Adventure Golf at The Manor House & Ashbury

Photos of the Adventure Golf course at The Manor House & Ashbury near Okehampton, Devon.

Our friend and minigolf rival Adrian Amey recently sent us through some snaps of a course he'd played - and it's one we haven't been to on our tour.

The new Adventure Golf course is at The Manor House near Okehampton

Even though we haven't visited the course I was able to guess the location with my first try. What a skill.

Earlier this year we explored much of the South West of England and visited 62 minigolf courses in Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and Somerset. Unfortunately The Manor House & Ashbury Hotels don't allow day visitors so it seems unlikely we'll get along to have a game on the course.

Another of our friends, and my Midlands Minigolf Club team-mate, Tiger 'Galactus' Pragnell is a big fan of The Manor House & Ashbury and has played both the old Crazy Golf course and new Adventure Golf on his holidays down there.

Fellow golf stuff collector Martin Vallance is a Greenkeeper at The Ashbury Golf Hotel and has a collection of over 70,000 logo golf balls! Crazy.

Link:
- The Manor House & Ashbury Hotels website

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Crazy Golf in Goodrington Sands

A visit to our 600th minigolf course in the UK!

Having visited 21 courses overseas the 600th course visited in the UK was the 18-hole Beton-style Concrete Mini Golf course at Goodrington Park in Goodrington Sands, Paignton, Devon on Thursday 4th June 2015.

Visiting our 600th course in the UK

The courses is known as Quaywest Crazy Golf and from the scorecard is operated by Goodtime Leisure. It certainly lived up to its name as we had a good time playing the course and a pleasant and leisurely round of Crazy Golf.

Always pleasing to see a Mini Golf course open

The course became the 370th played since our tour began on the 30th September 2006 and was the seventh played on our tour of the South West of England.

Playing the Goodrington Sands course

Emily in action

About to putt in for a nice two from a tricky spot

We had great weather on our trip to the English Riviera

A nice two

Emily tapping in on a long hole

Hole 2 onwards

A view of the course

The 12th

The course is in a very nice setting in Goodrington Park

  

The pleasing 17th hole

A round of Crazy Golf on the layout costs £4 for adults and in our match-up I won with a score of 39 to Emily's 42. It was very pleasing for us both to score aces on the 17th hole.

The Goodrington Sands Mini Golf Champion

While having a wander around Paignton it was great to see the course on a postcard - and you could get 12 for £1! I had to buy some for my collection and to post out.

Overall the 600th course visited on our tour was on Sunday 31st May at the Jurassic Golf course at Santa-Fe Adventure Park in Swanage, Dorset.

Visiting and playing miniature golf courses came about from our love of travelling around the UK. We began going to different seasides when we got our first car in 2006 and after a trip to Southsea, Hampshire we found the MiniatureGolfer website where there were around 600 minigolf courses listed around the UK. Since then we've tried to play as many as we can.

A view of the nice seaside resort of Goodrington Sands

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Crazy Golf at The Imperial Hotel in Torquay

Playing the Crazy Golf course at The Imperial Hotel in Torquay, Devon.

The 617th course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour was the Crazy Golf at the hotel we stayed at in Torquay. Prior to our arrival we didn't know there was a course there.

The Mini Golf course on the balcony. Handily quite near the bar too

A nice bonus on our holiday.

Emily on the second hole

The 9-hole layout was the 18th found, and sixth played on our tour of the South West of England, and the 369th played overall on our tour.

Playing hole 1

In our match on the 3rd June 2015 Emily scored 20 for the win. I scored 21.

Emily playing the balcony course

Emily winning

Photos of the 9-hole Crazy Golf course.

You can find The Imperial Hotel on Park Hill Road, Torquay, Devon, TQ1 2DG. Check out the hotel website for more information.

Aceing the 7th

We played a similar looking course at the Brockhole Lake District Visitor Centre on a road-trip in 2012.

Emily playing the Brockhole course

The same obstacle in Torquay

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Link:
- The Imperial Hotel, Torquay website

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Teignmouth Adventure Golf

Playing the Adventure Golf course on Teignmouth Sea Front.

The 616th course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour was the dinosaur Adventure Golf course at The Den in Teignmouth, Devon.

A BIG minigolf dinosaur

The 12-hole Adventure Golf layout was the fifth played on our tour of the South West of England and the 368th played overall on our tour.

Visiting the 616th course on our tour

On the Adventure Golf course in Teignmouth

   

Tapping in a putt

Some of the holes on the course are really long

A minigolf crocodile, or alligator

Emily Putting on the island

  

An additional seagull obstacle on the course

In our match on the 3rd June 2015 Emily scored 45 and I scored 32 to take the win.

Teignmouth is also home to The Street With No Name!?

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Link:
- The Den, Teignmouth web page

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Mini Golf in Dawlish

A visit to the Mini Golf course in Dawlish, Devon.

The 615th course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour was the Mini Golf layout at Tucks Plot near the seafront, The Strand and gardens in Dawlish, Devon.

The 18-hole course is a Swedish Felt variety of Minigolf

The 18-hole Swedish Felt B-Run type of Mini Golf was the 16th visited our tour of the South West of England during June 2015.

Unfortunately the course was closed when we were in Dawlish on Wednesday 3rd June

Check out photos of the course below.

For more information on the course, opening times and prices visit the Dawlish Mini Golf web page.

The 'Dawlish' sign has been prominent on the course for many years. In older photos of the course the word was spelled out in plants

There's been a miniature golf layout on the site for many years. I've got a number of old postcards dating from the 1930's and 40's through to the 70's and 80's that show a grass Putting course on the spot. It was pleasing to see a couple of postcards showing the current course on sale in the town and I bought a stack of them from the Tourist Information Centre to post out to friends.

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Link:
- Dawlish Mini Golf

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