New Crazy Golf course opening at Claremont Pier in Lowestoft

Claremont Pier in Lowestoft, Suffolk is home to a new pirate-themed crazy golf course.

A new pirate crazy golf course is opening at Claremont Pier in Lowestoft on Friday 29th March.

The 18-hole indoor crazy golf course will be called Pirates at the Clarement and is planned to open before Easter this year.

Visit the Claremont Pier website for more information.

We've been to Lowestoft several times on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour over the years. It's a nice seaside town and we're looking forward to revisiting.

When it opens, the new course in Lowestoft will become the easternmost crazy golf course in the British Isles.

New Crazy Golf at Claremont Pier in Lowestoft

Claremont Pier in Lowestoft, Suffolk will be home to a new pirate-themed crazy golf course.

A new pirate crazy golf course is planned to open at Claremont Pier in Lowestoft.

The 18-hole indoor crazy golf course will be called Pirates at the Clarement and is planned to open before Easter this year.

Visit the Claremont Pier website for more information.

We've been to Lowestoft several times on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour over the years. It's a nice seaside town and we're looking forward to revisiting.

When it opens, the new course in Lowestoft will become the easternmost crazy golf course in the British Isles.

Pirate Bay Adventure Golf at Bristol Golf Centre

A look at the Pirate Bay Adventure Golf course at Bristol Golf Centre.

Pirate Bay Adventure Golf at Bristol Golf Centre. Photo by Simon Brown, May 2022

Many thanks to our friend and minigolf rival Simon Brown for sending over these photos from his trip to play the Pirate Bay Adventure Golf course at Bristol Golf Centre. It's a course we haven't visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour yet.

Pirate Bay Adventure Golf at Bristol Golf Centre. Photo by Simon Brown, May 2022

Pirate Bay Adventure Golf at Bristol Golf Centre. Photo by Simon Brown, May 2022

Pirate Bay Adventure Golf at Bristol Golf Centre. Photo by Simon Brown, May 2022

Pirate Bay Adventure Golf at Bristol Golf Centre. Photo by Simon Brown, May 2022

Pirate Bay Adventure Golf at Bristol Golf Centre. Photo by Simon Brown, May 2022

Pirate Bay Adventure Golf at Bristol Golf Centre. Photo by Simon Brown, May 2022

Treasure Island Adventure Golf in Southsea

A revisit to Treasure Island Adventure Golf in Southsea, Hampshire.

Emily swung by Treasure Island Adventure Golf in Southsea on the way back from her trip to the Isle of Wight last month.

Some of the Covid-19 signage at the course

Times have certainly changed in the last 15 years!

A closer look at some of the Covid-19 signage and measures in place at the course

We played the Victory Trail course at Treasure Island Adventure Golf on Saturday 30th September 2006. I won a free game by firing the cannon on the lucky last hole and our minigolfing adventures have been rolling ever since!

Check out the Treasure Island Adventure Golf website for more information on the two 9-hole courses, opening times and prices.

New indoor adventure golf in Newquay

There's a new indoor mini golf course in Newquay, Cornwall.

The Pirate's Quest attraction in Newquay has a new addition this year with an indoor glow-in-the-dark minigolf course opening at the end of May.

The pirate-themed adventure golf course is a 12-hole layout.

Further information can be found on the Pirate's Quest website.

It's another new course for us to visit on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour next time we're in the South West.

Pirates Cove Adventure Golf in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight

A look at the Pirates Cove Adventure Golf course in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight.

A big thanks to fellow minigolf fanatic Matt Dodd for these pics of the Pirates Cove Adventure Golf course in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight.

Visit the Shanklin Seafront website for more information, opening times and prices.

Matt and his family have visited hundreds of courses on their crazy golf adventures and it's always great to meet up with them for a game.

The Pirates Cove Adventure Golf course was built on what was once a grass Putting Course.

We visited the Pirates Cove Adventure Golf course but ran out of time to play it on that occasion.

Minigolf course visit 900 - a year ago today

We visited our 900th miniature golf course in the British Isles a year ago today.

The location was the indoor Pirate Adventure Golf course at the New York Thunderbowl tenpin bowling centre in Kettering, Northamptonshire.

We had a brilliant time at the New York Thunderbowl. The 9-hole adventure golf layout was a good challenge and we'd visit again 

Check out the New York Thunderbowl website for more information, opening times and prices for all of the activities at the centre.

Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

When our minigolfing adventures began in 2006 there were 600 miniature golf courses in the UK. We visited our 600th course at Goodrington Sands in Paignton, Devon. There are now well over a thousand places to play the game.

We've been to a total of 956 courses to date. In the last 14 years a number of new courses have come and gone, older courses have been updated or refurbished, while some layouts have been lost forever.

Our 900th course visit, including overseas venues, was at the North Bay Crazy Golf course in Scarborough in the summer of 2019.

We've been to 39 minigolf courses in eleven overseas countries including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and the USA.

Our stop off at the Thunderbowl was en route to visit family and friends in Suffolk. Something we haven't been able to do this year.

Last year we hit 82 courses. This year we've been to 46 courses, including revisits, with 15 of the layouts being new courses to us. During the coronavirus pandemic we've been able to visit eight courses, playing two of them.

We had been on schedule to reach our 1,000th course this year and had a very strong start to 2020, visiting 20 courses in the first 20 days of January!

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Treasure Island Adventure Golf at Wonderland Telford

A look at the Treasure Island Adventure Golf course at Wonderland Telford in Telford Town Park in Shropshire.

