“When he opened the funeral home here … he had the space. “He had a love for (miniature golf), just the fun of it,” Gwizdala told CNN.
Today, Jonathan Gwizdala, a fifth-generation Ahlgrim, is among the funeral directors that continue the legacy of his grandfather by overseeing the course. Designed to serve his children and the local neighborhood, within a decade it had become part of “the community room,” which included a full-size shuffleboard court, a ping pong table, a bumper pool table, and a foosball table hand-built when Ahlgrim was a teenager. Over the following years, Ahlgrim and his sole employee mapped out and built a fully fledged nine-hole course. Some 20 feet below ground, with no windows, it could serve little purpose for the funeral business, but Ahlgrim soon found a use for the room. He was the grandson of Arthur Ahlgrim, who had founded the family firm in 1892.Īs he explored the new site, he discovered a vast basement. In 1964, Roger Ahlgrim strolled into Ahlgrim Family Funeral Services’ newly constructed building, located in the small, leafy village of Palatine, a suburb of Chicago. Welcome to Ahlgrim Acres, a macabre mini-golf experience buried underneath a funeral home. Yet at one unique venue in Illinois, death is par for the course.
Every year, millions across the globe putt their way around an endless array of obstacles in the pursuit of bragging rights.įew players, however, would describe it as a sport to die for.
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