A revisit to Adventure Island Mini Golf in Southend on Sea.
On Saturday 25th June we swung by Adventure Island Mini Golf in Southend. It's had a few updates since we first played the Aztec and Inca courses there. Not least the addition of dinosaurs!
The courses were actually the very first Emily and I ever played on together! That was way back in 2003.
A visit to the Tee Party Crazy Golf at The Club House in Manchester.
I was recently in Manchester and headed along to the Spinningfields area of the city to check out the minigolf course that had been set up there.
Unfortunately the course had closed the day before so I couldn't play it.
Luckily the holes were still there so I had an interesting evening wander hunting out each of the holes that were spread out around the shopping and dining area.
A visit to Mr Mulligan's latest Adventure Golf course.
You can't miss the entrance to the Lost World Golf!
Last year we heard about a new minigolf venue opening in Stevenage and Mr Mulligan's latest course - Lost World Golf - opened at Stevenage Leisure Park earlier this year.
Mr Mulligan's Lost World Golf gets the thumbs up from the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
We've been itching to get along for a game and earlier this week we had a round on the two nautical themed courses. We loved it.
Our crew of adventure golfers in Stevenage
The courses became the 685th and 686th visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour, and were the 403rd and 404th played.
A view of the Jungle course
The 16th hole in the Jungle
Our group hit the Jungle Explorers course for round one and followed this with a game on the Ocean Adventurers layout.
Emily on the 15th about to putt to the ground floor green
There is some excellent theming throughout the indoor Adventure Golf venue - not least the giant wooden submarine that sits in the middle of the two courses!
Local competitor Simon Hinton and the wooden submarine
What an obstacle/hole/feature!
The inside of the submarine contains a very very tough hole to play!
There's a real mix of obstacles and hole types and there's even a section of holes where you are plunged into blacklight - one of my favourite types of minigolf environments to play in.
The blacklight area on the Ocean Adventurers course
A glow in the dark octopus
Meeting Mr Mulligan
Emily putting under the sea
As we're super competitive players we made sure we kept score and the results of our contest are below - it was very close indeed!
Round 1 - Jungle Explorers Championship
1st - Simon 'Local Athlete' Hinton - 45
2nd (tied) - Cat 'Helter Skelter' Patterson - 46
2nd (tied) - 'Squire' Richard Gottfried - 46
4th - Emily 'Lemony' Gottfried - 51
5th - Simon 'Practice' Hall - 52
6th - 'First Game' Salimeh - 71
Round 2 - Ocean Adventurers Championship
1st - 'Squire' Richard Gottfried - 47
2nd - Emily 'Lemony' Gottfried - 51
3rd - Simon 'Local Athlete' Hinton - 52
4th - Cat 'Helter Skelter' Patterson - 56
On our day trip to Southend on Sea we revisited the 18-hole Arnold Palmer Mini Golf course on the Esplanade.
The signage at the course has been updated
The course was originally the 16th played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour back in March 2007. We've returned a number of times since then and it's always interesting to see the changes made to the course.
Emily in action
On our first visit the remnants of the West course could still be seen. It looks like this now.
There used to be another Arnold Palmer Putting course on this spot
The East course has been refurbished since our last visit and it plays very nicely indeed.
The rules
It's always nice to see a high quality scorecard
During our visit we played the Southend Arnold Palmer Classic competition where I picked up my second win of the day, with Chris Jones runner-up for a second time too. Gareth Holmes was third in the 12-player contest.
The competitors
Results of the Southend Arnold Palmer Classic competition 2016:
1st ‘Squire’ Richard Gottfried – 39
2nd Chris ‘Stretch’ Jones – 41
3rd Gareth ‘Lemsip’ Holmes – 42
4th Brad ‘The Fist’ Shepherd – 43
5th (tied) Lionel ‘The Spoon’ Bender – 44
5th (tied) Alan ‘Stormin’ Norman – 44
7th Emily ‘Lemony’ Gottfried – 46
8th Steve ‘F1’ Gow – 47
9th Cat ‘Helter Skelter’ Patterson – 62
10th Lhurlyn Holmes – 65
11th Taji ‘Not Seth’ Rafferty – 69
12th Paul ‘Flip Flops’ O’Connor – 72
I’m a Champion Miniature Golfer on a tour of the UK’s minigolf and crazy golf courses. Coeliac living a gluten free life. Train nerd. Retro gamer. Urban explorer.
