Showing posts with label Pirate Cove Adventure Golf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pirate Cove Adventure Golf. Show all posts

Saturday, December 05, 2020

Minigolf course visit 900 - a year ago today

We visited our 900th miniature golf course in the British Isles a year ago today.



Pirate Cove Adventure Golf at New York Thunderbowl in Kettering
We had a brilliant time at the New York Thunderbowl. The 9-hole adventure golf layout was a good challenge and we'd visit again 

Check out the New York Thunderbowl website for more information, opening times and prices for all of the activities at the centre.

Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour


When our minigolfing adventures began in 2006 there were 600 miniature golf courses in the UK. We visited our 600th course at Goodrington Sands in Paignton, Devon. There are now well over a thousand places to play the game.

We've been to a total of 956 courses to date. In the last 14 years a number of new courses have come and gone, older courses have been updated or refurbished, while some layouts have been lost forever.

Our 900th course visit, including overseas venues, was at the North Bay Crazy Golf course in Scarborough in the summer of 2019.

We've been to 39 minigolf courses in eleven overseas countries including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and the USA.

Our stop off at the Thunderbowl was en route to visit family and friends in Suffolk. Something we haven't been able to do this year.

Last year we hit 82 courses. This year we've been to 46 courses, including revisits, with 15 of the layouts being new courses to us. During the coronavirus pandemic we've been able to visit eight courses, playing two of them.

We had been on schedule to reach our 1,000th course this year and had a very strong start to 2020, visiting 20 courses in the first 20 days of January!

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Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf course in Aberavon, Wales

The Pirate Cove Adventure Golf course in Aberavon, Port Talbot. May 2019.


Pirate Cove Adventure Golf course in Aberavon, Wales. May 2019

The 12-hole Pirate Cove Adventure Golf course became the 885th course visited and 516th played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour when I was there to play in the 2019 Welsh Minigolf Doubles Championship last May.

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf course in Aberavon, Wales. May 2019

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf course in Aberavon, Wales. May 2019
 
Pirate Cove Adventure Golf course in Aberavon, Wales. May 2019

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Friday, December 13, 2019

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf at the New York Thunderbowl in Kettering

Playing the indoor Pirate Adventure Golf course at the New York Thunderbowl tenpin bowling centre in Kettering, Northamptonshire.


Pirate Cove Adventure Golf at the New York Thunderbowl in Kettering

Last Thursday we visited our 900th minigolf course in the British Isles.


Pirate Cove Adventure Golf at the New York Thunderbowl in Kettering

The location of our milestone game of miniature golf was the indoor Pirate Cove Crazy Golf course at the New York Thunderbowl tenpin bowling centre in Kettering.


Pirate Cove Adventure Golf at the New York Thunderbowl in Kettering

The 9-hole minigolf course is on a mezzanine above the arcade games in the tenpin bowling centre and has been very well made.

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf at the New York Thunderbowl in Kettering
A pirate's eye view of the course

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf at the New York Thunderbowl in Kettering
Playing hole 2

We really enjoyed our game and a drink in the bar afterwards. Chilling out in the pirate themed bar was well earned after a very long drive down to Kettering from Stockport. If the journey had taken any longer we might have arrived after the course had closed!

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf at the New York Thunderbowl in Kettering
Emily playing hole 7

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf at the New York Thunderbowl in Kettering
In trouble on the course

The result of our minigolf match-up was a tie as we both shot rounds of 23.

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf at the New York Thunderbowl in Kettering
Hole 1

Visit the New York Thunderbowl website for more information, opening times and prices for all of the activities at the centre.

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf at the New York Thunderbowl in Kettering
Playing hole 6

We've found that minigolf courses are becoming popular additions to tenpin bowling centres.

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf at the New York Thunderbowl in Kettering
A view of the course

The very first course we played was a pirate-themed adventure golf layout. We wonder whether the 1,000th course will be too?

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf at the New York Thunderbowl in Kettering
Hole 4 - I fired a cannon to win a free game on the very first course we played

When our adventures began in 2006 there were 600 miniature golf courses in the UK. There are now around 1,200 places to play the game.

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf at the New York Thunderbowl in Kettering
The entrance to hole 7 

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf at the New York Thunderbowl in Kettering
Hole 7

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf at the New York Thunderbowl in Kettering
Hole 7

New York Thunderbowl in Kettering
The pirate theming was very well done throughout the venue

New York Thunderbowl in Kettering
Sharks AND an alligator! 

New York Thunderbowl in Kettering
Sharked!









Thursday, September 19, 2019

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot

A visit to the Pirate Cove Adventure Golf course in Aberavon, Port Talbot.


Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot

The 12-hole Pirate Cove Adventure Golf course became the 885th course visited and 516th played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.


Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot

Created by the Natural Play Company, it's a tricky layout and while there are hole-in-one opportunities, they are few and far between!

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Playing hole 11

I was in town to compete in the Welsh Mini Golf Club's Doubles Championship at the Pirate Cove Adventure Golf course.

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
I do like minigolf sharks

Aberavon seafront is such a lovely spot and provides spectacular views - Swansea Bay to the right and the steelworks to the left! It was a very nice place to spend time Putting.

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot

Check out my blog post Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - update from Wales to see how me and my team-mate Seve Kukielka got on in the Welsh Mini Golf Club's Doubles Championship.

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Playing hole 12

Visit the Pirate Cove Adventure Golf course website for more information, opening times and prices.


Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
The Rules

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Another nice minigolf scorecard added to the collection

Photos of the 12-hole Pirate Cove Adventure Golf course in Aberavon.


Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 1

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 1

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 2

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 2

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 3

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 3

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 3

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 4

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 4

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 4

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 5

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 6

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 7

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 7

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 7

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 8

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 8

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 8

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 8

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 9
  
Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 9

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 9

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 10

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 10

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 11

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 11

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 11

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 12

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 12

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Dare you play through the shark's mouth?

Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Hole 12


Pirate Cove Adventure Golf in Aberavon, Port Talbot
Fin

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- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
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