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Prehistoric Golf, Inc.
680 Portland-Cobalt Road
Portland, CT
(860) 342-3517
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Our Review

• Last Reviewed: 8/8/2002
• By: Chris (MiniGolf CT Staff)
• Overall Rating (1-5): 4
• Maintenance: 4
• Playability: 5
• Price: 4
• Fun: 4
• Difficulty: Hard

Prehistoric Golf is built semi-into a hill, so it can be sandwiched in between the road (a busy highway) and the hill. The course is dinosaur-themed, with a number of dinos and bones scattered among the holes. Unfortunately, many of the holes themselves were uncharismatic.

The course starts out fairly enough, or so it seems, with a straight-in under an obstacle. Not only was the obstacle a boring, yellow box, but the first several holes had uneven greens, so you had to play the curves. Many of the holes had no challenge other than the curves and slants of the greens. In fact, I don’t remember a hole on the front nine that was more than a standard, oddly-shaped green with a few irregularities on the green surface, including a few little hills.

The cups had no rim, and looked quite like standard golf course cups. However, this did not make up for the difficulty of getting to the hole.

The back nine started to get interesting, with a neat variation on Double Trouble – get it in the first hole or go down the rocks to get to the bottom half. One hole was aptly named Giant Step, because if you looked, it looked almost like a big shoeprint. (Of course, dinosaurs didn’t wear shoes.)

The 17th hole, Over the Gorge, entails hitting the ball over a small stream (a firm shot will do). Of course, the green slants off to the left once past the gorge.

The last hole is difficult to score. If you get the ball in the hole, you win a free game, otherwise the auto ball returns behind and in front of the hole will take it. As long as you get the ball up there, technically, it counts as 1, because that’s the number of times you hit the ball.

To conclude, although under new management, the music that blared during some of the game wasn’t enough to hide the lack of character of these holes, and having to climb and descend many steps throughout the game could be a safety issue for little kids and others with disablities. Though the course scored 4 out of 5, I cannot recommend the course.

Our Review Criteria

• All numerical criteria are on a basis of 1-5. For most items, 1 is worst, and 5 is best.
• Overall: The reviewer's overall opinion of the course. 1 or 2 is not good. 3 is average, but nothing special. 4 is worth a visit, and 5 is an exceptional course.
• Maintenance: How well the course is kept.
• Creativity: Is this a cookie-cutter type of course, or does it have some flair?
• Price: How does the price of the course compare to the quality?
• Fun: Simply put, how fun is the course?
• Difficulty: 1-5, 1 easiest, 5 hardest
• A number of older reviews have a "Playability" rating. This indicates how able is one to play the course. Things like bent cup rims, twigs, clogged pipes, and too-difficult holes were included here. (These considerations are now part of Maintenance; Creativity was added in place of Playability in 2005.)