DartsCrazy - the new game from UrbanCrazy

UrbanCrazy's new DartsCrazy game will be free to play at Regents Place in London next Friday, 8th September between 11am and 3pm.

Check out the video below to see the DartsCrazy board / course in action.



Check out the DartsCrazy website for more info on the game.

As well as minigolf / crazy golf / adventure golf the team at UrbanCrazy have also created PongCrazy - table tennis mixed with Crazy Golf style hazards and obstacles!

Links:
- UrbanCrazy
- DartsCrazy
- PongCrazy

Golf Bar Leeds

A visit to the indoor Golf simulator at Golf Bar Leeds.

While in Leeds we swung by the Golf Bar near the canal and train station. It looks like a nice venue and we received a nice welcome from the team there.

You can find Golf Bar Leeds at 1 Little Neville Street, Granary Wharf

There are three bays to play Golf at the bar in Leeds

A few years ago we had a fun Christmas 'Do' at an indoor golf simulator in London.

Check out the Golf Bar's website for more information, opening times and prices.

Related blog posts:
- Leeds

Indoor Adventure Mini Golf in Swindon

Playing indoor minigolf at The Golfing Hole Adventure Golf course in Swindon.

At The Golfing Hole indoor Adventure Golf course in Swindon

On Sunday 11 January Emily and I visited Swindon, Wiltshire to play our first miniature golf course of the New Year. The location was The Golfing Hole Indoor Adventure Golf course on Mead Way.

Emily playing hole 2 - a big ramp that leads to a spiral

Putting into a machine

Emily putts into one of the factory's machines. This one was really tough

Putting from the back of the green

There's a BIG minigolf loop-di-loop on one of the holes

   

My favourite hole at The Golfing Hole. Though quite what a green 'grass' minigolf layout with sandy bunkers is doing inside a 'factory' I don't know. Very crazy golf! 

The course was the 589th visited and 355th played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour since 2006. In 2014 we visited 46 courses and played 28 of them.

Emily putts out after playing through a cabin/site office in The Golfing Hole factory

During our match we played through each of the obstacles, rather than taking the easier line and putting around the lumps and bumps of the greens. Some of the holes in the pipes were easier to get the ball into than others, with a few of them causing a lot of frustration. The result of our contest was a draw, with a score of 54 each.

At the first miniature golf course visited in 2015

We've played quite a few indoor mini, crazy and adventure golf courses over the years and always like to see Blacklight / UV minigolf holes. The Golfing Hole has two holes that tick this box.

Hole 13 leads into the blacklight area, while the tee-off point for hole 14 is inside

This hole was really difficult as the gap at the top of the ramp isn't much bigger than the golf ball

Playing out the UV hole

Emily tees-off inside the blacklight room

And putts out in the light of the factory

An 18-hole round of minigolf at The Golfing Hole Indoor Adventure Golf course cost us £7 each. Full price details and opening times can be found on The Golfing Hole Adventure Golf website.

In addition to the Adventure Golf course the indoor venue has a licensed bar, air hockey, pool tables and table football.

The course was built by City Golf, check out their website too.

Related blog posts:
- Indoor Mini, Crazy and Adventure Golf courses
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour overall list
- Mini Golf courses visited in 2014
- Previous blog comment about The Golfing Hole
- A little bit of indoor minigolf in Woking

Links:
- The Golfing Hole Adventure Golf website
- The Golfing Hole on Twitter
- The Golfing Hole on Facebook
- City Golf

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Indoor Minigolf, Crazy Golf and Adventure Golf courses

Details of indoor Miniature Golf courses we’ve found on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

At Quest for Golf in Dudley

With the British weather getting rather wintry I thought it’d be good to put together a blog post about the indoor Miniature Golf courses Emily and I have found on our travels.

Richard at Brean's indoor Crazy Golf at the Leisure Dome Amusement Arcade

The great thing is most are open 364 days of the year whatever the weather.

Richard playing in a League Match at Adventure Island Mini Golf at Star City, Birmingham

Putting in the Brewmaster's Open Tournament at the Camden Town Brewery in London

Richard on the Search for Atlantis indoor Mini Golf course at Castleford's Xscape centre

Richard plays the indoor Adventure Golf course at the Fairworld Amusement Arcade in Cleethorpes

Richard playing the Minigolf course at Alexandra Palace, London

Emily putting at the King Putt indoor Mini Golf in Henderson Las Vegas

Here’s a list of those we’ve played on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour:

5. Magical Golf (formerly Golf FX) at Mannings Amusements in Felixstowe

26. Windmill Theatre Indoor Adventure Golf Course in Great Yarmouth

57 and 58. Adventure Island Mini Golf at Star City, Birmingham

66. Indoor Adventure Golf on Sandown Pier on the Isle of Wight

85 and 85. Paradise Island Adventure Golf in Manchester's Trafford Centre

90 and 91. Paradise Island Adventure Golf at Xscape Braehead, Scotland

151. Golden Isle Indoor Adventure Golf in Blackpool

161 and 162. Jungle Rumble Adventure Golf, Bristol

172. Indoor Congo Adventure Golf course at Codonas Aberdeen, Scotland

175. King Putt Indoor Mini Golf - North West Las Vegas, USA

176. Pike's Pass Miniature Golf - Circus Circus, Las Vegas, USA

177. King Putt Indoor Mini Golf - Henderson, Las Vegas, USA

199 and 200. Cosmic Golf at Xscape Castleford

207. Glow Golf BlackLight Mini Golf in Melbourne, Australia

209. Indoor Putting Green at UrbanGolf, London

212 and 213. Jungle Rumble Indoor Adventure Golf, Liverpool

227. Indoor Adventure Golf at Fairworld Amusement Arcade, Cleethorpes

312. Leisure Dome Amusement Arcade in Brean

317. Quest for Golf Krazy Golf at Quest Merry Hill
327 Whitby (Pleasure Island Amusement Arcade) - Indoor Pirate Adventure Golf course
330 Nottingham (The Cornerhouse) - The Lost City Adventure Golf - The Temple Trail
331 Nottingham (The Cornerhouse) - The Lost City Adventure Golf - Sacred Skull Pass
346 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA - KISS by Monster Mini Golf
347 Shoreditch, London (Swingers Crazy Golf by the Institute of Competitive Socialising) - indoor Crazy Golf
355 Swindon (The Golfing Hole) - Indoor Adventure Golf
359 Castleford (Volcano Falls Adventure Golf at Xscape) - T Rex Trail Adventure Golf course
360 London (Efes Snooker Club, Dalston) - Plonk Golf
384 (666) Bridlington (Esplanade) - Treasure Island Adventure Golf and Pirate Ghost Walk
386 (668) Whitby (Pleasure Island Amusement Arcade) - Indoor Pirate Adventure Golf course - first visited in March 2014 (see 327). Since then the layout has changed significantly and now includes new holes and a reversal of many of the holes
390 (672) London (Waterloo) - Birdies Crazy Golf Club
391 (674) Sheffield (Valley Centertainment) - Paradise Island Adventure Golf, Cinnamon Cove course
392 (676) Brixton, London (Plonk Golf) - Crazy Golf at the Duke of Edinburgh pub beer garden

Lining up a shot on the very tricky Lucky Last Hole at the Paradise Island Adventure Golf course in Sheffield

Emily at the Golden Isle Indoor Adventure Golf course in Blackpool

There are also indoor Minigolf courses at The Corner House in Nottingham, the Paradise Island Adventure Golf courses at Valley Centertainment in Livingston and Cheshire Oaks that we hope to play in the future. And for Christmas 2013 the Mini Golf and Games course is set-up at Peterborough's Queensgate Shopping Centre.

The 2012 Chrizy Golf Champion

Some of the indoor minigolf courses we've played were only temporary or pop-up courses, while sadly a few of the other indoor courses have closed. Check out the posts below for details:

- Watford's TopGolf centre used to have a 9-hole indoor Putting Green, that then became a 5-hole layout before being turned into a decked restaurant area.

- Devonshire Square was home to an indoor Minigolf course in 2009. It was also Christmas-themed in December of that year.

- In 2010 the O2 had a Q-Golf indoor Crazy Golf course set-up.

- Alexandra Palace was also home to an indoor course in 2011.

- The great Swedish Felt indoor Minigolf course in Hither Green, Lewisham was a great tournament venue.

- There was Crazy Golf at the indoor beach at the centre:MK in Milton Keynes in 2011.

- In 2011 the Ipswich Building Society's Sudbury branch had a Minigolf layout set-up.

- The Plaza Hotel and Casino in downtown Las Vegas used to have an indoor Mini Golf course called The Swingers Club.

- In 2011 we attended the launch of the Birdies Pop Up Minigolf business in Manchester.

- In 2012 we headed to the Camden Town Brewery to play a one-day only Minigolf course.

- There was a ‘Mini golf’ layout at the Paralympic Flame Festival hosted by The Disability Resource Centre in Dunstable in August 2012.

- The Tintype Art Gallery in London had a playable art exhibition entitled Crazee Golf in September 2012.

- In November 2012 and November 2013 I played the UrbanCrazy Minigolf course layouts at the London Golf Show at Earl's Court.

- At the London Golf Show in 2013 I also played the new puttup indoor Golf Putting game and UrbanCrazy's PongCrazy gourmet Table Tennis game

- In December 2012 I won the Chrizy Golf Masters Minigolf tournament played on the temporary course layout in Manchester.
- London (London Golf Show at Earls Court) - UrbanCrazy "Signature Course" - 6-hole Portable Crazy Golf. Also played the new PongCrazy table tennis mini-golf game!
- London (London Golf Show at Earls Court) - puttup indoor putting game - 3-hole layout
- Portaputt - Llanwrtyd Wells
- Shoreditch, London (Swingers Crazy Golf by the Institute of Competitive Socialising) - indoor Crazy Golf
- London - an UrbanCrazy minigolf hole at a wedding aboard the HMS President on the River Thames
- Skegness (Lost World Adventure Park) - Indoor Jungle 3D Mini Golf - Closed down and abandoned
- Hatfield (Galleria Outlet Shopping Centre) - Indoor Pirate Mini Golf - Course closed at 6pm (last ticket at 5.30pm)
- Sheffield (Valley Centertainment) - Paradise Island Adventure Golf, Shell Bay course - didn't have time to play this time

Playing the UrbanCrazy Minigolf course at the 2012 London Golf Show

And for hardy types, many of the UK’s outdoor Minigolf courses are also open throughout the year.

Do let us know if you find any other indoor Minigolf courses!

Related Blog Post:

- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

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The Indomigo Minigolf Course

Finding out about a new portable Miniature Golf course from Germany.

Indomigo Minigolf. Photo courtesy of Indomigo

While reading the latest issue of the German Minigolf Sport Federation’s publication – “Minigolf Magazin” – I noticed a very interesting advert on page 17 for an indoor Minigolf course kit!

The product is called Indomigo and provides an 18-hole Miniature Golf course in a portable suitcase.

The Indomigo Minigolf course kit's case and images of the course layouts possible. Photo courtesy of Indomigo

It looks amazing and you can see a video of the net obstacle in action here and Bahn (hole/lane) "Hohes Loch" here. I can't wait to give it a play.

The Indomigo Minigolf course allows you to build a variety of hole layouts with a lane created by putting the three base pieces together, placing the tee-off point and then adding the modular obstacles.

The contents of the Indomigo Minigolf course kit. Photo courtesy of Indomigo

The kit fits together via magnets and you can make up all manner of obstacles set-ups with the kit.

Developed by the Heinen family in Berlin, Germany the Indomigo course is suitable for indoor and outdoor use and costs €875.

The Indomigo Minigolf course set-up and in action. Photo courtesy of Indomigo

For more information check out the Indomigo website, photo gallery and Facebook page.

I know what I want for Christmas...

Links:

- Indomigo website

- Indomigo on Facebook

- Deutscher Minigolfsport Verband (German Minigolf Sport Federation) website

King Putt Indoor Mini Golf - Henderson, Las Vegas

Visiting the King Putt Indoor Mini Golf course in Henderson, Nevada.


Our third minigolf course visit in Las Vegas, Nevada was to the sister-course of the Jungle King Putt in the north west (visit #175) at Tut's King Putt at Southeastern Avenue/Beltway Marketplace on Saturday 12th June.

The course is also an 18-hole indoor blacklight minigolf course, this time with an Egyptian-theme!

Some excellent holes, and some great theming - check out the Mummy's Tomb video below!








The course visit was also the location for the third round of our 'Las Vegas Minigolf Desert Classic' tournament and once again Emily and I tied in the match! Scores below:
Richard 'The Low Roller' Gottfried - 43(+7)
Emily 'Snake Eyes' Gottfried - 43(+7)

Emily's one-shot lead that she had maintained since the 10th and our first stop would therefore continue to the fourth and final round of the competition!

