Viking-themed Adventure Golf planned for Southport Pleasureland

A new Adventure Golf course is planned to open at Southport Pleasureland.

There are plans for a new Adventure Golf course to open at Southport Pleasureland.

The idea of a new course were first proposed last year and that layout was planned to have a dinosaur theme.

The new proposals will see a Viking-themed Adventure Golf course created alongside a Viking pub.

Southport is one of our local seasides and we've played minigolf there a number of times over the years.

We first visited Southport back in 2009. At that time the old Pleasure Land theme park had recently closed down and had been home to a Moroccan-themed Adventure Golf course.

Check out the Southport Pleasureland website for more information.

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Happy Miniature Golf Day 2020

Today is Miniature Golf Day!

Miniature Golf Day is always on the 21st September.

It'll certainly be a crazy Miniature Golf Day this year!

We played the Crazy Golf course at Southport's Botanic Gardens to celebrate the day last year.

How times change!

One of the holes at Southport's Botanic Gardens Crazy Golf course

We also visited The Masters Putting Green at King's Gardens while we were in Southport. The excellent 18-hole course was really really really busy so we didn't have time for a game. Here's a video of me scoring a hole-in-one there on a previous visit.

Dates for your minigolf diary 2021

Each year there are two minigolf days.

• The first of the year is National Miniature Golf Day which is on the second Saturday in May. In 2021 that is Saturday 8th May.
• The second, Miniature Golf Day, is always on the 21st September. In 2021 that will be a Tuesday.

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One week until Miniature Golf Day 2020

There's one week to go until Miniature Golf Day.

Each year there are two minigolf days.

Miniature Golf Day is always on the 21st September. This year it falls on a Monday - a double-whammy of being Miniature Golf Day AND Minigolf Monday!

It'll certainly be a crazy Miniature Golf Day this year!

We played the Crazy Golf course at the Botanic Gardens in Southport to celebrate the day in 2019.

How times change!

We'll likely be Putting at Home this year.

One of the holes at Southport's Botanic Gardens Crazy Golf course

We also visited The Masters Putting Green at King's Gardens while we were over in Southport on Miniature Golf Day last year. The excellent 18-hole course was very busy so we didn't have time for a game. Here's a video of me scoring a hole-in-one on a previous visit to the course.

Dates for your minigolf diary 2021

The first of the year is National Miniature Golf Day which is on the second Saturday in May. In 2021 that is Saturday 8th May.

The second, Miniature Golf Day, is always on the 21st September. In 2021 that will be a Tuesday.

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One month until Miniature Golf Day 2020

There's a month to go until Miniature Golf Day 2020.

Miniature Golf Day is always on the 21st September. This year it falls on a Monday.

It'll certainly be a crazy Miniature Golf Day this year!

Last year we played the Crazy Golf course at Southport's Botanic Gardens to celebrate the day.

How times change!

We'll likely be Putting at Home this year.

One of the holes at Southport's Botanic Gardens Crazy Golf course

We also visited The Masters Putting Green at King's Gardens while we were over in Southport on Miniature Golf Day last year. The excellent 18-hole course was really really really busy so we didn't have time for a game. Here's a video of me scoring a hole-in-one there on a previous visit.

Dates for your minigolf diary 2021

Each year there are two minigolf days.

The first of the year is National Miniature Golf Day which is on the second Saturday in May. In 2021 that is Saturday 8th May.

The second, Miniature Golf Day, is always on the 21st September. In 2021 that will be a Tuesday.

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Old photo of people playing Crazy Golf

An old photo of people playing Crazy Golf (circa 2019).

The Masters Putting Green in Southport

Moroccan Adventure Golf at Pleasure Land in Southport

A look at the old Moroccan Adventure Golf course at Pleasure Land in Southport.

Back in September 2009 we visited Southport for the first time. It was the last Friday of the summer season but Pleasure Land had closed down so we weren't able to play the Moroccan-themed Adventure Golf layout.

It's one of my favourite lost minigolf courses as it had a theme we hadn't seen before and haven't seen since.

  

We returned to Southport Pleasureland when we moved north in 2016. On that trip in October we were please to see the park open and thriving. It had also declared itself the 'Happy Halloween Capital of the UK'. A title it truly deserved.

Unfortunately since our previous visit the Moroccan Adventure Golf course had been removed as the park had received an extensive refurbishment. The area that was once home to the minigolf course had become a pathway.

Late last year the owners of Southport Pleasureland announced that a new year-round Dinosaur Adventure Golf course was planned to open at the theme park. Fingers crossed that will still go ahead.

We're looking forward to returning to Southport when trips to the seaside are once again allowed post-lockdown.

