The Masters Putting Green crazy golf course in Southport, Merseyside is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year.
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| The Masters Putting Green Crazy Golf course at King's Gardens in Southport in 2016 |
The 18-hole crazy golf course opened for business back in 1965.
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| The course on a very busy Miniature Golf Day in 2019 |
The Masters Putting Green in Southport is of the Arnold Palmer Putting Course variety, and opened under the Arnold Palmer branding in 1965.
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| Playing The Masters Putting Green at King's Gardens in Southport back in September 2009 |
Find out more.
You can find out more about The Masters Putting Green on the Southport Crazy Golf website.
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| The Masters Putting Green in Southport, 23rd November 2016 |
Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.
The Masters Putting Green in Southport was the 150th course we played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. We've revisited the course in October and November 2016, January and October 2018, and September 2019.
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| September 2009 |
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| October 2016 |
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| November 2016 |
A revisit is long overdue!
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| The Windmill at The Masters Putting Green in Southport, 23rd November 2016 |
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| Winning a FREE GAME at The Masters Putting Green Crazy Golf course at King's Gardens in Southport, 4th September 2009 |
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| Winning a FREE GAME at The Masters Putting Green Crazy Golf course at King's Gardens in Southport, 4th September 2009 |
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| The Masters Putting Green Crazy Golf at King's Gardens in Southport, 1st January 2018 |
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| The Masters Putting Green Crazy Golf at King's Gardens in Southport, 1st January 2018 |
Arnold Palmer Putting Courses.
Arnold Palmer Putting Courses are a design classic and include all the elements that make a Crazy Golf course great – the Windmill, the Waterwheel, an Obelisk, ledges, bunkers, traps, flat loops, hills and plateaus – everything laid out to make a course interesting, testing and most of all fun!
They're my favourite type of minigolf course and I've visited most of those that still remain in the UK.
The Arnold Palmer branded miniature golf courses were part of the Arnold Palmer Enterprises empire set-up in 1961 that saw the legendary golfer's name licensed and franchised to a wide-range of activities and products including Dry Cleaning centres and an Arnold Palmer brand foot detergent.
By 1966 there were 130 Arnold Palmer Putting Courses in the USA, with ten in Japan and some in South Africa.
Southport's Crazy Golf course lays claim to being the first Arnold Palmer Putting Course in the UK (there is also some information that a course in Coventry opened as the first in 1965 and was part of an Arnold Palmer Driving Range in the city). An Arnold Palmer Putting course was also located at a Driving Range in Sheffield.
Take a look at my blog post about "Arnold Palmer Putting Courses in the UK" for further information.
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