Lani finally remembered to bring the
Disneyland Hotel: The Early Years 1954-1988 home from work.
According to it the Par 3 golf course and miniature golf course were taken out in 1970 to make way for construction of the Marina Tower.
Other information from the book:
- Official name was The Magic Kingdom Golf Course
- Official address was 1125 West Cerritos
- Al Appplegate, an art director at Disney Studios was the project manager.
- First hole was a replica of the Main Street railroad station
- Hole 2 was an unknown Fantasyland theme
- Hole 3 was a replica of the castle
- Hole 4 was the 7 Dwarfs' mine
- Hole 5 was Mattherorn Bobsleds (and represented the beginning of the Tomorrowland holes since that ride was considered part of Tomorrowland back then
- Hole 6 was a generic Tomorrowland hole
- Hole 7 was Rocketship to the Moon
- Hole 8 was Octopus's lair from Submarine Voyage
- Hole 9 was Autopia
- Hole 10 generic Adventureland
- Hole 11 was Painted Desert
- Hole 12 was generic Frontierland
- Hole 13 was Skull Rock but was in the middle of Frontierland holes because they originally planned for it to be the Indian Village
- Hole 14 Tom Sawyer Island
- Holes 15-17 returned to Fantasyland with Monstro, Mr. Smee, and Alice in Wonderland
- Hole 18 was Mickey Mouse.
- When constructed the top price of a standard room was $29/night and as cheap as $10/night during the off season.
- Holes 5-9 were Tomorrowland themed (including the Matterhorn hole, as Matterhorn was considered part of Tomorrowland then)
- Hole 10 was Adventureland
- Holes 11 and 12
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