15 years ago today

A look back at the 10th course played on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

We visited the 10th course on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour on this day in 2006. On a bitterly cold 23rd December 2006 Emily, Christopher and I headed along to the Horse and Harrow Pub in West Hagbourne, Oxfordshire to have a game on their beer garden Crazy Golf course.

And what a course it was - we'd not seen anything like it before. And we haven't seen anything quite like it since!

Crazy Golf at the Horse and Harrow Pub in West Hagbourne, Oxfordshire - December 2006

We revisited the course in April 2011 and while it was a bit drier, it was still a very mossy layout.

Crazy Golf at the Horse and Harrow Pub in West Hagbourne, Oxfordshire - April 2011

Little did we know back then that our interest in crazy golf would become an obsession and that we'd visit 982 courses in the last 15 years.

Together with Christopher and his family we've now been to a grand total of 1,017 courses since we all picked up a putter on the 30th September 2006.

Crazy Golf at the Horse & Harrow Pub in West Hagbourne, Oxfordshire

Thirteen years ago today we visited the 10th course on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

On a bitterly cold 23rd December 2006 Emily, Christopher and I headed along to the Horse & Harrow Pub in West Hagbourne, Oxfordshire to have a game on the beer garden Crazy Golf course there.

In all the years and hundreds upon hundreds of courses we've seen since, none have been anything quite like the 9-hole course.

Crazy

Back in 2006 we never realised how BIG our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour would become. To date we've visited 942 courses!

We popped back to the pub for a look at the course in April 2011.

How the course looked five years later

Looking online it doesn't look like the course is in the pub's beer garden anymore.

Ten years ago today

A look back at the 10th course played on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Ten years ago today we visited the 10th course on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. On a bitterly cold 23rd December 2006 Emily, Christopher and I headed along to the Horse and Harrow Pub in West Hagbourne, Oxfordshire to have a game on their beer garden Crazy Golf course.

Emily putting away as Christopher thinks 'What on Earth are we doing?'

What a course it was - we'd not seen anything like it before. And we haven't seen anything quite like it since!

One of the Crazy Golf holes in the Horse and Harrow pub beer garden on the 23rd December 2006

We revisited the course in April 2011.

The course in April 2011

A long minigolf hole

The green that Emily was putting on in the photo above

Back in 2006 we never realised quite how BIG the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour would become. To date we've visited 720 courses!

Y indeed!

I'm not sure if the Crazy Golf course is still at the pub. There's no mention of it on the pub's website and the last Google Street View image of the location is from April 2011 too. We'll have to swing by next time we're in the Abingdon / Didcot area...

Related blog posts:
- Crazy Golf at the Horse & Harrow Pub in West Hagbourne
- Crazy Golf at the Horse & Harrow Pub in West Hagbourne revisit
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

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Crazy Golf at The Horse & Harrow Pub in West Hagbourne, Oxfordshire - April 2011

On our trip to Oxfordshire last weekend we made a revisit to the Horse & Harrow Pub in the village of West Hagbourne. We originally visited the Pub and its 9-hole Crazy Golf course on the 23rd December 2006 when the course became the 10th course visited on what would become our epic Crazy World of Minigolf Tour!

The weather on this visit in April 2011 was far better than the very cold and wet winters day all those years ago!

We didn't play the Crazy Golf course on this particular visit, but instead had a Pool match, which I won 2-1.

For other course visits check out the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour List.

The Village of West Hagbourne had also got into the spirit of the week, with St George's Day & Royal Wedding celebrations including St George (with the face of Prince William!) and a few Dragons around the village!

Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - Course Played #10 West Hagbourne, Oxon (Horse & Harrow Pub) - Crazy Golf

On the 23rd December 2006 (four years ago today!) we visited and played the 10th course on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - at the Horse & Harrow Pub in West Hagbourne, Oxfordshire.

The course was quite crazy, as it was home-made and in the back garden of a pub! From what we remember, it was also very very cold on that particular Christmas Eve 'Eve'!!!

On the 29th December 2006 we visited and played course number 11 - also at a pub! This time in Bedfordshire (see below).

Other Pub crazy golf courses we've visited/played include:
#11 The Green Man Pub, Stanford, Bedfordshire - Crazy Golf
#110 Tudor Rose Inn, Fordingbridge - Miniature Golf
#168 Sudbury, Suffolk (Maldon Grey Pub) - Crazy Golf
#223 overall visit - Melbourn, Cambridgeshire (The Dolphin Pub) - Crazy Golf
#34 not played - Abergwyngregyn, Aber Falls Tavern - Crazy Golf
#62 not played - Wendens Ambo (The Bell Pub) - Mini Golf
- Crazy Golf at The Horse & Harrow Pub in West Hagbourne, Oxfordshire - April 2011

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