Monday, July 11, 2016

Putting Green in Sheringham, Norfolk

Emily has notched up the 688th course visit on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour after happening upon the Putting Green in Sheringham, Norfolk today.

Follow this sign...

...and this one at the train station...

...and you get closer...

...and then you arrive at the lovely looking Putting Green in Sheringham

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Crazy Golf on Grass in Cromer, Norfolk

Emily has visited the 687th course on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - a Crazy Golf on Grass Putting Green in Cromer, Norfolk!

The Crazy Golf Putting Green in Cromer

The layout has a number of fibreglass Crazy Golf obstacles arranged on the grass Putting surface. It's not often you see a course designed like that!

Unfortunately it wasn't open at the time of her visit.

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Sunday, July 10, 2016

Adventure Island Mini Golf in Southend on Sea

A revisit to Adventure Island Mini Golf in Southend on Sea.

On Saturday 25th June we swung by Adventure Island Mini Golf in Southend. It's had a few updates since we first played the Aztec and Inca courses there. Not least the addition of dinosaurs!


The courses were actually the very first Emily and I ever played on together! That was way back in 2003.





Related blog posts:
Southend on Sea
- From the Minigolf Archives - Results of our first-ever game of Adventure Golf against each other!

Saturday, July 09, 2016

No Tee Party Crazy Golf for me at The Club House in Manchester

A visit to the Tee Party Crazy Golf at The Club House in Manchester.


I was recently in Manchester and headed along to the Spinningfields area of the city to check out the minigolf course that had been set up there.


Unfortunately the course had closed the day before so I couldn't play it.


Luckily the holes were still there so I had an interesting evening wander hunting out each of the holes that were spread out around the shopping and dining area.








The course became the 684th visited on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour since September 2006.

Luckily earlier this year the team at the course had sent through some of the scorecards from the course to enter the archives of the Crazy Golf Museum.

Links:
Spinningfields website
The Tee Party website
The Club House website

Related blog posts:
Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
Manchester
Tee Party Crazy Golf at The Club House in Manchester

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Trade On Tap Hole-in-One challenge at CIH Housing 2016 Exhibition

Trade On Tap (Plumb Center and Parts Center) Hole-in-One challenge at CIH Housing 2016 Exhibition.


The Plumb Center and Parts Center stand was a Mini Golf hole!

I was recently at the CIH Housing Exhibition in Manchester and wouldn't you know it - there was a Mini Golf hole there!

Needless to say - I nailed my first shot

And won all this merch!

One of these is headed to Martin Vallance's MASSIVE collection of logo golf balls

Putting courses and obstacles are a popular gimmick at trade shows and exhibitions. Way back in May 2007 I played an UrbanCrazy minigolf hole at the International Direct Marketing Fair at Earl's Court.

Links:
- Trade On Tap
- Chartered Institute of Housing

Related blog posts:
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- Crazy about mini golf balls

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Friday, July 08, 2016

Mr Mulligan's Lost World Adventure Golf in Stevenage

A visit to Mr Mulligan's latest Adventure Golf course.

You can't miss the entrance to the Lost World Golf!

Last year we heard about a new minigolf venue opening in Stevenage and Mr Mulligan's latest course - Lost World Golf - opened at Stevenage Leisure Park earlier this year.

Mr Mulligan's Lost World Golf gets the thumbs up from the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

We've been itching to get along for a game and earlier this week we had a round on the two nautical themed courses. We loved it.

Our crew of adventure golfers in Stevenage

The courses became the 685th and 686th visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour, and were the 403rd and 404th played.

A view of the Jungle course

The 16th hole in the Jungle

Our group hit the Jungle Explorers course for round one and followed this with a game on the Ocean Adventurers layout.


Emily on the 15th about to putt to the ground floor green

If you press this button...

There is some excellent theming throughout the indoor Adventure Golf venue - not least the giant wooden submarine that sits in the middle of the two courses!

Local competitor Simon Hinton and the wooden submarine

What an obstacle/hole/feature!

The inside of the submarine contains a very very tough hole to play!

There's a real mix of obstacles and hole types and there's even a section of holes where you are plunged into blacklight - one of my favourite types of minigolf environments to play in.

