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Everyone considering getting into the highly profitable business of miniature golf and family entertainment centers can now take the guesswork out of teeing off.

Debbie Williams, along with Kevin M. Ream, a successful developer of over 50 miniature golf facilities throughout the world, and founder of GOLFSCAPE, Championship Miniature Golf and the Miniature Golf Association of America, has published a handbook called The Serious Business of Miniature Golf that helps entrepreneurs shoot for the green.

Miniature golf is played by millions of Americans each year, according to Ream, and the trend is growing, causing a demand for new facilities everywhere. The enthusiasm has inspired the development of profitable minuscule greens in locations from shopping malls to roof tops to stand alone facilities to state-of-the-art F.E.C.

However, newcomers to the industry have had difficulty obtaining unbiased, reliable data for development. This new manual provides all the latest ideas regarding state-of-the-art outdoor adventure-style courses, inexpensive prefabricated courses, and the up-and-coming indoor courses, as well as complete family entertainment complexes.

The Serious Business of Miniature Golf provides objective, tried and proven information on development, on the business itself, and on dozens of builders, suppliers, and manufacturers of anything and everything in the miniature golf industry," says Williams.

Williams says that several miniature golf designers and manufacturers were enthusiastic about the idea of putting together a comprehensive manual. Several companies provided statistics, start-up costs, layout designs, site plans, and partnership agreements written specifically for miniature golf courses.

"Kevin Ream has been involved in every aspect of the miniature golf business for almost ten years, so he's worked out a lot of bugs," Williams continued, speaking of her co-author. "he opened up all of his records for me and even put me in touch with every mini golf developer that he could think of."

"A lot of people have had the idea of starting a miniature golf course," says Ream,"but haven't acted on their idea. This manual provides a way to materialize those dreams safely, with minimal investment and risk."

When it's all said and done, Williams and Ream have compiled almost 300 pages of facts, tips, plans and working drawings, photos and diagrams - everything necessary to get a miniature golf business off of the ground and running efficiently. The appendix provides proven models for a business plan, sample profit statements, feasibility study and various advertising tools.

The Serious Business of Miniature Golf is available for $199 plus shipping. "One hundred and ninety-nine dollars may sound like a lot, but for an individual to go out and have an attorney, business consultant, accountant, architect and a landscape designer do what this manual provides would cost several thousand dollars. The recently completed industry feasibility study prepared at a cost of $8,000 is well worth the cost of our book" says Ream.

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