Crazy Golf in Abingdon-on-Thames

Looking back at the old Crazy Golf course at the Abbey Meadows in Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.

One of the courses we've visited and played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour travels but has since become a 'lost' course was the 10-hole Crazy Golf layout at the Abbey Meadows in my home town of Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

The course was the first one I ever played way back in the early 1980's.

The course had been in the park since the 1950's but was removed at the end of the 2016 season as part of renovations to the area.

It's always sad to see an old miniature golf course removed. Especially so when it's not replaced by a new one.

The last hole of the first course I ever played

In August 2007 the course became the 31st played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Playing hole 5 in 2007

Playing hole 5 in 2012

Playing hole 5 for the very last time in 2016

We revisited the Abbey Meadows Crazy Golf course in Abingdon in June 2012 and December 2014.

The course was very mossy on our visit in 2014

Crazy Golf on the roof of Selfridges Oxford Street in London

A look back at the Bompas & Parr rooftop crazy golf course at Selfridges Oxford Street in London.

Back in the summer of 2012 Bompas & Parr created a brilliant 'London Landmark in Cake Creations' crazy golf course on the roof of Selfridges on Oxford Street!

The course harked back to the early 1930's when the department store had a miniature golf course as part of the rooftop garden.

The Selfridges rooftop crazy golf course was the 298th course played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour back in June 2012.

The 2012 edition was a brilliant idea and a tricky, but fun 9-hole layout. We played a number of tournaments up there and I became the Crazy Golf with Bompas & Parr Champion in August 2012.

20 for 20 - Minigolf at the 2012 Oslympic Games

20 for 20: 20 years of our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

This month we're celebrating two decades of our crazy minigolfing adventures.

Back in the summer of 2012 we were proud to be a part of the Oswestry Games. The festival of sport in Shropshire saw the sport of minigolf included in a multi-sport games event in the UK for the first time.

We scooped Gold, Silver and Bronze medals at the Games - and what very fine medals they are too

Related blog posts:

• 20 for 20
• Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
• Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour is 20 years old this month

Winning the 2012 World Alternative Games Egg Throwing Championships

A look back at the 2012 World Alternative Games Egg Throwing Championships in Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales.

I was one half of the winning pair to scoop the title of World Egg Throwing Championships at the World Alternative Games in 2012!

My team-mate Jas Kukielka and I were victorious in a field of 19 teams, with players from Wales, England, France, the Republic of Ireland, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands competing for the gold medal.

The 2012 World Alternative Games Egg Throwing Championships Gold Medal winning team and the Silver Medallists - from l-r Jas 'Jasain Bolt' Kukielka, Richard Gottfried (with Egg), Seve Kukielka

The sport involves one player as the Egg Thrower and one as the Egg Catcher. Each pair chose two raw eggs and throw / toss / lob the egg to their partner. The Thrower always remains at one end, with the Catcher moving further back after each successful catch until there is just one team left standing with a whole unbroken egg.

About the World Alternative Games.

The World Alternative Games was a festival of sport that took place in Britain’s Smallest Town – Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales. The inaugural edition in 2012 saw over 50 different weird and wacky, odd and obscure sports taking place during the two week event.

The World Alternative Games were held in 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018.

Find out more on the World Alternative Games website.

Ham & Egging.

When I started blogging about taking part in different sports and games back in 2006 I never realised that six years later I’d be an actual world champion!

Related blog posts:

• Egg
• Egg Throwing
• Llanwrtyd Wells
• World Alternative Games

The (Crazy) Golf Apocalypse

A minigolf course based on The End Times!

We played the Golf Apocalypse miniature golf course back in August 2012.

The layout had been created as part of the London Pleasure Gardens, an area set-up to tap into the passing trade between the DLR and the London 2012 Olympic Games at the ExCel centre.

Golf Apocalypse was the first really really really mad-cap pop-up course we played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

The layout contained all manner of strange minigolf obstacles and we found ourselves playing through the fuselage of a crashed aeroplane, around a pinball machine, a snooker table and into a volcano.

The pop-up miniature golf course was the first we saw to use reclaimed materials in its construction. Something that has become commonplace these days and we've seen and played a number of funky, junky, scrap, ghetto, trash, garbage, graffiti, wreckage, and art-based courses since.

The 9-hole Golf Apocalypse course was the 304th course played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.