Videos from the visit.

Visit to King Putt Indoor Minigolf in Henderson, Las Vegas 1 of 2


Visit to King Putt Indoor Minigolf in Henderson, Las Vegas 2 of 2 - here Emily plays the 'Mummy's Tomb' hole!


In a non 'Las Vegas Minigolf Desert Classic' tournament round we decided to take advantage of a clear course ahead of us and the great $4 same-day replay offer for another round. This time I beat Emily 43-46 in the 'Irregular Mini Golf Tour 4-Buck Replay Classic'.

Link:
- King Putt

Related blog posts:
- Mini Golf in Las Vegas
- Las Vegas
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - Course Visit #176 - Pike's Pass Miniature Golf - Circus Circus, Las Vegas

The second course we visited in Las Vegas was at the Adventure Dome at Circus Circus.

Emily had previously visited the course in September 2008, but it was to be my first play of the 18-hole 'Pike's Pass Miniature Golf' course.


The holes were quite short and did allow for a few Ace-opportunities. However, it's not the best course I've played to be honest. The Adventure Dome itself and the Circus Circus hotel are great though - nice theming, and playing minigolf with a rollercoaster going over your head is a new experience!





The scores from the second round of the first ever 'Las Vegas Minigolf Desert Classic' competition were:
Richard 'The Low Roller' Gottfried - 40(+4)
Emily 'Snake Eyes' Gottfried - 40(+4)

This meant that Emily kept her one-shot lead heading into the third round at our next stop - the King Putt in southeast Las Vegas/Henderson.

Videos from the visit.

Pike's Pass Miniature Golf in Las Vegas 1 of 4


Pike's Pass Miniature Golf in Las Vegas 2 of 4


Pike's Pass Miniature Golf in Las Vegas 3 of 4


Pike's Pass Miniature Golf in Las Vegas 4 of 4

Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - Course Visit #175 - King Putt Indoor Mini Golf - North West Las Vegas

The first stop on our Tour of Las Vegas' minigolf courses was to the north west location of King Putt.

The Jungle King Putt at Mead and Tenaya is an 18-hole jungle-themed indoor blacklight minigolf course, the first full course of its type that we have played on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour!

Having not really adjusted to 'Vegas-time' we had woken up very early on Thursday 10th June and decided to head out for some breakfast at The Cracked Egg in the north west and then head over to King Putt.

However, our taxi driver didn't know anything about the roads 'off the strip' so we had a lovely scenic trip. With us not knowing the exact opening times of the course either meant that when we arrived at 8am(!?) we had a four hour wait until opening time! This allowed us to have a pleasant four mile walk in the 90 degree heat to The Cracked Egg and back, and still have time for some shopping at the Whole Foods Market on the same strip mall at West Lake Mead Boulevard.

The course was great fun to play, and the blacklight effects were very interesting. The 18th hole (see videos below) was also great, as you played your shot up a ramp, into a hole, where the ball was moved up a tube, then over a small bridge and down a wall of pegs until it dropped into one of a number of different scoring slots!

Great course, nice friendly staff and a good location - well worth a visit.






The course visit was also the location for the first round of the first ever 'Las Vegas Minigolf Desert Classic' tournament that was to be played by me and Emily during out stay in Las Vegas.

The scores for round one:
Richard 'The Low Roller' Gottfried - 48(+12)
Emily 'Snake Eyes' Gottfried - 47(+11)

So Emily carried a one-shot lead into our next stop - at the Pike's Pass Miniature Golf course at the Circus Circus hotel's AdventureDome.

Videos from our visit.

Visit to King Putt Indoor Minigolf in Las Vegas - Intro 1 - 1 of 6


Visit to King Putt Indoor Minigolf in Las Vegas - Intro 2 - 2 of 6


Visit to King Putt Indoor Minigolf in Las Vegas - Intro 3 - 3 of 6


Visit to King Putt Indoor Minigolf in Las Vegas - hole 18 - 4 of 6


Visit to King Putt Indoor Minigolf in Las Vegas - hole 18 - 5 of 6


Visit to King Putt Indoor Minigolf in Las Vegas - post-match - 6 of 6