Funny & Clever Mini Golf Team Names​ & Meanings

I handpicked these 81 names from more than 12 languages, Latin and Sanskrit to Hawaiian and Hungarian.

List Of Mini Golf Team Names:

Loki Did It

Loki is the Norse trickster who had the ability to change his sex and shape.

Einlochen Crew

German golfers use einlochen for “holing out.” In everyday slang the same verb is how Germans say to throw someone in jail.

Kings of Course

James IV of Scotland paid a Perth bowmaker for clubs in 1502.

Karma Chippers

Karma means action, from the root kṛ, “to do.” In Buddhist teachings, it is the law of moral causation.

Kaputt Putters

Kaputt is from the French card game piquet, where a player who took no tricks was capot.

Kaizen or Nothing

Kaizen is Japanese for “continuous improvement” or ”change for the better.”

Clubbing Till Dawn

Club has roots in klubba, “cudgel”. Mary,

Fingerspitzengefühl

“Fingertip feeling” and is pronounced as FING-er-shpit-sen-geh-fool.

Wabi Sabi Putters

It is symbolizing beauty in the worn and passing.

Nunchi Club

Korean nunchi, “eye measure”.

Ppalli Ppalli

Korean for “hurry, hurry.” Economists connected the ppalli ppalli habit to speed of South Korea’s postwar industrial development.

Happy Gilmore Wannabes

Game show host Bob Barker was 72 when he filmed his fistfight with Adam Sandler.

Wu Wei Putters

Wu wei, Chinese for effortless action and I’ve found it at the center of Taoism. Chapter 37 of Tao Te Ching says: ”Tao needs not act, since its law decides how everything else has to act.”

Weapons of Grass Destruction

Archbishop of Canterbury Cosmo Lang first used “weapons of mass destruction” in 1937.

Kuleana

In Hawaiian, it means responsibility and privilege. The Kuleana Act of 1850 authorized the Land Commission to award fee-simple title to native tenants

Merge și Așa

Romanian for “it works like this too.” The verb ”a merge” is from Latin mergere, “to sink”.

Hajrá Holes

Hajrá is what Hungarian fans shout at matches, “go on!”

Tunnel Vision

In medicine, tunnel vision is loss of peripheral sight.

Spaghetti Slicers

Spaghetti is Italian diminutive of spago, “string.”

Domovoi Crew

Domovoi is Slavic house spirit who guards the hearth.

Sacré Bleu Crew

French expression ‘Sacré Dieu’ (Holy God) was shortened to ‘Dieu’.

Matryoshka Mulligans

Matryoshka comes from Russian Matryona, whose diminutives include Motya and Matryosha.

Ataraxia Achieved

Ataraxia, Greek for freedom from disturbance, was the goal of Epicureans and Skeptics.

Icarus Overshots

Greek myth lets Icarus fly too close to the sun on wax wings. Fewer people remember that Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too high or too low.

Buca Squad

In Italian golf talk, buca is meaning “hole”, and a hole in one is a buca in uno.

Deus Ex Windmill

Latin “god from the machine” copies a Greek stage term for the crane that lowered actors playing gods.

Hygge Hole

Danish hygge, cozy contentment, has roots in the Old Norse for comfort and thought.

Samsara Loop

Samsara is the Sanskrit cycle of death and rebirth. The root sam-sṛ is “to flow together, to wander” and is the path that leads to reincarnation.

Fimbulwinter Is Coming

Old Norse Fimbulvetr is “mighty winter”.

Skål Before Par

Skål is meaning ”cup” or ”bowl.”

L’Esprit de l’Escalier

French for “staircase wit”. Denis Diderot used it in his Paradox of the Actor.

Magari Next Hole

Italian magari means “if only” and “maybe” and is from Greek makárie, blessed one. Save

Bof Brigade

Bof comes from French boeuf (“bull” or “ox”) as well as from a short form of the German Bodo.

Guanxi Golfers

Chinese guanxi is the web of connections that gets things done. These characters combine “pass” or “gate” with “tie”.

Otsukaresama

Japanese coworkers say otsukaresama (“thank you for your hard work”) at the end of a shift.

Săru’mâna Birdie

Săru’mâna is Romanian hand-kiss greeting said to women and elders. ”A săruta” has origins in the Latin salutare, “to greet.”

Fake Rock Enthusiasts

A salute to the boulders every course buys in bulk.

Tiny Clubs Big Egos

Thistle Dhu in Pinehurst, North Carolina, opened in 1916 and is the 1st known miniature course. It’s a pun on “this’ll do”.

Ball Retrieval Unit

For the player who spends more time in pond.Save

Carpet Diem

Horace wrote carpe diem (‘seize the day’) in Odes 1.11.

Mostly Harmless

Mostly Harmless is a 1992 novel by Douglas Adams. It received mixed reviews due to its darker tone.

