers from Georgia. They talk about his short, bu...

Tom & Pat take the time to go through a huge list of events from the AMA, the WMF World Adventure Golf (WAG) Tour and more that were played since late September, many of which they had firsthand experience with. They also chat a bit about how the AMA seasons is wrapping up, cover some of the changes to the WAG Tour Final and step back into the world of minigolf gambling with the Putt Tour. If you...