Showing posts with label Mablethorpe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mablethorpe. Show all posts

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Crazy Golf at the Haven Golden Sands Caravan Holiday Park in Mablethorpe

Our fellow minigolf adventurers Matt, Helen and Emily Dodd have been on a trip to the fine county of Lincolnshire and found plenty of courses to visit there. With the Dodd's staying at holiday parks they were able to play some courses that we never got to when we first visited Lincolnshire in 2011.

A dogleg hole at Haven's Golden Sands Crazy Golf course. You don't normally see a bridge/ramp on the fairway

This Arnold Palmer Putting Course was played in the Haven Golden Sands Caravan Holiday Park in Mablethorpe. What a great discovery.

A BIG minigolf elephant on the themed Arnold Palmer course

Plenty of obstacles in the path to the cup on this hole!

Tricky

Even trickier!

The hole below is a regular sight on Arnold Palmer Putting Courses and is very often a good opportunity for a hole-in-one. But this is the first time I've the hole with additional obstacles!

The ledge hole in Mablethorpe

A version of the hole in Whitby, Yorkshire

As hole 16 in Hastings, East Sussex

There is another Arnold Palmer Crazy Golf course in Mablethorpe. The Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf was a 13-hole layout (12-holes, plus lucky last hole) when we played it in 2011.

Lincolnshire is a real hotspot for minigolf. Skegness alone has 102-holes spread across nine seafront courses!

The Arnold Palmer Putting Course in Skegness still has an old scorecard in use. It lists many of the Arnold Palmer courses that are long gone. A great bit of minigolf history

Related blog posts:
- Mablethorpe
- Matt Dodd
- Helen Dodd
- Arnold Palmer
- Haven
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

Link:
- Haven

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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Minigolf, Crazy Golf and Adventure Golf Courses on the Lincolnshire Coast

Details of Adventure Golf, Crazy Golf, Minigolf and Putting Green courses that we've visited in Cleethorpes, Mablethorpe, Chapel St Leonards, Skegness, Ingoldmells, Woodhall Spa and Spalding.

In the summer of 2011 our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour took Emily and I to Lincolnshire where we spent a pleasent week touring the seasides, with a few stops inland along the way. As part of our tour of Lincolnshire (and a little bit of Norfolk) we went to seven seasides, visited 34 minigolf and crazy golf courses, played in countless Amusement Arcades and walked along a few Piers too.

Minigolf, Crazy Golf and Adventure Golf Courses on the Lincolnshire Coast
At the Jolly Roger Adventure Golf course in Skegness
Note: The numbers below relate to the 'visit number' on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

225 Skellingthorpe (Daisy Made Ice Cream Shop & Drive-Thru) - Crazy Daisy Golf (Swedish Felt B-Run)
226 Cleethorpes (Oddballs) - Crazy Golf
229 Mablethorpe (Sea Front) - Crazy Golf
237 Skegness (Jolly Roger) - Adventure Golf (Skull Trail)
238 Skegness (Jolly Roger) - Adventure Golf (Treasure Trail)
239 Skegness (Bottons Pleasure Beach) - Gold Mine Adventure Golf (Adventure Putting) & Cactus Canyon River Ride
243 Spalding (Springfields) - Secret Garden Adventure Golf

On the same roadtrip we finished up in Hunstanton where we were able to play a further five Miniature Golf courses.

246 Hunstanton (Blackbeard's Adventure Golf) - Adventure Golf (Aztec Course)
247 Hunstanton (Blackbeard's Adventure Golf) - Adventure Golf (Pirate Course)

During the trip we visited the following courses, but were unable to play them for a variety of reasons (details and links below).

- Cleethorpes (Arnold Palmer) - Crazy Golf - Closed on Visit
- Cleethorpes (Terry's Traditional) - Crazy Golf - Closed on Visit
- Cleethorpes (Terry's Traditional) - Putting - Closed on Visit
- Cleethorpes (Thorpe Park Haven Caravan Park) - Putting - £10 Day Rate To Use Facilities - Not Enough Time on Roadtrip
- Cleethorpes (Thorpe Park Haven Caravan Park) - Adventure Golf - £10 Day Rate To Use Facilities - Not Enough Time on Roadtrip
- Cleethorpes (Thorpe Park Haven Caravan Park) - Crazy Golf - £10 Day Rate To Use Facilities - Not Enough Time on Roadtrip
- Mablethorpe (Queen's Park/Linda's Pavilion) - Putting - No Flags Out - Not Fully Open
- Sutton on Sea - Crazy Golf - Demolished
- Skegness (North Shore Caravan Park) - Mini Golf - Pitch & Putt - Also home to "The Pitch And Putt Inn"
- Skegness (Pebble Adventure Golf) - Adventure Golf - Closed on Visit
- Skegness (South Parade) - Crazy Golf - Closed on Visit
- Skegness (South Parade) - Putting - Closed on Visit
- Skegness (South Parade) - Pitch & Putt - No Time Left To Play
On our trip to Lincolnshire we also visited the smallest pub on the planet - The Signal Box Inn - in Cleethorpes. Following our visit I sent them a mini-Miniature Golf course for their games area!

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

Hooks Island Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

Next up in Mablethorpe on Thursday 19th May 2011 was the Hooks Island Crazy Golf course. The course was the 230th played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

The course had an obvious Pirate-theme, but the course itself had clearly originally been an Arnold Palmer Putting Course. The set-up was 13-holes (12, plus a 'Top-Hole') and in our Irregular Mini Golf Tour Match-up...I defeated Emily 30-32.

Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

The course was fun to play, with many additional obstacles added to the course, that made it very different to playing a standard Arnold Palmer Crazy Golf course.
Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

The strangest of all the obstacles on the course (and one of the oddest we've seen to date) was on the 12th and final 'regulation' hole - it was a giant cigar-smoking Pirate Skull!
Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

The fibreglass model was tricky to play too, as Emily found out on her tee-shot! You can play 'Spot the Ball' on the photo below.
Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

Hooks Island Crazy Adventure Golf in Mablethorpe

Related blog posts:
List of courses visited and played on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
Minigolf, Crazy Golf and Adventure Golf Courses on the Lincolnshire Coast

Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

On Thursday 19th May 2011 we continued our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour visit to Mablethorpe by having a round on the 19-hole Sea Front Crazy Golf course.

The course was the 229th played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

The course had a Windmill, and a bit of a Pirate-theme going on.
Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

There were some interesting holes and obstacles.
Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

This long hole was particularly tricky to get in - in seven shots, let alone one!
Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

Crazy Golf on Mablethorpe Sea Front

In our Irregular Mini Golf Tour Match-up...I defeated Emily 50-51.

Related blog posts:
List of courses visited and played on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
Minigolf, Crazy Golf and Adventure Golf Courses on the Lincolnshire Coast