New Adventure Golf course in Redcar

A new penguin-themed adventure golf course is opening in Redcar, Teesside.

The 18-hole layout is opening in the Coatham area of the seaside town.

It'll be another new course for us to visit on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Happy World Penguin Day

Today is World Penguin Day.

This obstacle is at the Surfside Amusements at Pensarn Beach in Abergele, Wales.

In September 2017 the Surfside Crazy Golf course at Pensarn Beach in Abergele became the 463rd played and 782nd visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

To mark the day why not check out The Putting Penguin minigolf course review website.

Penguin Awareness Day

Today is Penguin Awareness Day.

A penguin on the Surfside Crazy Golf course at Pensarn Beach in Abergele, Wales

Are you aware of the Putting Penguin minigolf review website?

Pat, Mandy & Putt of the Putting Penguin team and guest contributors have reviewed 345 courses on the site since 2001.

A Penguin on the Sea Dwellers Crazy Golf course in Chapel St Leonards in Lincolnshire

Penguin Awareness Day is an annual event. Today's edition falls on a Minigolf Monday.

Pat of the Putting Penguin team and I started our quest to get our favourite game trending with the creation of #MinigolfMonday back in 2010.

We played against Pat at Putt in the Park in 2015

Penguin Park at a Mini-Golf course on an old Newquay postcard

Finding another great scene on an old minigolf postcard.

I'm always on the look out for old minigolf postcards and I found a cracker at an antiques fair in Stockport today for just 25p.

No sign of the Mini-Golf course on this card, except on the caption

The Harvey Barton Viewcard shows the Penguin Park at the Mini-Golf Course, Newquay, Cornwall and was sent from Newquay on the 27 July 1970.

We played the course - now called Gilmore's Golf - during our two-week holiday around the coast of South West England back in 2015.

Gilmore's Golf in Newquay was the 639th course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

There was no sign of the Penguin Park when we were there, however the course itself is largely unchanged from its original construction in the 1960's.

If you look at the right of the card you can see a man in a striped jumper paying for his round. This same man appears in the postcard below. The hole the ladies are playing and the one to the left of it can be seen in the photo we took when we visited the course in 2015

Gilmore's Crazy Golf course as it looked in the summer of 2015. Not much has changed since it was built in the 1960's. The course is something of a rarity on these shores as it's of the Beton / Concrete variety more commonly found in continental Europe

If you look closely you can see the ladies in the purple jackets from the other postcard in the middle of this card

I'm sure the old postcard will be of interest to our friends over at The Putting Penguin minigolf review site.

Related blog posts:
- Newquay
- Postcards
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- Mini Golf in the South West of England