For most golfers, smacking a drive as far as John Daly or Tiger Woods or Michelle Wie is as likely as Joe YMCA bringing home a 360-degree slam like Kobe Bryant. Not gonna happen.

But you, too, can imagine yourself a PGA money leader as you two-putt along the waterfall and through the lava tube this balmy weekend at the Bay View Golf Park's Mini Putt Pali Course.

Bay View's Mini Putt, the oldest of O'ahu's mini-golf facilities, offers short-gamers of all ages a chance to enjoy the game surrounded by nature and without all the kitsch normally associated with mini golf. (It's a far cry from, say, the Golgotha Fun Park — "America's No. 1 Shaded Biblical Mini-Golf" — in Cave City, Ky.)

"It's not like mini golf with the little windmills and all of that stuff," says Bay View employee Momi Hall. "You play the banks and angles just like regular golf."

Bay View offers two 18-hole courses: Pali for kids and novices and Likelike for teens and adults.

The clientele is mostly local, with a strong core of repeat players.

"One woman comes with her mother and aunts every week for exercise," Hall says. Others take advantage of the facility's kama'aina discount card.

Jungle River Mini Golf at Pearlridge Shopping Center also offers an outdoor mini-golf experience with an 18-hole adventure-style course that includes a fog machine, caged Jackson's chameleons, a fountain bridge and a tarpit with animal bones.

Mini-golfers can also go indoors at Glow Putt Mini Golf at its new permanent location at Windward Mall.

At Glow Putt, players try to sink shots under black lights, using glow-in-the-dark balls.

Glow Putt, which also has a location in Lahaina, Maui, first attracted O'ahu customers during two brief stints at Ala Moana Center. The new Windward Mall location includes a party room and other family-friendly features.