Plenty of studio honchos play golf, but for this filmmaker, miniature golf is indie turf. Scott King, whose plucky King Pictures has hatched such quirky projects as the 1996 documentary "Shotgun Freeway: Drives Thru Lost L.A.," spent three months and about $20,000 creating a nine-hole miniature golf course at his home near Silver Lake.
Miniature golf courses have a theme, and King's is L.A. landmarks past and present. The holes on the front- and-backyard course at his half-acre property represent Angeleno monuments such as the Brown Derby, Angels Flight, the Donut Hole drive-through in La Puente, and Hoover Dam. ("It wouldn't exist without L.A.," King explains.) "We mostly picked the least obvious choices," he says. "We could have done Phillipe's or other classical landmarks, but we wanted things that were less recognized."
