Ulysses Grant
For a miniature-golf entrepreneur, Jeremy Franklin-Ross has a unique aversion to concepts like points and pars.
Since 2009, he and a team of fellow artists, woodworkers, and hackers have organized Smash Putt, an adult-only, self-proclaimed “miniature golf apocalypse” that pops up for a few weeks every year.
Putt-putt courses don’t need to have a point; he believes they can be art. Instead of offering a score, holes can show how cruel people can be or how people find meaning in life. “We think about the social-experiment aspects of putt-putt a lot around here,” he says.