Barely Within Rules

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Mulligan Accountants

It is a free do-over shot and may honor David Mulligan, a Canadian hotelier of the 20s.

Rules Are Suggestions

The oldest written rules for this sport are from the Gentlemen Golfers of Leith in 1744. There were 13.

Putt Hard Nap Harder

It bends the motto “work hard, play hard” for the afternoon siesta. I’d put this one on a hoodie.

Stroke of Genius Adjacent

For shots that almost worked.

Hoʻoponopono Putters

Hawaiian hoʻoponopono (pronounced as ho-oh-POH-no-POH-no) is the practice of setting relationships correctly”. Healer Morrnah Simeona adapted it in the 1970s into a version taught worldwide.

Katharsis at Hole 18

Greek katharsis is purification. 18-hole round dates to 1764, when St Andrews reduced its course from 22 holes to 18.Save

Feng Shui Fairway

Feng shui is a Chinese practice of harmonizing sites and structures with the flow of qi. It is founded on Yin and Yang and the Five Elements.

Vae Victis

Latin for “woe to the conquered!” Gallic chief Brennus in 390 BC threw his sword onto the scales and Romans needed to bring even more gold.

Wonton Windmills

Wonton comes from the Cantonese form of hundun. In Zhuangzi, Hundun is a faceless emperor who did not have the seven holes to appreciate the world around.

Zeus Loose

Zeus statue at Olympia by Phidias is one of the Seven Wonders of Ancient World.

Baba Yaga Bogeys

Baba Yaga is a female character from Slavic folklore and an evil villain who kidnaps and eats kids. It is also a nickname for Keanu Reeves’s character John Wick.

Pan-demonium

In 1667 John Milton wrote Pandæmonium in Paradise Lost as the capital of Hell, from Greek pan, “all,” and daimon.

Veni Vidi Putti

Caesar’s report after the Battle of Zela in 47 BC: veni vidi vici, “I came, I saw, I conquered”. Putti is plural of Italian putto, “little boy”.

Status Quo Strokes

It is short for statu quo ante, “in the state in which it was before”. Diplomats use it for treaties that return borders to their prewar lines.

Teerminators

It is a combination of tee and Terminator, the 1984 James Cameron film.

Nirvana Nine

Nirvana is Sanskrit for “blowing out”, as a flame goes out. Buddhism uses it for release from craving.

Om Sweet Hole

Om is the sacred syllable of Hinduism. It is the original vibration of the universe and is composed of three syllables: A-U-M.

Short Game Long Story

Short game is golf talk for putting and pitching.

Valhalla Can Wait

Valhöll, Old Norse “hall of the slain”, is Odin’s hall for fallen warriors. Poem Grímnismál gives it 540 doors.

Holeywood

This sign went up in 1923 reading HOLLYWOODLAND and lost its last 4 letters in 1949.

Trojan Horsing Around

Trojan horse barely features in Iliad. Homer describes it in Odyssey and it was devised in the 10th year of the war.

Vikings on Vacation

Old Norse víkingr has origins in vík, “bay”.

Siesta Swingers

Siesta comes from sexta hora, the sixth hour counted from dawn.

Lyuk Squad

Hungarian lyuk “hole”.

Zen and the Art of Putting

Zen comes from Japanese via Chinese chan to dhyana, “meditation”. Robert Pirsig’s Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was refused 121 times.

Olympian Underdogs

The sport joined the Olympics in 1900 and 1904, then vanished for 112 years until Rio 2016.

Namaste Under Par

Namaste is made of Sanskrit namas, “bow,” with te, “to you.” It is symbolizing respect for other players.

Par-A-Normal Activity

Par comes from par, “equal.” The film Paranormal Activity cost about $15,000 to shoot and earned close to $200 million.

Keiki at Heart

Keiki is Hawaiian for child.

Fore Your Eyes Only

Fore is a shortened “before”, the warning shout for a flying ball.

Fairway to Heaven

Fairway was initially a sailing word for a navigable channel. Led Zeppelin never released Stairway to Heaven as a commercial single.

Jjang Gang

Jjang is Korean slang for the best and is usually said with a thumbs up.

Weekend Hackers

Hacker is a player who chops at the ball.

Midlife Putting Crisis

Elliott Jaques formulated midlife crisis in a paper about careers of creative artists in their late 30s.

Maknae Mallets

In Korean, maknae is the youngest member of a family or group.

Holier Than Thou

This phrase comes from Isaiah 65:5 in the King James Bible. ”Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou.”

Lochmeister

Loch is German for hole and Meister is a master. Short versions that I like for the scorecard: Lochies or the Meisters. Scottish loch is a Gaelic word for lake.

Putt Up Your Dukes

Dukes is slang for fists, possibly from rhyming slang “Duke of Yorks” for forks, meaning fingers.

Odin’s One Putts

Odin gave up an eye to drink from Mímir’s well of wisdom. His name is from óðr, fury and inspiration.