A blog about our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. With a sprinkling of nostalgia and urban exploration for good measure.
Sunday, May 15, 2022
Crazy World of Minigolf Tour update
Sunday, May 08, 2022
Getting close to 1,000 courses
We're edging closer to our 1,000th minigolf course visit!
Crazy Putting Challenge minigolf course at Hamptworth Golf Club - the 875th course we visited during a road-trip to Southampton in 2019 |
Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
At the Adventure Golf Course at the Pleasure Beach Gardens in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk during a tour of the Norfolk coast in 2016 |
Playing the Mini Golf Pitch and Putt course at Onchan Park on the Isle of Man in July 2018 |
Saturday, April 09, 2022
Mini Golf at Vivary Park in Taunton
Looking back at our visit to the Mini Golf course in Taunton's Vivary Park.
In our minigolf match up at Vivary Park on the 12th June 2015 Emily scored 45 and I shot a par round of 36.
Check out the photos below to see the 18-holes.
Visit the Vivary Golf & Adventure Centre website for more information.
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Paradise Island Adventure Golf Open Championships 2021
The PIAG Open Championships are back for 2021.
The Tiki Hut Trail course at Paradise Island Adventure Golf in the Trafford Centre, Manchester |
More details of the event and the PIAG courses in Manchester, Cheshire Oaks, Glasgow, Livingston, Sheffield, Derby, Rushden Lakes and Plymouth can be found on the Paradise Island Adventure Golf website.
Monday, May 10, 2021
The Minigolf Nations Cup 2008
We made our Great Britain team debuts at the 2008 Nations Cup of Minigolf in Tampere, Finland thirteen years ago today!
In action at the Minigolf Nations Cup in Tampere, Finland |
Monday, March 15, 2021
Happy 9th Anniversary to KISS by Monster Mini Golf!
Today is the 9th Anniversary of KISS by Monster Mini Golf in Las Vegas.
Emily putting into The Demon's mouth at KISS Monster Mini Golf |
Tuesday, February 02, 2021
Porth Island Krazy Golf in Newquay
A look at the Porth Island Krazy Golf course in Newquay, Cornwall.
We played the Porth Island Krazy Golf course in Newquay on our road-trip around the South West coast of England back in June 2015.
The course was similar to a Beton Concrete type of miniature golf course and interesting, if a little too difficult, to play.
The course was the 47th visited on our two-week holiday, the 377th played overall and the 646th visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.
Visit the Newquay Football Golf website for more information on the Porth Island Krazy Golf course.
Tuesday, December 08, 2020
Dull Men's Club Calendar for 2021
Looking ahead to next year. Now.
What does next year have in store? |
Dull events
About the Dull Men's Club
Visit the Dull Men's Club website for more information.
The Dull Men's Club Calendar for 2021 will be available from Amazon.
Monday, December 07, 2020
Oregon Fried Chicken
We had planned to visit Oregon on holiday this year.
The closest we're getting to Oregon anytime soon is Oregon Fried Chicken in Rochdale |
Friday, November 27, 2020
The Dull Men's Club 2021 Calendar
A look ahead to the Dull Men's Club Calendar for 2021.
Check out the Dull Men's Club website for more information.
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Social distancing on an escalator
I've been documenting a number of aspects of the coronavirus pandemic here and on my social media. One of my areas of interest is the variety of warnings, instructions and directional signage there is around social distancing, so I loved seeing this photo Emily took of the social distancing measures in place on an escalator in M&S!
Kind of like chevrons on the motorway |
Surely the 2 metre apart distance stickers should be on the moving walkway as well, rather than the static sides of the escalator? I wonder how many people are adhering to the rule and waiting for the person ahead of them to reach the first marker?
Check out my Instagram account and the various highlights for snaps of the social distancing, coronavirus and Covid-19 signs I've seen on my (limited) travels this year.
Social Distancing World Champion! I don't think anyone is winning this year |
Social distancing floor signs at the Burlington pub in Chesterfield |
Monday, September 21, 2020
666
A look back at the 666th course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.
For the 666th blog post of the year here's a look at the 666th course we visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - Treasure Island Adventure Golf in Bridlington.
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Saturday, August 08, 2020
A Mini Golf Apocalypse
A look back at the Golf Apocalypse crazy golf course in London.
As we're in the midst of a pandemic I thought it'd be interested to look back at an apocalypse - the Golf Apocalypse crazy golf course from 2012.
Looking back to 2012
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.A BIG piece of OBEY street art in the distance |
Golf Apocalypse was the first really really really mad-cap pop-up course we played on our travels.
What a sight! |
A crazy set-up
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.What a thing to putt through |
Pinball wizard |
Snooker loopy |
The End |
Pop-up crazy golf
The pop-up miniature golf course was the first 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, wreck and art-based courses since.Playing hole 2 |
Competitive minigolf
In our minigolf match-up Emily picked up the win with a score of 25. I was second with 26, with Gareth Holmes third with 27 and Alan Norman on 28.Emily playing hole 3 |
22 was a very good score to get on the 9-hole course |
The course’s designer and owner, Dave Lovatt, was also responsible for the 9-hole Crazy Golf course that staged the Welsh Open Crazy Golf Championships as part of the Newport Big Splash Festival in 2010. Following the 2012 pop-up in London the course moved on to Bristol.
Crazy golfing at the end of the world - from l-r Gareth Holmes, Richard Gottfried, Emily Gottfried, Dave Lovatt, Alan Norman |
Our challenge match with Dave went to a sudden-death play-off between Dave and Alan after both players had shot rounds of 22. Dave picked up the win on the deciding hole to take the title. I had finished on 24, Gareth had a 25 and Emily had shot a 29.
Alan snookered |
Gareth putting on hole 1 |
A different sort of podium |