Happy Guinness World Records Day!
Today is a big day to celebrate and set world records.
Guinness World Records Day was first held in 2004 to mark the Guinness World Records becoming the best-selling copyrighted book of all time.
Find out more.
Check out the Guinness World Records website for more information about Guinness World Records Day.
Attempting, setting or breaking a Guinness World Record.
Have you ever attempted, set or broken a Guinness World Record?
Minigolf in the Guinness World Records.
Did you know there are Guinness World Records for minigolf?
You can find a range of minigolf, crazy golf, adventure golf, and putting world records in the Guinness World Records.
The GWR website has details of them, and you can see a whole page on minigolf in the 2024 edition of the book. It also has a superb crazy golf element on the brilliant cover art challenge.
There's a minigolf record listed in the 2026 edition too.
My Guinness World Record.
I'm a Guinness World Record Holder for "Most miniature golf courses visited" (902 at the time the 2024 edition of the book went to press).
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| Richard & Emily Gottfried at the North Bay Crazy Golf in Scarborough |
You can see the full list of courses Emily and I have visited since the 30th September 2006 on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour page.
We're currently at a combined total of 1,111 courses visited over the last 19 years.
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| At Moby Golf Adventure Golf in Romford, Essex |
Guinness World Record Attempts
I've been a part of a few mass participation Guinness World Record attempts and tried some individual challenges over the years too.
In December 2009 I attempted the Guinness World Record for the 'Most Brussels Sprouts Eaten in a Minute'!
Emily and I helped set a Guinness World Record in May 2009. That was for 'The Largest Picnic across multiple venues'. Over 8,300 people took park in that effort.
We also helped break the Guinness World Record of 'Largest Gathering of People Wearing Boater Hats' while we lived in Luton back in August 2014.
Guinness World Records Attempted:
- 2014 - 'Largest Gathering of People Wearing Boater Hats' - Achieved.
- 2012 - 'Fastest 400m Relay Hop' - Unsuccessful.
- 2012 - 'Largest Group Hop' - Unsuccessful.
- 2011 - 'The most people to ‘High Five’ simultaneously' - Unsuccessful.
- 2010 - 'The UK's longest Conga line' - Unsuccessful.
- 2009 - 'Most Brussels Sprouts Eaten in a Minute' - Unsuccessful.
- 2009 - 'The Largest Picnic across multiple venues' - Achieved.
.JPG "Playing The Himalayas - the world's first miniature golf course - at the St Andrews Ladies' Putting Club in 2012")
.JPG "Playing The Himalayas - the world's first miniature golf course - at the St Andrews Ladies' Putting Club in 2012")
