This time last year we'd already visited 20 minigolf courses!
What a difference a year makes. By this time last year we'd visited 20 minigolf courses as our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour got off to a flying start.
As it stands today we've been to one course in 2021. And that was just passing by it during a walk on New Year's Day.
Our travels in the first days of 2020 took us to miniature golf venues in Oxford, Birmingham, Manchester, Northwich, Doncaster and Castleford.
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| The last new course we played together before the pandemic was the Crazy Golf course at Sunnybank Gardens in Hatfield, Doncaster on the 19th January 2020 |
Minigolf in the time of coronavirus
Prior to the coronavirus pandemic we were closing in on visiting the final 40 courses of the original 600 we set out to play in 2006. We were also very close to hitting 1,000 course visits overall.
We were still able to visit a total of 46 courses in 2020, including revisits. 15 of them were new layouts to us. We visited eight courses during the pandemic (March to December), playing two of them.
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| The last new course we played was the Gator Adventure Golf at Escape Entertainment in Chorley in August |
New minigolf courses in the UK
We've continued to research, monitor and promote the game and know about at least another 90 new courses now open, being built, in development or planned to open in the UK. It'll be nice to swing by them when it's safe to get back out on the road again.
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| The last pop-up Crazy Golf course I visited was at Coal Drops Yard in King's Cross, London last February |
