41st Farmington Tournament Recap

At 41 years running, the Farmington Miniature Golf Tournament is one of the oldest in the country. This course championship is named after Pat Guglielmo, the patriarch of the family who originally built the course, and the family that puts in a ton of time and effort each year to maintain this 60+ year old course.  

The style of course can only be described as “classic” with 4 moving obstacles, some pipe holes and pitted concrete walls that make every bounce interesting.  The turf also is the thinner style and with years of settling a few testing putts will pop up throughout a round. 

The tournament originated as a classic course championship, played in the summer to encourage local families and friends of the course to come out and claim the title of course champion. It was held that time to try to catch college kids before they headed back off to school. It’s played with course balls and all balls in play, as a traditional miniature golf round would.

For most of the tournament’s iterations it was a 2 day tournament, with 2 rounds on Saturday morning and 1 on Sunday morning before the course opened to the public each day. The 2022 edition saw all 3 rounds played on Sunday morning, teeing off at 7:30am.

The tournament would start out hot with Matt Liles carding a 36 in the first round to take the lead. The field would respond though and the scores would tighten up.  There was a pack of past winners and those looking for their first Farmington title all hoping the bounces would go their way. Liles would finish in second as Pat Sheridan, winner in 2019 & 2020, held ground with consistent scores below 40 to finish with a 116 and take his third title.  The big excitement for the day was the 14-hole play off for third place which Tim Janus won over past champion Mark “The Highligher” Novicki. 

Final results can be found in our detailed statistics spreadsheet. Link to the video of the playoff can be found here.