We’re really starting to like this series. Fasolamatt, you have the floor:

Northern Minnesota, the late 1980s. A bar with a miniature golf course attached. Summer camp staffers on their day off, laundry done, and one prize purchased at a local used goods store: a John Denver record album. Desperate for entertainment, it is born: The John Denver Memorial Putt-Putt Golf and Margarita Invitational Open Classic. Note that the departed folk singer wasn’t actually dead yet at the time.

The rules aren’t all that tough. Every nine holes that you successfully complete, you get to drink a margarita. Then you play nine more holes. Successful completion is defined as no score more than a six on any hole. As soon as you fail to make a six, you are out, and you may not drink further until everyone is done. This does not prevent you from verbally abusing other participants in hopes of being able to quench your thirst further. As you can imagine, as soon as two or three people are out, the quality of play (and wordplay) deteriorates rapidly. Winner keeps the record album until the next year.

The bar closed after the fourth year of the event. I’m pretty sure the John Denver album is in a rural Minnesota landfill somewhere. The participants? Most of them spend their days educating your children.

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