sport · Cal Hampton
Mini Golf is a kitsch GTA-perfect activity, and Rockstar has placed a course in Cal Hampton, the Leonida tourist-trap town shown in official screenshots. The screen frames a colourful course with novelty obstacles — windmills, neon shapes, the kind of mid-century Florida-roadside aesthetic Rockstar leans on hard for the rural settings outside Vice City. The activity scales naturally as both a solo mode (chase a par, time your putts) and a competitive one (turn-based with up to four players, with money or rep at stake). GTA Online's golf-club minigame from GTA V is the obvious mechanical template — putter mechanics with adjusted physics for the smaller course geometry. What makes mini golf interesting beyond the minigame itself is that it's pinned to a specific named location. Cal Hampton, in a story sense, is one of the small Leonida towns players will pass through repeatedly — anchoring an activity to it builds the world out beyond Vice City and the wilderness extremes of Mount Kalaga. The co-op angle is what makes mini golf interesting for Rockstar's marketing. Lucia and Jason are framed as a duo throughout the trailers — a side activity where they can play against each other, with the loser buying lunch or kicking off a story beat, would land naturally in the existing protagonist-relationship system. Cal Hampton itself is the kind of small-town Rockstar location that the studio uses to soften the tone — between Vice City's chaos and Mount Kalaga's isolation, this is the warm-and-weird middle. It's a small detail, but a telling one — and exactly the kind of side activity Rockstar uses to make a place feel real rather than scenic.
