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Byline: Clint Cooper

Aug. 16--Not that he's the senior pastor of a church, Tim Vaughn says he can admit it. He and some of his friends used to cheat at Goony Golf.

"We would secretly hold up the wooden board of a caveman the dinosaur was dangling in order to try and get the ball through," he said.

Goony Golf, with greens featuring outsized dinosaurs, windmills and bugs, was one of several area miniature golf courses Chattanoogans who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s played.

Mr. Vaughn, senior pastor of Life Church in Athens, Ga., said he often went to the Brainerd Road layout with other children from nearby Brainerd Hills Baptist Church, where his father was pastor.

"I still think that (hole that featured an) alligator had eyes," he said. "Every time we would hit the ball toward its mouth, it would chomp down on it, and we would be furious."

Dewayne Gass, 47, general manager of what is now Sir Goony's Family Fun Center, said he was no different from other area residents …