A look at the Pitch & Putt miniature golf course at Marine Gardens in Fleetwood.
Marine Hall Gardens in Fleetwood |
A blog about our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. With a sprinkling of nostalgia and urban exploration for good measure.
Marine Hall Gardens in Fleetwood |
We had a day out at Chester Zoo yesterday. Unfortunately the Conservation Golf course that our friend John Mittler snapped for us in January 2018 is long gone.
Check out the guest blog post from John's visit for more photos.
Out of season |
A green on the Putting Course |
Not a minigolf hole |
But it looked a bit like one |
We had a wander to the cliff |
You get some superb views from the top of the Frog's Mouth Cliff! |
We had a walk round Bruntwood Park in Cheadle on New Year's Day and while there took a look at the Pitch & Putt course.
Rules for the time of Covid |
A view to the 7th tee |
A frosty bunker |
An icy green |
Visit the Bruntwood Park Pitch & Putt website for more information.
The Bruntwood Park Pitch & Putt course was the first place saw social distancing measures in place in person. That was in May last year.
The last course we swung by in 2020 was the grass Putting course at Park Square in Cheadle Heath on the 29th December.
Before the first national lockdown hit and our out-of-home putting was paused we'd visited 948 courses since September 2006.
We had a very strong start to the year and visited 20 courses in the first 20 days of 2020.
We've now been to a total of 956 courses on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.
My brother and Charter Member of the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour has sent over some photos of the Castaway Island Mini Golf course in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
Social distancing measures at the entrance/exit to the course |
The anchor has been there since it was an Arnold Palmer Putting Course |
Castaway Island Mini Golf replaced the 9-hole and 18-hole Arnold Palmer Putting courses on the promenade. We visited in July 2016 and the course became the 693rd on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.
At the Arnold Palmer Putting Course on the site in June 2007 |
How Castaway Island Mini Golf looked in July 2016 |
Christopher and his family have visited 37 courses on their branch of the tour, 26 of those have been unique to them. Emily and I have visited 956 courses on the main tour.
Christopher has been to six courses in 2020. He revisited the indoor adventure golf course at The Windmill Theatre in Great Yarmouth too.
We've been to a total of 46 courses in 2020, with 15 of those being new courses visited. We've swung by eight new courses in the time of coronavirus.
We've got 40 of the original 600 we set out to visit left and a lot of new courses to play at too!
Together we've been to 982 courses since the 30th September 2006.
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We visited Blackpool for the first time this year on the 3rd September. It was really nice to get back to the seaside.
You can see the top of the Blackpool Tower from the sunken gardens crazy golf course |
While there we had a catch-up with Ian and Paul from the Blackpool Fulfilling Lives and Blackpool and the Fylde Street Angels - the two groups that have joined forces to refresh and reopen the Princess Parade Crazy Golf course on Blackpool's North Shore.
It was brilliant to talk to people in real life for a change! |
It's a pleasure to be a part of the Princess Parade Crazy Golf project and I've enjoyed working with the teams at Blackpool Fulfilling Lives and Blackpool & the Fylde Street Angels, Blackpool Council and the Blackpool Civic Trust to get the course reopened.
The area has been given a massive clean up by the project team and a number of the holes have required repairs. You can see how the course looked in May 2019 and October 2019 in my blog post.
How the course looked in May 2019 |
The Princess Parade Crazy Golf course will be opening next year once the refurbishment work is complete and it is safe to do so.
One of the holes under repair |
Photos of the 18-hole Princess Parade Crazy Golf course, September 2020.
Hole 1 |
Hole 2 |
Hole 3 |
Hole 4 |
Hole 5 |
Hole 6 |
Hole 7 |
Hole 8 |
Hole 9 |
Hole 10 |
Hole 11 |
Hole 12 |
Hole 13 |
Hole 14 |
Hole 15 |
Hole 16 |
Hole 17 |
Hole 18 |
We've recently found out that the course has been there since the late 1950s. We've got quite quite a few old postcards showing the course. It's lovely to see the photos of it in its heyday and it'll be brilliant to be down there on a hot, sunny day in the future.
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