Since last summer, Sophia Mariani kept hearing about this guy named Biggy, some grand miniature golfer who not only often beat his challengers, but then wrote about it in The SandPaper each week. Naturally, the 16-year-old was a bit nervous on July 16.

“This morning, on the way here, I definitely felt the nerves,” said Sophia, who along with her dad, Scott, was the second part of Team Mariani to take the “Can You Beat Biggy?” challenge during the past few weeks. Her older brother, Simon, and older sister, Samantha, split against me earlier in July.

“I knew you were really good because my brother barely beat you, and my sister, who is really good, wasn’t far behind…