Happy International Tea Day

Today is International Tea Day.

Hole 1 of Putters Adventure Golf at Superbowl Warrington is 'tea cup'-themed. Albeit of the fairground ride variety.

There's a fun Crazy Golf course at Rylstone Tea Gardens on the Isle of Wight.

Our local minigolf course when we lived in Luton was at Tea Green Golf at Wandon End.

We played the Crazy Golf course at Selfridges a lot in 2012 as part of the Big Rooftop Tea & Golf Party. I won two tournaments, including the grand final, up there.

The last cup of tea I drank was a nice one down in Weymouth during a break in the 2011 Weymouth Open minigolf tournament.

Crazy World of Minigolf Tour on ITV News

Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour has hit the headlines with ITV's regional news programmes!

Emily and I had a great time filming the feature with reporter Lauren Hall last week. We played the 9-hole Mini Golf course at Tea Green Golf in Wandon End, Luton and were interviewed about our travels and the crazy challenge. Check out the video on the ITV Meridian News website at "Crazy golf fan is playing every course in Britain."

There's a new obstacle on hole 6 at the Tea Green Mini Golf course

Since the feature was filmed we've reached #669 courses visited.

Links:
- Crazy golf fan is playing every course in Britain on ITV Meridian News
- Tea Green Golf

Related Blog posts:
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- Mini Golf at Tea Green Golf at Wandon End, Luton
- Tea Green

Like the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour on Facebook, check out our YouTube channel and follow me and Emily on Twitter.

Mini Golf on BBC Three Counties Radio

Playing some Crazy Golf with the BBC Three Counties Radio Sports Team at Tea Green Golf in Luton.

Check out the Minigolf video from when the BBC Three Counties Radio Sport team of Geoff Doyle and Luke Ashmead met me at Tea Green Golf in Luton to find out more about the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.



My interview and the Mini Golf Challenge on BBC Three Counties Radio will now be broadcast next week (Monday 13th July). You'll be able to listen in from 6pm on the BBC Three Counties Radio Sports show website.

Links:
- BBC Three Counties Radio website
- BBC Three Counties Radio Sports Show
- Tea Green Golf website
- Geoff Doyle on Twitter
- Luke Ashmead on Twitter
- BBC Three Counties Radio on Twitter
- BBC Three Counties Radio on Facebook
- BBC Three Counties Radio on YouTube

Related blog posts:
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- Tea Green Golf
- Crazy Golf on BBC Three Counties Radio

Crazy Golf on BBC Three Counties Radio

Tune into the Three Counties Sport show on BBC Three Counties Radio this Monday.

I had a great time talking about Crazy Golf and playing some Mini Golf with Geoff Doyle and Luke Ashmead from the BBC Three Counties Radio Sports show at Tea Green Golf in Luton today.

The Crazy Golfers ready for the BBC Three Counties Sport Challenge at Tea Green. From l-r Lester Coles, Geoff Doyle, Luke Ashmead and me

As part of the pair's regular sporting battles and forays into a wide-range of sports we had some matches on Tea Green Golf's recently refurbished miniature golf course.

Tea Green Golf's Mini Golf course

We also discussed the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour and Emily and I hitting the landmark of 600 courses visited.

As well as some practice and training we had a doubles match and I refereed the showdown between the duo.

You can hear the show at 6pm on Monday 6th July and it'll be on the BBC Three Counties Radio website shortly after broadcast too. The video will be on their YouTube Channel on Monday.

In the meantime have a listen to last Monday's show. From the 16 minutes 20 seconds mark you can hear a bit about Crazy Golf.

It was great fun and as always it's nice to visit Tea Green Golf. There were some brilliant, and not so good, shots played and the results of the matches will follow...

I do enjoy listening to, and playing, Crazy Golf on the radio!

Check out my blog post about the upgraded Tea Green Mini Golf course too.

The first hole Tea Green Golf's miniature course

Links:
- BBC Three Counties Radio website
- BBC Three Counties Radio Sports Show
- Tea Green Golf website
- Geoff Doyle on Twitter
- Luke Ashmead on Twitter
- BBC Three Counties Radio on Twitter
- BBC Three Counties Radio on Facebook
- BBC Three Counties Radio on YouTube

Related blog posts:
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- Tea Green Golf

Mini Golf at Tea Green Golf at Wandon End, Luton

A visit to the new Mini Golf course at Tea Green Golf Club in Wandon End, Luton.

The old Crazy Golf has been upgraded to this bright new Mini Golf 

Tea Green Golf Club in Luton has unveiled its upgraded Mini Golf layout and on Friday I headed up there for a few rounds on the course.

Playing hole 1. The 'classic' ace line has been blocked by two obstacles. There is still a way to get a hole-in-one though. You can see the old version of hole 1 here

Emily and I have been visiting Tea Green Golf since we found out that the club was home to a Crazy Golf course in July 2009. The course was the 111th played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. Since that first visit almost six years ago the courses has undergone some changes.

