Hitting our 1,000th minigolf course visit.
We reached our minigolf milestone of 1,000 course visits on a trip south last week when we swung by three new locations on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.
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| Course 999 - Mini-Golf at Prospect Park in Reading, Berkshire |
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| Course 1,000 - Spinners Mini Golf in Reading town centre |
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| Course 1,001 - Wildforest Falls Adventure Golf in Bognor Regis, West Sussex. This course was created on the same spot that had been a Putting Green |
The first place we played on what would become a mammoth mission to visit all the courses in the UK was Treasure Island Adventure Golf on Southsea seafront back on the 30th September 2006 when Emily, me and my brother Christopher had a game on the 9-hole course and I won a Free Game by firing the cannon on the lucky last hole.
When combined with my brother's branch of the tour, the total number of courses we've visited in the last 16 years is 1,041!
Back in 2006 there were around 600 courses in the UK. Many many more have opened since and we've noted hundreds of new locations in the last couple of years.
We've been able to play 561 of the 1,001 courses Emily and I have been to as some have not been open, others were abandoned, derelict or completely removed from the spot they were supposed to be on!
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| The 18-hole Arnold Palmer Putting Course at Waterloo Gardens on the esplanade in Bognor Regis was the 275th course played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour in October 2011. It's a superb layout and was a real pleasure to play it again. When I played Emily in 2011 I lost with a round of 42 to her 39. This time I shot another 42! |
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| The remains of the old Crazy Golf course at Hotham Park in Bognor Regis can still be seen. We played it in 2011 |
Of the 1,001 courses, 956 have been in the British Isles, with others visited on our overseas travels.