The blacklight area on the Ocean Adventurers course

A glow in the dark octopus

Meeting Mr Mulligan

Emily putting under the sea

As we're super competitive players we made sure we kept score and the results of our contest are below - it was very close indeed!

Round 1 - Jungle Explorers Championship
1st - Simon 'Local Athlete' Hinton - 45
2nd (tied) - Cat 'Helter Skelter' Patterson - 46
2nd (tied) - 'Squire' Richard Gottfried - 46
4th - Emily 'Lemony' Gottfried - 51
5th - Simon 'Practice' Hall - 52
6th - 'First Game' Salimeh - 71

Round 2 - Ocean Adventurers Championship
1st - 'Squire' Richard Gottfried - 47
2nd - Emily 'Lemony' Gottfried - 51
3rd - Simon 'Local Athlete' Hinton - 52
4th - Cat 'Helter Skelter' Patterson - 56

The champ

Overall - Stevenage Invitational Tournament
1st - 'Squire' Richard Gottfried - 46 + 47 = 93
2nd - Simon 'Local Athlete' Hinton - 45 + 52 = 97
3rd (tied) - Cat 'Helter Skelter' Patterson - 46 + 56 = 102
3rd (tied) - Emily 'Lemony' Gottfried - 51 + 51 = 102
5th - Simon 'Practice' Hall - 52 + DNF
6th - 'First Game' Salimeh - 71 + DNF

Always nice to see a shark on a minigolf course. And a large mouthed sea monster

Aces Championship
1st (tied) - Cat Patterson - hole 4 (Jungle) and hole 9 (Ocean)
1st (tied) - Simon Hinton - hole 13 and 18 (Jungle)
3rd - Emily Gottfried - hole 7 (Jungle)

Another fine minigolf scorecard added to The Crazy Golf Museum archives


It was also nice to have a break between rounds with a drink at the bar. We also had a celebratory/consolation drink at the end of our second round.



Visit Mr Mulligan's website for opening times and prices, as well as details of his courses in Milton Keynes, Sidcup, Castleford, Nottingham and Woking. We've yet to visit the Nottingham course at Ramsdale Park Golf Centre.

You can read about Mr Mulligan's exploits at the course

Links:
Adventure Golf Limited website
Mr Mulligan's Adventure Golf website
Stevenage Leisure Park website

Related blog posts:
Indoor Mini, Crazy and Adventure Golf courses
Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - List and links for all Miniature Golf courses visited to date
Hertfordshire
Stevenage
- Shark

Video:
- Playing the Doomsday Device at Mr Mulligan's Lost World Adventure Golf in Stevenage

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Sunday, July 03, 2016

Arnold Palmer Crazy Golf course in Southend

A revisit to a classic seaside Mini Golf course.


On our day trip to Southend on Sea we revisited the 18-hole Arnold Palmer Mini Golf course on the Esplanade.

The signage at the course has been updated

The course was originally the 16th played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour back in March 2007. We've returned a number of times since then and it's always interesting to see the changes made to the course.

Emily in action

On our first visit the remnants of the West course could still be seen. It looks like this now.

There used to be another Arnold Palmer Putting course on this spot

The East course has been refurbished since our last visit and it plays very nicely indeed.


The rules









It's always nice to see a high quality scorecard

During our visit we played the Southend Arnold Palmer Classic competition where I picked up my second win of the day, with Chris Jones runner-up for a second time too. Gareth Holmes was third in the 12-player contest.

The competitors

Results of the Southend Arnold Palmer Classic competition 2016:
1st ‘Squire’ Richard Gottfried – 39
2nd Chris ‘Stretch’ Jones – 41
3rd Gareth ‘Lemsip’ Holmes – 42
4th Brad ‘The Fist’ Shepherd – 43
5th (tied) Lionel ‘The Spoon’ Bender – 44
5th (tied) Alan ‘Stormin’ Norman – 44
7th Emily ‘Lemony’ Gottfried – 46
8th Steve ‘F1’ Gow – 47
9th Cat ‘Helter Skelter’ Patterson – 62
10th Lhurlyn Holmes – 65
11th Taji ‘Not Seth’ Rafferty – 69
12th Paul ‘Flip Flops’ O’Connor – 72

The Stick of Rock Champion



Related blog posts:
Southend on Sea
Arnold Palmer