Revisiting the 111th course on our tour

Using the base holes as a foundation for the new miniature golf layout the 9-hole course has been refurbished and freshened up with new borders, obstacles and colours. I'm very pleased to say that the course manager Lester Coles and the team have taken on-board some of my suggestions for updating the course. There are now some nice undulations on the course, bright colours, high quality felt to play on, and of course there's a windmill on one of the holes.

Hole 5 has a windmill obstacle on it. It blocks the straight shot to the hole, but there is a fine angle to make the ace

Lester has also been a minigolf rival of mine since we first played the course in 2011 so he was itching to give me a game - and what a clash it was. Having set the record of 17(-1) on the first official day of the new course Lester bested me in the first two rounds (18 to 19), before we tied on 17. We then played another 18-hole round which saw me force a play-off with an ace at the last hole. The game continued to the 4th extra-hole before I was robbed by a bounce out from my second putt.

A view of the course from the turnaround point. Hole 7 (the blue hole in the photo) used to be hole 9

Over the years we've had many rounds on the course and scored a lot of holes-in-one. Lester and I were both amazed at how tricky it is to ace many of the holes during the round - we did however make some nice shots in some practice play. It'll be very interesting to see if the old course record of 14 (held forevermore by Scott Holmes) will ever be equalled or bettered...

The cost to play the course is just £2 and gives you unlimited play on your visit. Great value

Check out the photos of the 9-hole course below.

Tea Green Golf is a really friendly golf club that welcomes members and non-members alike. The Par-3 Golf course is a great test and they also have a really popular Footgolf course. Plus there's a bar, restaurant and games area (pool and darts). Visit the Tea Green Golf website, and check out the club on Facebook and Twitter for more information.

Links:
- Tea Green Golf
- UrbanCrazy

Related blog posts:
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- Tea Green
- Luton

Videos:
- A round of Minigolf at Tea Green Golf Course in Luton (July 2009)
- Attempting to play Crazy Golf in the snow at Tea Green Golf, Luton (January 2010)
- Hole in One at Tea Green Golf's Minigolf Course (March 2010)
- A round of Minigolf at Tea Green Golf Luton (May 2010)
- A round of Minigolf at Tea Green Golf for the Putter King Scavenger Hunt (September 2011)
- Minigolf Trick Shot - Blindfolded Hole-in-One for the Putter King Miniature Golf Scavenger Hunt (September 2011)

FootGolf is heading to Luton!

Tea Green Golf Club to launch new FootGolf course in Spring 2014.

My local golf club, Tea Green Golf at Wandon End, near Luton, is branching out and will soon be a FootGolf venue!

The sport of FootGolf is played on a golf course, with player's aiming to get the football into the hole in as few shots as possible.

Tea Green is always a good spot to visit and I enjoy my 'friendly' rounds of Mini Golf at the club against Lester and Scott, so I'm looking forward to giving the new game a go too.

As well as the brand new FootGolf course Tea Green Golf is home to a great 9-hole Par-3 Golf course, a driving range, 9-hole Minigolf course, practice Putting Green, a clubhouse and bar serving food throughout the week and a range of social events throughout the year.

I first heard about FootGolf last September while I was playing Crazy Golf at the 9-hole course at Stonham Barns in Suffolk.

Links:

- Tea Green Golf

- UK Footgolf Association

- Tea Green-related Blog Posts

Mini Golf at Tea Green Golf Club near Luton

A visit to Tea Green Golf Club for a bit of Minigolf and some Driving Practice.

Last Sunday Emily and I headed up to Tea Green Golf Club at Wandon End near Luton to check out the new Golf Driving Range and have a game of Mini Golf. We haven't been up there in quite a while so it was nice to have a quick Putt around on the 9-hole Mini Golf and hit a bucket of balls on the Driving Range.

Emily having a go on the upgraded Driving Range at Tea Green Golf Club

In our Minigolf match-up - for the Coffee Mug in the Hedge 'Cup' at Tea Green - Emily defeated me 17 to 19, shooting a hat-trick of holes-in-one on holes 3, 4 and 5!

The coffee mug in the hedge at Tea Green

Richard playing a shot on hole four of Tea Green's Mini Golf course

It was a bit too cold to play much more, but I am determined to have a few rounds on the 9-hole Golf course at Tea Green this spring and summer.

Links:

- Tea Green-related Blog Posts

- Tea Green Golf Club

Snow Crazy Golf at Tea Green Golf, Luton

Attempting to play Minigolf on a snowed under Crazy Golf course.


We headed up to Tea Green Golf near Luton this afternoon to hit the driving range and attempt to play the 9-hole Minigolf course (despite the heavy snow and ice covering the course).

Video: Attempting to play Crazy Golf in the snow at Tea Green Golf, Luton.


After getting a 5 on hole one and a 3 on hole four (bypassing holes 2 & 3) the round was abandoned due to the adverse weather conditions - it was impossible to play and I was some way off beating the course record of 13(-5), needing 5 shots in seven holes. It was great fun putting through the snow and ice, and attempting to find the actual holes!?




The Putting Course


The BIG Golf Putting Area

The Driving Range

Looking forward to another round or two soon, hopefully in better conditions!

Links:
- Tea Green Golf website
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour