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Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Hole 13 - Dunny - at the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre

Playing the 'Dunny' hole at the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre in Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK.

Playing Hole 13 of Australian Adventure Golf at Adlington Golf Centre

The Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre became the 1,117th course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour since September 2006.

The gigantic course lays claim to the title of being the largest Adventure Golf course in Europe and features 18-holes of outdoor adventure golf that are played over 1500sqm of greens and a 10,000sqm site.

The theming is superb and very immersive, with lots of interactive elements. And the holes, obstacles and very large greens are a very tricky - but still fun - playing area to tackle.

Hole 13 - Dunny - at the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre

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Saturday, May 16, 2026

Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre

A view of the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre in Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK.

The Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre became the 1,117th course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour since September 2006.

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Check out the Adlington Golf Centre website for more information on the Australian Adventure Golf course.

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Didgeridoo hole at the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre

Playing hole 12 - Didgeridoo - on the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre in Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK.

The Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre became the 1,117th course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour since September 2006.

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Check out the Adlington Golf Centre website for more information on the Australian Adventure Golf course.

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Sydney Opera House hole at the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre

Playing hole 9 - Sydney Opera House - on the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre in Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK.

The Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre became the 1,117th course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour since September 2006.

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Check out the Adlington Golf Centre website for more information on the Australian Adventure Golf course.

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Boomerang hole at the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre

Playing hole 7 - Boomerangs - on the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre in Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK.

The Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre became the 1,117th course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour since September 2006.

Hole 7 - Boomerangs - at the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre

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Check out the Adlington Golf Centre website for more information on the Australian Adventure Golf course.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

A look at the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre

Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre in Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK.

The Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre became the 1,117th course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour since September 2006.

Hole 9 of the Australian Adventure Golf at Adlington Golf Centre

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Hole 5 at Adlington Golf Centre's Australian Adventure Golf course (May 2026)

Playing hole 5 (Spider Cave) at the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre in Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK.

The Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre became the 1,117th course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour since September 2006.

Emily Gottfried playing hole 5 - Spider Cave - at the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre

Emily playing hole 5 - Spider Cave - at the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre

Stuck in a spider's web at Australian Adventure Golf at Adlington Golf Centre

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Sunday, May 10, 2026

Hole 4 of the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre (May 2026)

Playing hole 4 (Aussie Truck) at the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre in Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK.

The Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre became the 1,117th course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour since September 2006.

Emily playing hole 4 - Aussie Truck - at the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre

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A view of the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre (May 2026)

A look at the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre in Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK.

The Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre became the 1,117th course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour since September 2006.

Hole 9 - Sydney Opera House - at the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre

Find out more.

Check out the Adlington Golf Centre website for more information on the Australian Adventure Golf course.

Videos:

Hole 5 of the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre (May 2026)

Playing hole 5 (Spider Cave) at the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre in Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK.

The Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre became the 1,117th course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour since September 2006.

Emily playing hole 5 - Spider Cave - at the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre

Stuck in a spider's web at Australian Adventure Golf at Adlington Golf Centre

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Check out the Adlington Golf Centre website for more information on the Australian Adventure Golf course.

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Thursday, May 07, 2026

Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre

Playing the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre.

We visited the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre in Adlington, Macclesfield today.

Emily Gottfried playing at the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

Emily tees-off on hole 1

The Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre became the 1,117th course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour since September 2006.

Richard Gottfried playing at the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

A very tricky second putt

Emily almost got a hole-in-one at the Sydney Opera House

Playing a snakey hole 2

Richard Gottfried at the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre

Getting unstuck from some of the theming was almost as tricky as some of my second (and third) putts on the very big greens!

The 18-hole outdoor Australian-themed adventure golf course is absolutely massive - like, really really really big for a minigolf course!

Emily playing hole 3

Look at the size of that green!

The theming is superb and very immersive. And the holes, obstacles and very large greens are a very tricky - but still fun - playing area to tackle.

Can you guess what my favourite hole theme and obstacle was?

Australian Adventure Golf at Adlington Golf Centre

For one reason or another it's taken us a while to get to the venue - even though it's only around 7 miles from us and just over the border in Cheshire, it's not a part of the county we've ever been to in the decade we've lived up here! We're glad we finally had time to make it there and handy that it was just a short drive from where we'd been in Poynton earlier in the afternoon.

Richard & Emily Gottfried on their Crazy World of Minigolf Tour at the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre

The largest minigolf course in Europe.

The Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre lays claim to the title of being the largest Adventure Golf course in Europe and features 18-holes of outdoor adventure golf that are played over 1500sqm of greens and a 10,000sqm site.

Find out more.

Check out the Adlington Golf Centre website for more information on the Australian Adventure Golf course.

Richard Gottfried

Friday, March 27, 2026

Crazy Golf at Wonderland in Telford, Shropshire, England

Last week I asked the question - Where in the world was this crazy golf course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour?

The Jolly Rodger Crazy Golf course at Wonderland Telford in July 2012

The answer - Wonderland in Telford, Shropshire, England.

The crazy golf course was the 300th played and 500th visited overall on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Check out the Wonderland website for more information.

Richard Gottfried

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Crazy Golf in Brighton

Last week I asked 'Where in the world was this crazy golf course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour?'.

The Crazy Golf course East of Palace Pier in Brighton in July 2007

The answer was - Brighton, England.

The 18-hole Crazy Golf course East of the Palace Pier in Brighton, East Sussex was first visited in March 2007.

Richard Gottfried

Friday, January 30, 2026

The Crazy World of Minigolf Tour is 20 years old in 2026

This year is the 20th year playing on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

2026 sees us hit another big minigolf milestone as we mark 20 years of our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour travels.

How it started.

We played the Victory Trail course at Treasure Island Adventure Golf in Southsea, Hampshire, England on Saturday 30th September 2006. At the end of our 9-hole round I won a free game by firing the cannon on the lucky last hole!

When we got home from the weekend away we found a list of 600 or so minigolf courses in the UK and wider British Isles on the excellent MiniatureGolfer.com website that Tim 'Ace Man' Davies had compiled. We thought it'd be fun to see how many of them we could visit on day trips and weekends away to the seaside.

How its going.

To date we've been to 1,114 miniature golf courses. 1,053 of them have been in the British Isles.

As well as playing minigolf in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Jersey and the Isle of Man we’ve travelled to minigolf courses in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Chile, Finland, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, Spain (including Lanzarote and Majorca), Sweden and the USA.

From 600 courses in the UK to more than 1,300.

When our crazy golfing travels began in 2006 there were around 600 miniature golf courses in the UK and wider British Isles.

There are now more than 1,400 - and there are lots of new places to play the game opening all the time.

Unfortunately, several courses have closed over the years. But on a brighter note, some others have been refurbished, redeveloped, or completely transformed into new layouts.

All of the changes and updates have meant that our minigolfing quest to visit every course is becoming never-ending!

When we originally set off to visit as many courses as possible the target list was 600 in the British Isles. And almost 20 years later, we've still got around 50 of those original courses to visit!

Minigolf record makers.

Our travels have been recognised by the Guinness World Records, and I'm a record holder for "Most miniature golf courses visited" (902 at the time of going to press). Check out the Guinness World Records 2024 book and the GWR website to see a lot more minigolf records too!

Where next on our crazy minigolfing adventures?

Where do you think we should visit on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour next? Do get in touch to let us know your suggestions and recommendations, or drop your top picks for minigolf places in the comments.

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Treasure Island Adventure Golf in Southsea

Richard Gottfried

Sunday, January 04, 2026

New minigolf courses in the UK

I'm always on the lookout for new minigolf courses.

Richard Gottfried at Pirates Cove Adventure Golf course at Kingswood Golf Centre near Doncaster

I post about new places planned, in development and opening using the 'New course' tag here on the blog.

If you know of a new minigolf, crazy golf, or adventure golf course opening please do get in touch.

How many minigolf courses are there in the UK today?

As of July 2025, our research indicated there were approximately 1,436 minigolf courses around the UK (and the British Isles including Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, and other islands). This figure included public courses, as well as those at pay-to-enter attractions, holiday parks, hotels, and other 'non-standard' locations. Some of these courses were also under construction / in development. Over time some locations have also been partially or fully refurbished, while others have completely swapped out an old course for a new one in the same spot. Since our last update we've also discovered and unearthed several courses we didn't previously know about that have opened in the last year or so!

Saturday, January 03, 2026

'Crazy Golf' is 100 years old this year

Crazy Golf is 100 years old in 2026.

The Original Crazy Golf course on South Parade in Skegness, Lincolnshire, England (2011)

The first miniature golf course using the name 'Crazy Golf' opened on South Parade in Skegness, Lincolnshire, England in 1926.

The Original Crazy Golf course in Skegness (2015)

England's first 'Crazy Golf' course opened on South Parade in Skegness in 1926 and the game is widely known by that name in the UK. Crazy Golf is seldom, if ever, used overseas except in tourist spots popular with UK holidaymakers.

Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

In May 2015 The Original Crazy Golf course became the 363rd played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. We'd first visited the course in 2011.

A sign for The Original Crazy Golf course in Skegness (2015)

This sign for The Original Crazy Golf course in Skegness was located a little further down the road and next to another adventure golf course

From a Crazy Golf course to a hotel.

The Original Crazy Golf course in Skegness had been derelict since 2018 and the site has now had a Travelodge hotel and Starbucks drive-thru built on it.

Crazy Golf postcards from the course.

Here are two minigolf postcards from our collection showing the same location.

CRAZY GOLF. SKEGNESS. A Sapphire Card. LS2225. Posted from Skegness to New Basford, Nottingham in 1972

Craz-e-Golf at Skegness by E.T.W Dennis & Sons Ltd S.2142 postally used on 21 June 1977

This postcard shows the course, note the name for the games is 'Craz-e-Golf'. This is interesting to see, and a name we'd not seen before

The postcard was sent to Liverpool from Skegness on the 21st June 1977 (a Tuesday). Note the nice postcard cancellation on the card too

The first miniature golf course.

The world's first miniature golf course was set-up at St Andrews, Scotland in 1867.

The Himalayas course is the world's first miniature golf and is home to the St Andrews Ladies' Putting Club. If you visit you'll find two superb grass putting layouts there - one 18-hole course and one consisting of 9-holes.

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Playing the 'Dunny' hole at the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre in Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK.

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Saturday, May 16, 2026

A view of the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre in Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK.

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Playing hole 12 - Didgeridoo - on the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre in Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK.

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Playing hole 9 - Sydney Opera House - on the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre in Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK.

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Playing hole 7 - Boomerangs - on the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre in Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

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Sunday, May 10, 2026

Playing hole 4 (Aussie Truck) at the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre in Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK.

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Thursday, May 07, 2026

Playing the Australian Adventure Golf course at Adlington Golf Centre.

The largest minigolf course in Europe.

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Friday, March 27, 2026

Last week I asked the question - Where in the world was this crazy golf course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour?

Check out the Wonderland website for more information.

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Last week I asked 'Where in the world was this crazy golf course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour?'.

Friday, January 30, 2026

This year is the 20th year playing on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

How it started.

How its going.

From 600 courses in the UK to more than 1,300.

Minigolf record makers.

Where next on our crazy minigolfing adventures?

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Sunday, January 04, 2026

I'm always on the lookout for new minigolf courses.

How many minigolf courses are there in the UK today?

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Saturday, January 03, 2026

Crazy Golf is 100 years old in 2026.

Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

From a Crazy Golf course to a hotel.

Crazy Golf postcards from the course.

The first miniature golf course.

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