On a recent visit to Wigan, on a bitterly cold & snowy day, I checked out the Crazy Golf course that I had heard had been refurbished by the Friends of Haigh Country Park.
Nine of the 18-holes have been cleaned up and are open for play during school holidays and the team of volunteers behind the clean-up are looking to develop and renew the course over the coming months and years as it is a work in progress.
.JPG "The Crazy Golf course at Haigh Country Park")
From my brief look at the course it appears to have a mixture of playing surfaces. Some of the holes and obstacles appear to be 'eternit' style Miniature Golf, while others are more unique felt on concrete holes.
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.JPG "One of the 'Eternit' style Miniature Golf holes on the Crazy Golf course at Haigh Country Park")
.JPG "One of the 'to be completed' Crazy Golf holes at Haigh Country Park")
.JPG "Another of the Crazy Golf holes awaiting refurbishment at Haigh Country Park")
The Play Haigh Golf Complex is home to a regular golf course and also a Putting Green called the 'Himalayas'!
.JPG "Minigolf & Crazy Golf at Wigan's Haigh Country Park")
The undulating Putting Green looked very good and it was a shame it wasn't warmer as I would have definitely given it a play.
.JPG "The Himalayan Putting Green at the Play Haigh Golf Complex")
I've played two other courses named 'The Himalayas' - one is in Melbourn, Cambridgeshire and replaced an old Crazy Golf course, the other is at St Andrews and was the world's first-ever Miniature Golf course!
The courses were the 521st and 522nd courses visited on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.
Links:
- Haigh Country Park
- Friends of Haigh Country Park
- Play Haigh Golf Complex
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The Friends of Haigh Country Park in Wigan have been in touch with me following my visit to the Crazy Golf course there back in December 2012.
ReplyDeleteThe course renovations were underway on my visit and there were plans to have the course fully open in 2013.
The team of volunteers have been putting in a lot of time and effort to get the course playable and the Crazy Golf project is nearing completion.
The playing surfaces have all been cleaned, with some still requiring some new felt (which is being searched for).
New obstacles are being installed this week and the opening date should be the weekend before Easter. The plan is for the course to open each throughout the school holidays and then on weekends up to the next school holidays before opening seven days a week.
All the very best to the team of volunteers from the Friends of Haigh Country Park in their Minigolfing Endeavours. I'm looking forward to giving the course a play in the future.
Link:
- Friends of Haigh Country Park