The sun is setting on a mini golf spot and driving range that’s been a part of the community in South Park for nearly six decades.<\/p>\n
Sunset Golf will close in August. August 10 is the last day for mini golf. August 17 is the final day for the driving ranges.<\/p>\n
The Scandrol family, which owns the property, has sold it \u2013 so it can be turned into a development for people 55 and older.<\/p>\n
“It’s emotional, I have to say,” owner Dave Scandrol said.<\/p>\n
A lot has evolved here in the decades since it opened in 1959. Dave took it over around 1990 from his parents.<\/p>\n
“We have a lot of gadgets that we’ve invented and made over the years,” Dave Scandrol said.<\/p>\n
There are grinches, alligators, bowling pins all over the mini-golf course.<\/p>\n
“They love the animation,” Roy Scandrol, Dave’s brother, said.<\/p>\n
A decent amount of the animatronics let out water as well.<\/p>\n
“The little children are thrilled with the water \u2013 they love getting soaked,” Roy Scandrol said.<\/p>\n
The driving ranges have also changed \u2013 along with how they’re taken care of.<\/p>\n
“We used to cut the whole field out there \u2013 which is about 30 acres \u2013 with a 32-inch-long mower,” Roy Scandrol said.<\/p>\n
People from near and far made it a point to come down. The Scandrols say people have come from the Midwest and the West Coast.<\/p>\n
They even say McDonald’s and Sony have come to film promos. This new chapter will be a drastic change from what’s been on these grounds before.<\/p>\n
“I mean — it’s my life \u2013 I’ve been here all my life,” Dave Scandrol said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sun is setting on a mini golf spot and driving range that’s been a part of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-37278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}