#The best new mini-golf spots in NYC for summer 2021

It’s time to add some long-term thinking to your short-golf game. 

A new climate change themed mini golf course opened on the Williamsburg waterfront last month, weaving critical lessons about the future of the city and planet into 18 sustainably built holes. 

It’s just one of three exciting new little links New Yorkers have to choose from this summer. The two other courses bring beloved animated characters to life: You can now try your luck flinging your ball around Angry Birds landscapes, or bank your shots off the worlds of “Toy Story,” “Soul,” “Ratatouille” and other hit films in a new Pixar themed course. (Unlike the movies, crying is optional.)

Grab your (tiny) clubs and get out there.

Putting Green 

A windmill is usually an annoying obstacle in a mini golf course, but here it’s a hopeful vision of the future. The spinning blades at Putting Green, the new climate change themed mini golf course on the Williamsburg waterfront, are a nod to both the sustainable wind energy that once powered New Amsterdam and the offshore wind farms that could power New York City today. That’s just one of the forward-thinking holes at the newly opened course from Two Trees, the developer that built the adjacent Domino Park. The course is located on the edge of the East River with a view of Manhattan that underscores how climate change could forever change the city. 

$10 adults, $5 kids/seniors. 26 N. 1st St., Williamsburg; 718-407-5162, PuttingGreenBK.org

Pixar Putt

To infini-tee, and beyond! A Pixar themed putt-putt course just debuted in Battery Park City, letting kids of all ages walk through iconic scenes and play among their favorite characters. The officially licensed course, which first appeared in Australia, has a higher price than most (an adult ticket is almost $40), but details from the films are rendered with careful attention.

You can putt around the house from “Up,” the structure poised to be lifted into the air by balloons. Elsewhere, golfers navigate a cutting board from “Ratatouille” loaded with crème fraîche, cheese and a baguette, and work through a life-size claw game filled with those freaky aliens from “Toy Story.” Fans will enjoy finding references to various Pixar flicks throughout the course, from the art on the side of the van from “Onward” to the goofy expressions of the birds from “Finding Nemo.”

$39.50 adults, kids $29.50. 22 Battery Pl., Pier A; PixarPutt.com

Angry Birds Adventure Golf

Put down your phone and pick up a club to try your luck at Angry Birds mini golf, an interactive re-creation of the popular mobile game and movies. The 18 themed holes opened in October, in the massive shopping mall/amusement park/sports complex at the Meadowlands. It calls itself a “not-so-mini” golf course, using American Dream’s sprawling footprint to its advantage, with large cliffs and re-created landscapes from the bird-flinging phone game. The highlight is the slingshots: Just like in the game, you can use slingshots instead of a golf club at certain tees to fling your ball into play. You don’t get to knock over towers of pigs like you do in the game, but, spoiler warning, you do get to launch a ball right at a pig’s face for the final hole.

$20. 1 American Dream Way, East Rutherford, NJ; 833-263-7326, AmericanDream.com