New Adventure Golf for Southport Pleasureland

A new Adventure Golf course is planned to open at Southport Pleasureland.

A new year-round Dinosaur Adventure Golf course is planned to open at Southport Pleasureland

We've really enjoyed our visits to Southport Pleasureland, especially around Halloween.

Southport is one of our local seasides and we've played minigolf there a number of times over the years.

We first visited Southport back in 2009. At that time the old Pleasure Land theme park had recently closed down and therefore we were unable to play the Moroccan Adventure Golf course there.

The old Moroccan Adventure Golf course at Southport Pleasure Land in September 2009

The new Southport Pleasureland is well worth a visit.

Check out the Southport Pleasureland website.

Britain's Smallest Pub - The Lakeside Inn at Southport

Revisiting Britain's Smallest Pub, The Lakeside Inn at Southport.

We finished off our trip to Southport and Miniature Golf Day 2019 in the best way possible by visiting Britain's Smallest Pub, The Lakeside Inn.

The Lakeside Inn measures 22ft by 16ft and lays claim to being Britain's Smallest Pub.

We first visited it in October 2016.

We've also visited the Smallest Pub on the Planet. That's at the Cleethorpes Light Railway in Lincolnshire.

Pitch & Putt miniature golf course in Southport

A look at the Pitch & Putt miniature golf course in Southport.

We had a look at the Pitch & Putt golf course while in Southport on Miniature Golf Day.

Click for a view of the greens from a similar position in 2016

It looked quite different to when we first visited it in October 2016.

I wonder whether the course opened this season, or if it closed earlier in the year than previously as it looked quite overgrown

Only the 'F' remains on the GOLF sign atop the old Public Conveniences next to the course. All the letters were there the last time we visited

Related blog posts:
- Southport
- Pitch and Putt
- Southport Seafront Golf Classic Pitch & Putt course

The Masters Putting Green in Southport

A revisit to The Masters Putting Green in Southport.

Last Saturday we had a wonderful day out in Southport and it was brilliant to see so many people playing The Masters Putting Green at King's Gardens.

The Masters Putting Green in Southport was the 150th course we played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. We've revisited the course in October and November 2016, and January and October 2018.

Playing hole 10

A hole-in-one on hole 9 of The Masters Putting Green in Southport

The course was so busy this time that we didn't have time to queue up to play a round. We did however have a game on the Crazy Golf course at Southport's Botanic Gardens to celebrate Miniature Golf Day.

Al's Diner in Southport

Or is it Popeye's?

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- Popeye
- Southport
- Popeyes Take Away in Blackpool
- Popeye, Bluto and Olive - in Edinburgh

Crazy Golf at Southport's Botanic Gardens

Playing the Crazy Golf course at the Botanic Gardens in Southport.

We played a round on the Crazy Golf course at Southport's Botanic Gardens to celebrate Miniature Golf Day last Saturday.

We'd first visited the course in November 2016 when it became the 717th visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. As it was out of season we didn't get a game on it that time.

The weather was brilliant on Saturday and luckily the course was open so it became the 528th played on our travels.

Hole 1

Hole 2

Hole 3

Hole 4

 

Hole 5

Hole 6

  

Hole 7

Hole 8

Hole 9

In our round on the 9-hole course Emily won with a score of 18 - a perfect par of all twos. I shot a 20, including one hole-in-one. Our friend Cat scored 27.

Emily playing hole 2

Emily playing hole 5

We've now visited 925 courses since September 2006. Five of those have been in Southport.

The Botanic Gardens Crazy Golf course is the sister course to the one in the town's Hesketh Park. We first visited that course in September 2009 and finally played it in October 2016.

We really enjoyed our visit to the Botanic Gardens and the Crazy Golf course. They are worth a visit if you're in town.

Our first minigolf course visit of the year

A revisit to The Masters Crazy Golf course in Southport.

To celebrate the first day of the new year we headed over to Southport, one of our local seasides, for the afternoon. While there we revisited what was originally the 150th course played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - The Masters Crazee Putting course at King's Gardens.

The 17th and 18th holes

We played the course on our first visit to the seaside resort in September 2009 and revisited twice in 2016. Last year raced by and we never made it back to Southport to have a game. Hopefully we'll return for a round or two later this year.

A view of the course in King's Garden's from the pier

It's a great 18-hole minigolf course and also has a lucky last hole - which I won on when we played there. I've still got the free game card.

There's a lot of great signage on the course

You can see more photos of the course in our blog posts from October and November 2016.

It was very rainy on our visit

Fingers crossed for a lot more seaside and crazy golf course visits in 2018.

Related blog posts:
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- Southport