Friday, April 24, 2015

Plonk Golf Crazy Golf at Efes Snooker Hall in London

Playing the pop-up crazy golf course at Efes Snooker Hall in Dalston.

Crazy Golf in London at the Plonk Golf course at Efes Snooker Hall on Stoke Newington Road in Dalston

On St George's Day 2015 I attended the preview launch night of London's newest mini golf course - Plonk Golf.

Crazy Golf in London at the Plonk Golf course at Efes Snooker Hall on Stoke Newington Road in Dalston

Along with former minigolf Pro Brad 'The Fist' Shepherd we went along to put the course through its paces ahead of its full launch to the public on Wednesday 29 April.

Crazy Golf in London at the Plonk Golf course at Efes Snooker Hall on Stoke Newington Road in Dalston
Hole 7 - the half-pipe-tunnel - looks like an easy ace...it's not

The Crazy Golf course layout is within Efes Snooker Club on Stoke Newington Road and is set-up on either side of the snooker hall with 9 very tricky holes to master.

Crazy Golf in London at the Plonk Golf course at Efes Snooker Hall on Stoke Newington Road in Dalston
The second half of hole 5 involves a Pool table!

Plonk Golf has been created from reclaimed materials that have been repurposed to create a very unique miniature golf course. There's a working volcano on the first hole, a birdcage on the hill at the third, a loop-di-loop to tackle on the fourth, and a pool table making up half of the hole on the fifth hole. There are also more pipes and tunnels than you can shake a stick (or golf club) at!

Crazy Golf in London at the Plonk Golf course at Efes Snooker Hall on Stoke Newington Road in Dalston
The working and smoking volcano on hole 1 at Plonk Golf!

The Plonk Golf course is the brainchild of the team at The House of Revelry and will be open on Wednesdays (6pm to 12.30am) and Thursdays (12pm to 1am) from the 29 April. A round on the course will cost £7.50 per player.

Crazy Golf in London at the Plonk Golf course at Efes Snooker Hall on Stoke Newington Road in Dalston
Plonk Golf poster

The course was the 596th visited and 360th played on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Crazy Golf in London at the Plonk Golf course at Efes Snooker Hall on Stoke Newington Road in Dalston
At minigolf course visit #596

In our match-up on the Plonk Golf course I defeated Brad in round one, scoring a 20 to his 27 and setting the clubhouse record.

Crazy Golf in London at the Plonk Golf course at Efes Snooker Hall on Stoke Newington Road in Dalston
Hole 6 was one of my favourite holes

In our second game we both shot scores of 20. we were very happy to both finish with a hole-in-one on the incredibly tricky 'Jump into the bucket' shot on the ninth hole!

Crazy Golf in London at the Plonk Golf course at Efes Snooker Hall on Stoke Newington Road in Dalston
Brad about to play the 6th hole at Plonk Golf

The minigolf course will be changing through the duration of its pop-up at Efes, with new obstacles and hole configurations, which'll certainly make it even more crazy.

Crazy Golf in London at the Plonk Golf course at Efes Snooker Hall on Stoke Newington Road in Dalston
Results of the Plonk Golf Pro Challenge

You can find Plonk Golf at Efes Snooker Club, 17B Stoke Newington Road, Stoke Newington, London N16 8BH. The nearest station is Dalston Kingsland (Overground).

Efes Snooker Hall is housed in a nice Art Deco building on Stoke Newington Road
Efes Snooker Hall is housed in a nice Art Deco building on Stoke Newington Road

For more information and booking details check out the Plonk Golf website.

Links:
Plonk Golf website
- Plonk Golf on Facebook
- Plonk Golf on Twitter
- Efes Snooker Hall on Twitter
The House of Revelry website

Related blog posts:
Minigolf and Crazy Golf courses in and around London
Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
Plonk Golf in Dalston, London

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2 comments:

Richard Gottfried said...

There's a new Plonk Golf minigolf course opening in Hoxton, London in September!

Check out my blog about it and keep an eye on the Plonk Golf Facebook page for updates.

Richard Gottfried said...

There's going to be a Crazy Golf course from the Plonk Golf team at Winterville in London's Victoria Park this year!

Links:
- Plonk Golf
- Winterville