{"id":108736,"date":"2025-07-31T23:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T23:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/108736\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T23:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T23:07:10","slug":"after-nearly-six-decades-sunset-golf-will-close-up-shop-in-south-park-its-emotional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/108736\/","title":{"rendered":"After nearly six decades, Sunset Golf will close up shop in South Park: &#8220;It&#8217;s emotional.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  After nearly six decades, Sunset Golf says goodby <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/e93311f190806f07855c4aa76f9575c0.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/video\/after-nearly-six-decades-sunset-golf-says-goodby\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          After nearly six decades, Sunset Golf says goodby<\/p>\n<p>          02:09<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sun is setting on a mini golf spot and driving range that&#8217;s been a part of the community in South Park for nearly six decades.<\/p>\n<p>Sunset Golf will close in August. August 10 is the last day for mini golf. August 17 is the final day for the driving ranges.<\/p>\n<p>The Scandrol family, which owns the property, has sold it \u2013 so it can be turned into a development for people 55 and older.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s emotional, I have to say,&#8221; owner Dave Scandrol said. &#8220;I mean &#8212; it&#8217;s my life \u2013 I&#8217;ve been here all my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A lot has evolved here in the decades since it opened in 1959. Dave took it over around 1990 from his parents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a lot of gadgets that we&#8217;ve invented and made over the years,&#8221; Dave Scandrol said.<\/p>\n<p>There are grinches, alligators, bowling pins all over the mini-golf course. A decent amount of the animatronics let out water as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The little children are thrilled with the water \u2013 they love getting soaked,&#8221; Roy Scandrol said.<\/p>\n<p>The driving ranges have also changed, along with how they are taken care of.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We used to cut the whole field out there \u2013 which is about 30 acres \u2013 with a 32-inch-long mower,&#8221; Roy Scandrol said.<\/p>\n<p>People from near and far made it a point to come down in Sunset&#8217;s final weeks. The Scandrols say people have come from the Midwest and the West Coast. They said McDonald&#8217;s and Sony have even come to film promos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This new chapter will be a drastic change from what&#8217;s been on the\u00a0grounds for generations.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After nearly six decades, Sunset Golf says goodby After nearly six decades, Sunset Golf says goodby 02:09 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-108736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114950364161413577","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}