Every week for the next two months, play miniature golf. No, seriously. There’s no reason not to, because weekly tournaments at a bunch of Long Beach Island mini golf courses are a staple of the summer. And it’s just plain old fun.

“I can recall tournaments here back in the later 1960s,” said Flamingo Golf owner Kirk Van Keuren, who has been with the course since age 15. “I played in the tournaments before I started working here, and everybody always had a good time.”

Karen Rosania, owner of Mr. Tee’s in Beach Haven, remembers when her grandmother started conducting tournaments more…