Putt-putt miniature golf enthusiasts won’t even have to leave campus this spring to enjoy their favorite sport because a 9-hole course is coming this spring to the Iowa State campus.

The new course may be designed with the help of Bill Boon, landscape architecture professor, who assigned the students in one of his classes to build prototypes of the mini golf course.

Boon said the director of the Brunnier Museum at Scheman asked him if he was interested in working on a new project. “I’ve always wanted to get a golf course on central campus,” Boon said.

For the past few months, students in Design Studies 129, a creativity class, have worked to build a model, nine-hole miniature golf course. The courses will be displayed on central campus at 2 p.m.

“It was a fun way to be creative. It’s better than the usual tests and quizzes,” said Jeff Croat, a junior in liberal arts and sciences.

Croat has worked with four other students, including Abby Zirkle, a freshman in journalism. Zirkle said her group has worked several hours on the project and will probably be working on it most of the night.

Each group is required to develop their own terms for their golf course. Croat’s group requires a mask to be worn while playing the course.

Along with developing rules and challenges for their course, each group had to create a theme. This could be a combination of up to two different ideas.

Each model will be carefully scrutinized for possible ideas for the full-scale miniature golf course which will be coming to Iowa State this spring. The six projects will be photographed and videotaped for future studying, Boon said.

The golf course is being built in order to raise money to restore art on central campus.

“I wanted the students to include some art objects that are on campus to remind people why this is a fund raiser,” Boon said.

The models will be reviewed by officials from University Museums. If weather does not permit the models to be displayed outside, they will move the showing to the Lied Recreation/Athletic Facility.

“I wanted the students to think of novel ways to putt the game and still make it fun along with helping out the university,” Boon said.