EST. 1974 · HWY 42, EPHRAIM, WISCONSIN

Eighteen holes around the little red shed.

Your round starts at the shed window on Highway 42: six bucks, pick a putter, and there’s a poem waiting at every tee. Same family keeping score for three generations. Open 10 to 10, every day, May through October.

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PAR 42 · COURSE RECORD 31 · ACE NO. 3 OR NO. 6 AND THE NEXT GAME’S FREE

Open 10am–10pm daily May through October. Closed for the winter; see you in spring.

A round $6 · ages 6 & under $3 Cash or card at the window

Find us 10404 Water St (Hwy 42) North Ephraim, Door County

Call (920) 615-4787 Rain check? The window knows.

The course

Hand-built holes that haven’t needed improving in fifty years. Read the poem before you swing; it’s free advice.

NO. 3

The Badger

Bob brought him home from Tomah. Ace this hole and your next game is on the house.

NO. 5

The Heartbreaker

Handicap 1. About one ace per hundred tournament rounds. Somebody has to be that one.

NO. 6

The Deer

Two ways through, and only one gives you a shot at the ace. The deer knows which. He’s not telling. Drop it and the next game’s free.

NO. 13

The Gimme

Half of all tournament rounds ace it. The other half never quite forgive themselves.

Play all 18 with Chris, on video

House traditions, all still running: guess the candy jar at the window, night golf under the bulbs until 10 (or until the last group finishes), and paper scorecards the old way, free at the window.

The Red Jacket

Every first Saturday of August since 2002, the best putters in the Midwest meet in Ephraim: three rounds, a $2,000 purse, and one red jacket.

QualifyShoot 41 or better, any round, all season. Hand your card through the window.

Entry$30, three rounds, lunch included

Course record31, eleven under par

SanctionedAMA Midwest Regional Championship

RED PUTTER MINI-GOLF

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Same family, same course

The Red Putter opened on Water Street in 1974. Bob Yttri’s family took it over in the early nineties, and Bob, in his bowler hat and red polo, turned a mini golf course into a Door County institution. He started the Pro Tournament in 2002 and knew every regular by name. They weren’t customers; they were friends.

Today his daughter Tracy and her husband Chris run the course, and their son Bobby, who once needed a step stool to see over the counter, is behind the window himself. When there’s a decision to make, the family still asks one question: would Bob do this?

“This is my childhood, my adult kids’ childhood and now my grandchildren!”a regular, in the comments

Hole 1 by the stone well — Hole 1, first putt of the day

The red shed glowing at night — The shed, a little before close

A night putt under the lights — Night golf under the bulbs

Stills from the Red Putter’s Instagram; tap one to see the real thing.

Take the Putter home

Prints, hats, and passes, straight from the window. Everything ships from Ephraim.

Ryan Duggan screen print Numbered edition of 100 $60 Mini golf pass The best stocking stuffer in Door County $6 Red & white hat Where the pros play $25 Hooded sweatshirt For the 10pm rounds $45

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