We had a look at the Treasure Island Adventure Golf course at the Wonderland Telford theme park in Telford Town Park earlier this month!

We first visited the course on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour while en route to Oswestry on Friday 13th July 2012. It was the 500th course we'd been to and the 300th played!

We really enjoyed our visit to Wonderland Telford and are looking forward to returning in the future.

Visit the Wonderland Telford website for more information.

Dinosaur at Wonderland Telford!

Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

We've visited a total of 956 courses since our adventures began at Treasure Island Adventure Golf in Southsea on the 30th September 2006.

We've been to 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!

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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.

The Treasure Island Adventure Golf course was the 384th played on our travels when we swung by on the 31st July 2015.

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Hastings Adventure Golf - social distancing in numbers

A look at the work of Hastings Adventure Golf in the time of Coronavirus.

The three miniature golf courses at Hastings Adventure Golf reopened with social distancing measures in place in June.

The team at the south coast seaside venue have put together an informative film showing the stats from the work they've been doing.

Check out the Hastings Adventure Golf website for more information.

Hole 4 of the Crazy Golf course at Hastings Adventure Golf, one of my favourite courses

New minigolf course open in Hull

New pirate adventure golf course now open at East Park in Hull.

A new 9-hole pirate-themed crazy adventure golf course has opened at East Park in Hull.

Visit the East Park Pirate Golf Facebook page for more information.

Minigolf courses in Hull

As well as the new crazy adventure golf course at East Park you can play miniature golf at the Pirate Adventure Golf course at One Stop Golf and at the Putt Club indoor crazy golf course at TeamSport.

A Lost City Adventure Golf venue is also being built at St Stephen's shopping centre.

Hull has been on our to visit list for a few years and we look forward to heading there and playing the minigolf courses on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour in the future.

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Captain Jack's Adventure Golf in Scarborough

New Adventure Golf course now open in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.

Captain Jack's Adventure Golf is now open next to the observation wheel in Scarborough's South Bay.

Visit Captain Jack's Adventure Golf website for more information.

The new Adventure Golf course is located where the Futurist Theatre once stood.

On our travels we see minigolf courses everywhere - even where there aren't any. Last June I took this photo of the empty plot of land and we thought it'd be an ideal location for a course.

Captain Jack's Adventure Golf course landed on this spot

Minigolf in Scarborough

Last summer we revisited Scarborough and had a brilliant long weekend playing minigolf on the seaside resort's courses.

The North Bay Crazy Golf course was the 900th course we've visited overall and the 861st in the British Isles.

Scarborough's two bays have got a lot of choice for fans of minigolf, with a nice mix of Crazy Golf, Putting Greens, Pitch & Putt and Adventure Golf.

We're looking forward to returning on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour in the future.

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Jolly Rodger Crazy Golf at Wonderland Telford

A look back at our visit to the Treasure Island Adventure Golf course at Wonderland Telford.

We visited the 500th course on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour while en route to Oswestry on Friday 13th July 2012.

It was memorable for a number of reasons. As well as being a landmark course visit we clearly remember how bad the weather was on that day. It was tipping it down! We were the only people brave (foolish) enough to play the course. It was also one of the most unique layouts we've played as each of the holes had a different playing surface. Some were concrete, others had felt, others were wooden and some were a mixture!

Watering Hole was an incredibly appropriate name for this hole!

The obstacle and shape of this hole reminded us of some Swedish Felt Mini Golf courses. Except it had metal rails and a concrete base!

That's a huge obstacle in the way!

Pitching my putt

You wouldn't want to over hit your shot into the end of this hole 

The Treasure Island Adventure Golf course at Wonderland Telford became the 300th course we managed to play on our travels.

Emily won our minigolf match-up on the 9-hole course with a score of 29 to my round of 30.

On board the wooden Pirate Ship hole

Emily playing hole 1

Quite the follow-through on my shot

We've now been to 949 courses since September 2006.

About to walk the plank

Check out the Wonderland Telford website for more information.

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Social distancing at Hastings Adventure Golf

The three miniature golf courses at Hastings Adventure Golf have reopened with social distancing measures in place.

Visit the Hastings Adventure Golf website for more information.

We've played at Hastings Adventure Golf a lot over the years and look forward to having a few more rounds there in the future.

The World Crazy Golf Championships were due to take place at Hastings Adventure Golf earlier this month. This was me playing hole 2 in front of a crowd at the 2014 World Championships

The 18-hole Crazy Golf course at Hastings Adventure Golf in East Sussex turned 45 years old this year, having opened on Saturday 21st March 1975.

Hole 7 of the Crazy Golf course at Hastings Adventure Golf. One of my all-time favourite courses

Happy Mount Park in Morecambe is 93 years old

Happy 93rd birthday to Happy Mount Park in Morecambe, Lancashire.

Happy Mount Park opened on this day in 1927.

The 16-hole Pirate Adventure Golf course there became the 891st course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour a year ago.

Back in April 2012 the old Crazy Golf course on the same spot was the 455th visited. The Putting Course was the 456th.

The park is also home to a miniature railway.

Pirate Mini Golf at the centre:MK in Milton Keynes

Playing the pop-up Pirate Mini Golf course at the centre:MK. Six years ago today.

On Sunday 1st June 2014 we headed over to Milton Keynes to make the 560th course visit on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

The 12-hole Pirate Mini Golf course became the 336th played since 2006.

The course was of the 'Eternit' type of Miniature Golf - with the addition of felt to the playing surface and a few non-standard hole types and obstacles.

The pirate-theming around the site was very well done and the striking blue of the felt on the course made a nice contrast with the green felt flooring surrounding it.