Saturday, April 15, 2017

Adventure Golf at Haigh Woodland Park in Wigan

Playing the new Adventure Golf course at Haigh Woodland Park in Wigan.


On Saturday 8th April we headed to Haigh Woodland Park in Wigan to contest the first-ever Great Northern Minigolf Open tournament on the two minigolf courses in the park. First up was the new Adventure Golf course.

Adventure Golf course at Haigh Woodland Park in Wigan
The Haigh Woodland Park Adventure Golf course is in a wonderful setting

The 18-hole course is Wigan-themed and was great fun to play. There was a lot of variety and some very large obstacles. It was certainly tricky in places too.

Adventure Golf course at Haigh Woodland Park in Wigan
The new course in Wigan was great fun to play and quite tricky in places

The course became the landmark 700th we've visited in the UK and our 727th overall since our crazy golfing adventures began in September 2006.

Adventure Golf course at Haigh Woodland Park in Wigan
The course offers ball retrievers for any errant shots into the water hazards. I wonder if this pole extends...

Adventure Golf course at Haigh Woodland Park in Wigan
One of the BIG minigolf holes

Adventure Golf course at Haigh Woodland Park in Wigan
And its accompanying green!

Adventure Golf course at Haigh Woodland Park in Wigan

Adventure Golf course at Haigh Woodland Park in Wigan

Adventure Golf course at Haigh Woodland Park in Wigan

Adventure Golf course at Haigh Woodland Park in Wigan

Adventure Golf course at Haigh Woodland Park in Wigan

Adventure Golf course at Haigh Woodland Park in Wigan

Back in 2012 I visited Haigh Country Park and the Play Haigh Golf Complex there. Where the new Adventure Golf course now stands there was once a grass Putting Course called The Himalayan Putting Green.

The old Putting Green has made way for the 18-hole Adventure Golf course at Haigh Woodland Park
The old Putting Green has made way for the 18-hole Adventure Golf course

The new Adventure Golf course was proving popular on our visit - as was the park in general. It was a good job we teed-off our event at 10.45ish as the park and course only got busier during the day. The weather was wonderful which certainly helped.

Adventure Golf course at Haigh Woodland Park in Wigan
The course was nice, bright and colourful

In the first round of the Great Northern Minigolf Open competition the scores were:
1st - Russ Dent - 44
2nd (tie) - Richard Gottfried - 49
2nd (tie) - Scott Lancley - 49
4th - Emily Gottfried - 52
5th - John Moore - 54
6th (tie) - Cat Patterson - 65
6th (tie) - Ryan Lancley - 65
8th - Ethan Rottenbury - 67
9th - Zoe Lancley - 83

Adventure Golf course at Haigh Woodland Park in Wigan
We're looking forward to visiting Haigh Woodland Park again

Check out the Haigh Adventure Golf website for further info, opening times and prices.

The course was designed and built by the team at HM Adventure Golf. Visit their website for more info on their work.

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