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词条 Ralph Lomma
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  1. History

  2. References

Ralph John Lomma (March 13, 1924 – September 12, 2011)[1] is often credited, along with his brother, Al, with popularizing miniature golf in the mid-1950s through their design and manufacture of now famous obstacles such as castles, clown heads and windmills.[2][3] Lomma Enterprises, which Ralph Lomma founded, is still in business today.

History

In 1959, he engineered the development of Elk Mountain, Pennsylvania into a ski resort and in 1961, Lomma founded the Village of Four Seasons, Pennsylvania. Lomma Enterprises is the world's largest supplier for the pint-size sport, with courses in all 50 states and five continents. Lomma claimed that one course was built in a federal penitentiary and another aboard an aircraft carrier, nearly 6,000 miniature golf courses in all.

In the 1980s, Lomma was appointed by Ronald Reagan to the Coast Guard Commission and sat on the board of directors of Allied Artists film company, at that time involved with the production of The Wild Geese, starring Richard Harris, and Cabaret starring Liza Minnelli.

References

1. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/us/ralph-j-lomma-who-shaped-miniature-golf-dies-at-87.html|title=Ralph J. Lomma, Who Shaped Miniature Golf, Dies at 87|last=Fox|first=Margalit|date=17 September 2011|work=nytimes.com|accessdate=11 October 2011}}
2. ^{{cite news|title=There's Big Money in Miniature Golf |first=Bob |last=Dvorchak |newspaper=Sarasota Herald-Tribune|date=1984-04-06|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=--chAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mWgEAAAAIBAJ&dq=ralph%20lomma&pg=5159%2C811023}}
3. ^{{cite news |title = Turf, eco-hubbub and the green golfer |first = Travis |last = Brown |date = 2008-04-13 |url = http://www.kansan.com/news/2008/mar/13/turf_wars/?jayplay|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120310102959/http://www.kansan.com/news/2008/mar/13/turf_wars/?jayplay|dead-url = yes|archive-date = 2012-03-10}}
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5 : 1924 births|2011 deaths|University of Scranton alumni|Businesspeople from Scranton, Pennsylvania|20th-century American businesspeople

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