Our first minigolf course visit of the year

A revisit to The Masters Crazy Golf course in Southport.

To celebrate the first day of the new year we headed over to Southport, one of our local seasides, for the afternoon. While there we revisited what was originally the 150th course played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - The Masters Crazee Putting course at King's Gardens.

The 17th and 18th holes

We played the course on our first visit to the seaside resort in September 2009 and revisited twice in 2016. Last year raced by and we never made it back to Southport to have a game. Hopefully we'll return for a round or two later this year.

A view of the course in King's Garden's from the pier

It's a great 18-hole minigolf course and also has a lucky last hole - which I won on when we played there. I've still got the free game card.

There's a lot of great signage on the course

You can see more photos of the course in our blog posts from October and November 2016.

It was very rainy on our visit

Fingers crossed for a lot more seaside and crazy golf course visits in 2018.

Related blog posts:
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- Southport

Playing Crazee Golf at the Tintype Art Gallery in London

Visiting the Tintype Contemporary Art Gallery and playing a very crazy Minigolf hole at the Crazee Golf Art Exhibition.

On Thursday 6th September the latest stop on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour saw us head to the Tintype Art Gallery in Hatton Garden in London for the Private Viewing Opening Night of the new ‘Crazee Golf’ exhibition.

The idea of the exhibition was to get 18 artists to design and create their own Crazy Golf ‘holes’. The result is a wide-range of wacky, odd, strange and intriguing pieces of art. The exhibition is not a Crazy Golf course as such, but it was certainly interesting to see some other points of view of Crazy Golf!

One of the designs has three copies of the erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey laid (splayed!) out as a Minigolf Putting course, another is a short film, others are a series of sketches and one is a series of photos of a derelict Crazy Golf course in Bournemouth. It’s one we’ve visited on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour and I recognised it straight away!

Artist Joby Williamson created a Crazee Golf challenge hole called ‘dancefloor yips’ and offers visitors the chance to hit a ball through the air, towards a hole in the top right hand corner of a window and onto a makeshift green on the roof below! Me and my Minigolf Doubles teammate Kevin ‘Max’ Moseley both had a go, but neither of us managed to Ace it. I don’t think anyone managed a hole-in-one – it’s very tricky indeed!

Up on the roof - The 'green' of the playable Crazee Golf hole at the Tintype Gallery

The exhibition is curated by Oona Grimes & Teresa Grimes and is open to the public from the 7th September until the 27th October 2012. I’ll be heading back to give the ‘dancefloor yips’ challenge hole another play.

You can view the Crazee Golf exhibition and photos of the designs on the Tintype Gallery website too.

Links:
- Tintype Contemporary Art Gallery
- Crazee Golf exhibition at the Tintype Contemporary Art Gallery

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- Crazee Golf Art Exhibition to Open at the Tintype Gallery in London!
- Minigolf and Crazy Golf courses in and around London
- Arts & Crafts Blog Posts

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Crazee Golf Art Exhibition to Open at the Tintype Gallery in London!

The Tintype Contemporary Art Gallery in London has a new upcoming exhibition entitled “CRAZEE GOLF"!

The Crazee Golf exhibition is the result of 18 artists work to create their own Crazy Golf designs. You can visit the exhibition, curated Oona Grimes & Teresa Grimes, from the 7th September until the 27th October 2012.

As an avid Miniature Golfer and Crazy Golf Champion I’m really looking forward to visiting the exhibition (and playing on the displays...)!

You can find out more about the Crazee Golf exhibition on the Tintype website.