The course was a tricky one to play and a lot of the shots needed to be very firm to carry them over some subtle obstacles within the course's concrete construction.
In our Irregular Mini Golf Tour Match-up I defeated Emily by just one shot to take a 23-24 victory.
Speaking with Rob the course owner, he told me that most players score in the thirties so anything under 25 is a good score. He also challenged me to a match-up on our next visit to Clevedon, a match I am looking forward to.
Rob told me the Crazy Golf course has been in place in Salthouse Fields since the 1960's and he runs it along with the Miniature Railway that runs around the park.
Clevedon was a nice little seaside and we would visit again.
Both of the courses are 9-hole layouts, with the Celtic Challenge featuring Celtic-related obstacles, as the name would suggest. While the Kingdom of Legends course features scaled down versions of famous holes from BIG Golf.
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Video: Scoring a Hole-In-One on a Double-Plateau Hole
One of the features of the Celtic Challenge course is the 'sail' yourself rafts that you have to use to navigate parts of the course. Great fun and a first on any minigolf course we've been to.
While we were there I also spotted a little Putting Green, I didn't get a chance to play it though.
With nothing to do today but mow the lawn, I decided to 'build' a Mini Golf Hole in my back garden.
Suggestions welcome for ideas of Crazy Golf Obstacles to add to it?
At the First BBQ of the Season back in March, me, Oliver 'The Machine' Florence & Simon 'Practice' Hall created a Minigolf course using a selection of obstacles from the Crazy Golf Museum archives.
If you're in the Luton and Harpenden areas and are into Dodgeball you may be interested to hear that there is a new Dodgeball Club in Harpenden, as well as the existing Luton Dodgeball Club that meets in Leagrave.
The Harpenden Dodgeball Club meets for training and matches on Thursdays at the Highfield Oval in Harpenden.
The Luton Dodgeball Club meets on a Monday, although after this week's session there will be a summer break and training will begin again in September.
I have now played Dodgeball in four organisations - Dodgeball UK (2005-2007), Get Back Into/UKDBA 2010-2011) and England Dodgeball (2011-), as well as a number of clubs.
My all-time (2005-2011) Dodgeball Win-Loss Record stands at: Played-386, Won-189, Tied-7, Lost-190.
Prior to visiting the new Dinosaur Safari Adventure Golf Course at the A1 Driving Range in Arkley, Hertfordshire (the 262nd course played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour) we headed to the Asda in Watford to meet up with our Minigolf opponents for the day Jon Angel and Cheryl Joseph.
The reason for meeting place?
A Doritos Dip Desperado Challenge!
Jon's company UrbanCrazy (the Great Britain Minigolf Team Sponsor) creates minigolf courses and props, and also designs and builds all sorts of giant games and features. One of which was the Doritos Dip Desperado Challenge which had been touring Asda branches all over the UK.
The object of the game was to see how many giant Dorito Chips you could get in a jar of the new Doritos Dip, with three out of four Chips in the Dip earning you an Esteban Ortega Dip Desperado t-shirt.
Emily managed the feat and won a t-shirt. I failed to get any Chips in the Dip.
Last month while on an On The Buses Event around Elstree & Borehamwood me, Emily and Brad Shepherd spotted the building of a new Adventure Golf course in Arkley, Hertfordshire. Today, a group of us headed there to have a game. It became the 262nd course played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.
The course is an 18-hole 'Dinosaur Safari' Adventure Golf and features a variety of holes, with hills, ramps, plateaus, rocks and water hazards.
There are also a number of Dinosaurs around the course. None of them gave us any problems though.
To enter the course and meet the 'Live Dinosaurs' you have to enter through a Time Travel 'Device'!
A sound piece of advice on this sign!
To mark our visit we held a Minigolf Competition to crown the Arkley Dinosaur Safari Golf Classic Champion.
Four players teed-off in the event with me and Emily teaming up to take on my Minigolf (and BIG Golf) rival Jon 'El Pato' Angel and his partner Cheryl 'Shuffler' Joseph.
In the Individual Event I defeated Jon by one shot, scoring a 41(+5). Emily and Cheryl tied for third place with scores of 49(+13).
In the Doubles Event Emily and I defeated Jon and Cheryl by one-shot - 90 vs. 91.
In the Doubles Matchplay Emily and I won 1-up.
In the Boys Against Girls Match Jon and I won 83-98.
Stevenage Museum in Hertfordshire is currently running an exhibition about British Holiday Camps.
The exhibition, entitled "Morning Campers!" looks at British Holiday Camps through the years and has a number of displays and interactive elements, one of which is Crazy Golf!
The exhibition even has an interactive Mini Golf course to play.
The "Morning Campers!" exhibition at Stevenage Museum runs from the 16th of July until the 3rd of September 2011 and is well worth a visit.
Along with Tim 'Ace Man' Davies, I am a Curator (and 'Janitor') of The Crazy Golf Museum. The aim of The Crazy Golf Museum is to show visitors the history of the game, collections of scorecards, tokens, badges, scorecards, flyers, balls, putters, games etc. and act as the worldwide archive for Miniature Golf and Crazy Golf ephemera.
The 255th course we played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour, and the third of the day on the 15th July was the Crazy Golf course at the Charlton Lakeside Pavilion in Andover, Hampshire.
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