Bunkers & Bumps™ Putting Course Designed to Boost Guest Per Capita Spending

Female watching her putt on the fairway portion of an AGS Bunkers & Bumps hole
Player watches her putt along a Bunkers & Bumps™ hole from AGS – a product that imitates natural-looking miniaturized golf courses with varying terrain and faux sand bunkers. AGS says this product fills a growing need as FECs, restaurant / bar operations with an entertainment component and other venues incorporate the family and date night fun of mini golf play into their overall guest experience.

Bunkers & Bumps™ (B&B) is an eco-friendly, customizable putting course incorporating miniaturized rolling terrain synthetic turf fairways / greens with “bumps,” contours, undulations, rough turf surroundings and faux sand bunkers to create a more natural-looking putting course. Unlike traditional mini golf that often uses bricks, walls , obstacles and theme elements for boundaries, Bunkers & Bumps relies on various terrain designs and rough turf to shape holes.

Popularized by a professional golfer, many venues are discovering the appeal of retailtainment and eatertainment where realistic-looking golf putting courses are attracting and extending guest visits. In turn, this is creating the opportunity for increasing guest per-capita spending, boosting other revenue centers such as food and beverage, creating a more engaging shopping or dining guest experience and improving bottom-line performance.

Bunkers & Bumps was developed by Adventure Golf & Sports (AGS) in response to entertainment venues such as FECs, hotels / resorts, restaurant / bar operations with an entertainment component, cruise ships, parks and other operations, wishing to incorporate the family and date night fun of this type of golf putting course into their overall guest experience.

Bunkers & Bumps Features:

  • Enhanced AGS Modular Advantage® topography with rolling terrain  
  • Faux sand bunkers
  • Interlocking, patented, flexible, permeable panels made from recycled materials
  • Special permeable covering of “bumps” to allow water flow-through
  • Lower cost, faster installation and less maintenance compared to concrete-built courses

An eighteen-hole Bunkers & Bumps course is condensed to fit 12,000 square feet and a nine-hole course will fit in 6,000 square feet, which is easily converted into 18 holes by adding two golf hole cups per hole.

The Bunkers & Bumps system allows the fabrication and installation of a unique course using green technology, which is a welcome benefit to many purchasers. A higher grade of artificial putting turf is used which includes water drainage features. The panel system made from recycled materials is permeable, offering instant drainage and does not contribute to runoff or erosion.

The AGS proprietary bump system permits the AGS installation team to cover bumps with a special material allowing water to flow through, and permits easy attachment of the rough turf. 

AGS Bunkers and Bumps mini golf putting course on ship deck
Faux sand traps protect or challenge shots on a Bunkers & Bumps putting course on a cruise ship deck
AGS Bunkers and Bumps look like mini pro golf courses
Bunkers & Bumps course on parking deck rooftop

Contact us today for pricing and explore how Bunkers & Bumps can be customized for your venue to increase fun for your guests while increasing per capita guest spending!

TESTIMONIALS

  • “It’s not a putt-putt or goofy golf… The whole thing is turf and then there are simulated areas where it’s blue (turf) that looks like water and tan (turf) that looks like sand… You could take a route to the hole that is high risk – high reward or play it super conservatively and maybe shoot par or something in between. And so, the more you play, the more you figure out how you want to play a particular hole. It is a challenging course…”

    Owner Mini Golf-centric entertainment venue with casual dining and full bar

  • “The newest, hottest site out there is a mini golf course that looks like a real course, not something with windmills and animation. So that’s kind of why we went this route. And after meeting with AGS at IAAPA and talking to a couple different places, I realized they had the ability and seemed like the best group for us to head down this path.”

    CEO of FEC

  • “The new AGS course uses interlocking panels. Rain runs off and drains with our course and there is no water pooling…(Ours) is larger than most 18-hole miniature golf courses and it’s got two cups per hole and one of them is always plugged, so we’re able to make it so that the experience is never the same. We can rotate the holes that are plugged or unplugged anytime we want.”

    FEC VP Operations