Best place for underage clubbing

Send children into a dark building and give them metal clubs to swing around. This is roughly the concept behind Monster Mini Golf in Rancho Cordova. Very rough, actually: It's an indoor 18-hole miniature golf course that, like your neighborhood adolescent goth, is black on the inside, and it's illuminated by black lights and more glow-in-the-dark paint than you ever knew existed. There's a towering animatronic beast that growls and a lurching three-headed dog that barks its heads off at passersby, plus human-sized vampires (or bats?) hanging from the ceiling, and plenty of coffins and skeletons to set the kitschy, spooky mood. It basically feels like a Halloween store that plays new and old top 40 music (“Devil Inside”? How appropriate). Kiddies wearing glow jewelry and facepaint dancing on the ninth hole is common. It beasts, I mean beats, getting sunburned or freezing at the standard outdoor, windmill-filled mini golf courses. Protect that palor! 12401 Folsom Boulevard in Rancho Cordova, (916) 294-0000, www.monsterminigolf.com. S.