Showing posts with label Beer Garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beer Garden. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

New Adventure Golf course at The Railway Inn in Westerfield

The Railway Inn in Westerfield, near Ipswich, Suffolk is home to a new Adventure Golf course.


The Railway Inn in Westerfield, near Ipswich, Suffolk is home to a new Adventure Golf course

The course is planned to open on Friday 29th March.

Check out The Railway Inn's website and Facebook Page for more information on the 9-hole outdoor pub beer garden adventure golf course.


It'll be a new course for us to check out on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour when we're back in Ipswich.

Thursday, December 23, 2021

15 years ago today

A look back at the 10th course played on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.


We visited the 10th course on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour on this day in 2006. On a bitterly cold 23rd December 2006 Emily, Christopher and I headed along to the Horse and Harrow Pub in West Hagbourne, Oxfordshire to have a game on their beer garden Crazy Golf course.

And what a course it was - we'd not seen anything like it before. And we haven't seen anything quite like it since!

Crazy Golf at the Horse and Harrow Pub in West Hagbourne, Oxfordshire - December 2006
Crazy Golf at the Horse and Harrow Pub in West Hagbourne, Oxfordshire - December 2006

We revisited the course in April 2011 and while it was a bit drier, it was still a very mossy layout.

Crazy Golf at the Horse and Harrow Pub in West Hagbourne, Oxfordshire - April 2011
Crazy Golf at the Horse and Harrow Pub in West Hagbourne, Oxfordshire - April 2011

Little did we know back then that our interest in crazy golf would become an obsession and that we'd visit 982 courses in the last 15 years.

Tuesday, September 08, 2020

Crazy Golf at The Beaver Inn, Appledore, Devon

There's a Crazy Golf course at The Beaver Inn, Appledore, Devon.


Many thanks to my friend and minigolf rival Alan 'Storming' Norman for sending over these photos of the Crazy Golf course at The Beaver Inn in Appledore, Devon.

Crazy Golf at The Beaver Inn, Appledore, Devon. Photo by Alan Norman, September 2020

It looks like a very nice layout and one we've added to our To Play list when we're next down that way on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.


It's always fun finding minigolf courses in pub beer gardens.

Visit The Beaver Inn website for more information.


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Monday, December 23, 2019

Crazy Golf at the Horse & Harrow Pub in West Hagbourne, Oxfordshire

Thirteen years ago today we visited the 10th course on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.


On a bitterly cold 23rd December 2006 Emily, Christopher and I headed along to the Horse & Harrow Pub in West Hagbourne, Oxfordshire to have a game on the beer garden Crazy Golf course there.


In all the years and hundreds upon hundreds of courses we've seen since, none have been anything quite like the 9-hole course.


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Back in 2006 we never realised how BIG our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour would become. To date we've visited 942 courses!

We popped back to the pub for a look at the course in April 2011.

How the course looked five years later

Looking online it doesn't look like the course is in the pub's beer garden anymore.

Friday, December 15, 2017

PLONK Golf at the Sidewinder pub in Brighton

There's a new PLONK Golf minigolf course at the Sidewinder pub in Brighton.


PLONK Golf can now be found in Brighton as well as London

The team at PLONK Golf have created a new minigolf course at the Sidewinder pub in Brighton.

The course is the only pub beer garden Crazy Golf course in Brighton and features 9-holes. It's open until 10pm daily.

Check out the PLONK Golf and Sidewinder websites for more info.

PLONK Golf also have minigolf courses in London at venues in Battersea, Brixton, Hackney, Dalston and London Fields. They also recently launched PLONK PUZZLE PUTT - a Crazy Golf Escape Room!

The team are also taking a course on tour around the UK in 2018.

On our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour we've played the Plonk Golf courses at Efes Snooker Club in Dalston and at the Duke of Edinburgh pub in Brixton.

Sunday, February 12, 2017

Crazy Golf at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Playing the beer garden Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance, Cornwall.


On the 7th June 2015 we visited Penzance and found that The Alexandra Inn had a Crazy Golf course in its beer garden!

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance, Cornwall

The very crazy and unique miniature golf course became the 34th visited on our roadtrip around the south west of England, the 374th played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour and the 633rd visited since September 2006.

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance


Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

In our minigolf match-up on the course I won with a score of 43 to Emily's 55.

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance


Crazy Golf course at The Alexandra Inn Penzance

Related blog posts:
Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
Mini Golf in the South West of England

Video:
- Crazy Golf Hole-in-One at The Alexandra Inn in Penzance

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Thursday, September 04, 2014

Crazy Golf at The Dolphin Pub in Melbourn

A revisit to a pub beer garden course in Cambridgeshire. Or not as it would turn out.

On our way home from a recent visit to Ipswich we stopped off at The Dolphin Pub in Melbourn, Cambridgeshire for a quick soft drink in the beer garden there.

Back in May 2010 we'd visited the pub to have a look at the derelict 4-hole Crazy Golf course there. It wasn't playable then (no putters or balls at the bar) and we were told it was "just there"!

The 4-hole Mini Golf course layout at The Dolphin pub in Melbourn (May 2010)
The 4-hole Crazy Golf course layout at The Dolphin pub in Melbourn (May 2010)

The course is long-gone now.

In the beer garden of The Dolphin pub in Melbourn (August 2014)
In the beer garden of The Dolphin pub in Melbourn (August 2014)

However, there was a little football target game set-up so I had a kickabout on that.

The Dolphin Pub in Melbourn
Having a kickabout in the beer garden

Related blog posts:
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- Course Visit #223 Overall - The Dolphin Pub, Melbourn, Cambs
Minigolf and Crazy Golf courses in Pub Beer Gardens

Link:
- The Dolphin Pub

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Course visited but not played - Smeeth (The Woolpack Inn) - Crazy Golf

The Woolpack Inn in Smeeth
On our way to Hastings, East Sussex to compete in the 2010 Planet Hastings Crazy Golf Club Open minigolf competition we decided to see what other courses we could find in that neck of the woods!

We've been to the south east on a number of occasions, for both tournament play and seaside tours, and we'd heard there were a few courses around.

One such course that has a bit of recent Minigolf history is the Crazy Golf course at the Woolpack Inn in the village of Smeeth. While the course itself has never been played on the BMGA Tour, it does lend its name to the 'Smeeth Cup' tournament that is (was) contested between the Kent Mini Golf Club (KMGC) and the Planet Hastings Crazy Golf Club (PHCGC). The competition was so-named due to the village's equi-distance between Margate & Hastings!



Unfortunately the course was not to be the next course played on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour as we arrived at the pub at 11am, but it didn't open until 12pm!



The Woolpack Inn in Smeeth
The Minigolf course in the beer garden of The Woolpack Inn in Smeeth