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Relax on the golf course at Greenlake Pitch & Putt

Everybody is welcome to kick back and relax at this unconventional golf course where almost every hole is shorter than 100 yards.
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Bill and Bud have played Greenlake Pitch & Putt every week for more than a decade.

SEATTLE — It is a rare golf course where it's perfectly acceptable to tee off in bare feet, but such is the case at Greenlake Pitch & Putt in Seattle.

"This is probably the best par 3 course in the country," says Bud Fenstermaker. This 90-year-old played here with Bill Tharrington every week for more than a decade.

Many mistake it for a mini-golf course. But it's a legit, par-3 track where all you need is a pitching wedge and a putter.

It is a rare place where kids, seniors and everybody in between all play together.

Dione Taitch has been around the place since she was 9. Her family's run the 6-acre course tucked along the southeast corner of Green Lake for more than 30 years.

Most days you'll share your round with the course dog, Missy. You can play the full 9 in about an hour.

It takes Bud a little longer, he says. But he does have two holes in one here!

"It's the customers that have come back that we've developed relationships with that are really what makes my heart happy," said Bud.

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