Thursday, September 25, 2014

Swingers Crazy Golf in Shoreditch, London

Playing the new Swingers Crazy Golf course in Shoreditch.


Swingers Crazy Golf in Shoreditch, London
A view of the Swingers Crazy Golf course in Shoreditch

Ahead of its full launch today (25 September) Emily and I visited the new Swingers Crazy Golf course in London on Wednesday 24 September.

Swingers Crazy Golf in Shoreditch, London
Swingers - a part of The Institute of Competitive Socialising

It's a really good layout, with some good solid borders, good hole-in-one opportunities

Swingers Crazy Golf in Shoreditch, London
Holes 2 and 3

Swingers Crazy Golf in Shoreditch, London
Playing hole 2 - a couple of ways to play the hole, but watch out for over-hit shots

The course has a par of 21 - with some real par-3 holes, especially the 8th, which features a bridge, dogleg, elevated green and two pipes!

Swingers Crazy Golf in Shoreditch, London
Emily on the tee at hole 8

There's a real party atmosphere at the venue too, with DJ's playing music throughout the night and 'The Royal Shoreditch Golf Club' clubhouse has plenty of alcohol available - with drinking on the course encouraged!

Swingers Crazy Golf in Shoreditch, London
A sand-trap hole!

Swingers Crazy Golf in Shoreditch, London
The 7th hole at Swingers Crazy Golf

Swingers Crazy Golf was the 581st miniature golf course we've visited and 347th played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour since September 2006.

Swingers Crazy Golf in Shoreditch, London
Emily playing a shot on hole 2 as one of the Royal & Awesome bedecked course guides/umpires/caddies looks-on. This hole has a tiered green and three routes to the hole

In our match-up Emily won with a score of 21 to my 23 after I scored a dreadful six on the tough water hazard last hole.

Swingers Crazy Golf in Shoreditch, London
I 'decided' to wash my ball on the last hole. For a 6

The current course record is 20(-1) and is held by the course creator - Josh Ford, founder of the Winterwell Festival. We'll be back to have a crack at bettering that score.

Swingers Crazy Golf in Shoreditch, London
Playing hole 6. Noticed the Windmill on the drinks table - there's one for each of the nine holes

In addition to the Crazy Golf course there are two very well-stocked bars - the main Clubhouse and a Freixenet bar - and street food from Patty & Bun and Pizza Pilgrims. Emily tells me the burgers from Patty and Bun are very good. I enjoyed sampling the Freixenet during the round and drowning my sorrows after my loss to Emily with a Gentleman Jack cocktail.

Swingers Crazy Golf in Shoreditch, London
A view of the course from the Clubhouse

There will also be further pop-up food vendors including When Mac Met Cheese, Butchies and Hix Fishdogs heading to Swingers in the coming months.

There's a unique 'Lucky Last Hole' at the course too. The Freixenet challenge offers the winner a prize if they can knock down the six-pins on the Bowling Alley lane! The closest we got was leaving just one-pin. It's a really nice touch having the hole there as an extra challenge.

Swingers Crazy Golf in Shoreditch, London
The Freixenet Challenge Lucky Last Hole

Swingers Crazy Golf in Shoreditch, London
Emily playing a shot on the Freixenet Top Hole

Swingers Crazy Golf in Shoreditch, London
The six wooden Freixenet bottles you have to knock down to win

Advance booking is necessary to guarantee a round of Crazy Golf at Swingers. The club has seen a huge amount of bookings made already and have already announced that they will be open beyond December, with tickets now available for January, and also for Saturday afternoons.

Swingers Crazy Golf in Shoreditch, London
Emily playing the loop-di-loop hole

If you can't get an advance ticket then there are tickets available on the door for walk-ups. You can also make bookings for large groups and events. More details on the three options for entry to the Swingers Crazy Golf club can be found on the booking section of the website

Swingers - the Crazy Golf Club - can be found at 7-11 Hearn Street, London, EC2A 3LS. Doors open at 6.15pm and the venue is open to 12.30am.

More information on the course, bookings and prices are available on the Swingers Crazy Golf website. You can also sign-up to the enewsletter online for regular news and information.

Links:
Swingers Crazy Golf website
Swingers Crazy Golf on Twitter
- The Institute of Competitive Socialising on Facebook

Related blog posts:
Swingers Crazy Golf to open in Shoreditch, East London
Minigolf and Crazy Golf courses in and around London
Indoor Minigolf, Crazy Golf and Adventure Golf courses
Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
New Mini Golf course played in Las Vegas - The Swingers Club

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3 comments:

Lems said...

Great Course.. so much fun to play, and the venue has been decorated brilliantly.

Of course my win was just the cherry on top :)

Catering & bar also excellent!

Richard Gottfried said...

I've heard via the Swingers Crazy Golf enewsletter that the Swingers course and clubhouse will return in autumn 2015, bigger and better and in a permanent venue!

Check out the Swingers website and Twitter for more info on the course. You can sign-up to the newsletter there too.

Richard Gottfried said...

On a recent trip to London I visited the indoor minigolf venue at Swingers Crazy Golf.

Check out the blog post at Swingers Crazy Golf in London.