The Hole In Wand Wizard Golf at St Johns Shopping Centre in Leeds

A new minigolf course is under construction at St Johns Shopping Centre in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

The Hole in Wand's new minigolf venue is opening at St Johns Shopping Centre in Leeds on Monday 1st September.

The new indoor crazy golf course will be a 9-hole layout.

You can also find The Hole In Wand miniature golf courses in Blackpool, Chester, York and Seaham.

Find out more.

Check out The Hole in Wand and St Johns Shopping Centre websites for more information.

TGJones in the UK

A look at two new TGJones shops in Leeds.

We saw our first two of the newly branded TGJones shops while in Leeds recently.

The start of July 2025 marked the end of WHSmith on the British high street after 233 years. Following the sale of the business to Hobbycraft owner Modella Capital earlier this year WHSmith shops have been undergoing a rebrand to the new name of TGJones.

A sign at TGJones in Leeds city centre

WHSmith on the high street, and travel stores.

There were around 500 high street WHSmith shops, and another 580 travel stores in the UK. The WHSmith shops at railway stations, service stations and airports etc. are not affected by the rebrand as they were not part of the sale.

Toys R Us at TGJones and WHSmith.

It'll be interesting to see how the sale and rebrand affects the relationship between Toys R Us and the two brands. The relaunched Toys R Us brand can be found in sections of some high street and travel hub WHSmith stores, so I imagine there'll be Toys R Us concessions within both TGJones and WHSmith shops too...

Toys R Us returned to the UK shopping scene in 2022 with an online presence and in 2023 with concessions opening inside some WH Smith shops. There are currently over 90 Toys R Us stores open nationwide.

Find out more.

Visit the WHSmith, TGJones and Toys R Us websites for more information on the brands and their locations.

Related blog posts:

• From WHSmith to TGJones
• WHSmith
• TGJones
• Retail
• Leeds

Crazy Pool at King Pins at the White Rose Shopping Centre in Leeds

A look at the Crazy Pool course at King Pins at the White Rose Shopping Centre in Leeds.

We swung by the new King Pins location at the White Rose Shopping Centre in Leeds while en route to Leeds city centre.

As well as Crazy Pool, King Pins Leeds is home to games including American Pool, Virtual Shooting, Tenpin Bowling, Ice-Free Curling, Duck Pin Bowling, Shuffleboard, Tech Darts, and Karaoke.

We've played Mini Golf at Kings Pins at the Manchester Arndale and the Trafford Palazzo, and Crazy Pool at King Pins' sister brand venues in Manchester (Arndale and Deansgate) and in Leeds city centre (Merrion Street) on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Find out more

Take a look at the King Pins website for more information on the new King Pins venue in Leeds, as well as the other venues in Manchester, Bristol, Glasgow, and Belfast (opening soon).

Video Years in Leeds

Spotting a video shop in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

We spotted a sign for the Video Years video shop while having a wander round Leeds city centre on our recent trip to the city.

Video Years has a niche of being a video shop specialising in skateboard VHS & DVDs! It's also housed within a head shop!

Find out more.

Check out the Video Years website for more information.

Related blog posts:

• VHS
• Retail
• Shops
• Leeds
• Video rental shops in the UK (July 2025)

Adventure Golf now open at Cheshunt Park Golf Course

The new Adventure Golf course at Cheshunt Park Golf Course in Hertfordshire is now open.

The course is the first course from PuttShots Mini Golf.

The PuttShots Mini Golf course at Cheshunt Park Golf Centre is an outdoor 18-hole layout.

Find out more.

Visit the Puttshots and Cheshunt Park Golf Course websites for more information.

Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

The PuttShots Adventure Golf course at Cheshunt Park Golf Course will be a new one for us to check out on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Mini Golf at The Rock Shopping Centre in Bury

There's a pop-up mini golf course at The Rock Shopping Centre in Bury this August.

The Rock Shopping Centre in Bury, Greater Manchester is celebrating its 15th birthday this year, and to mark the occasion the shopping centre has a pop-up funfair set-up with a range of free-to-play games - one of which is mini golf.

Find out more.

Check out The Rock Shopping Centre website and Facebook Page for more information.

One month until Miniature Golf Day 2025

Miniature Golf Day takes place on the 21st September each year.

Playing at The Himalayas on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour in 2012. The course is the world's first miniature golf and home to the St Andrews Ladies' Putting Club

This year Miniature Golf Day is on Sunday 21st September.

Playing Miniature Golf on the Moon at Mr Mulligan's Space Golf in Newcastle on Miniature Golf Day in 2018

Two 'Miniature Golf Days'.

There are two 'miniature golf days' each year.

• National Miniature Golf Day is always on the second Saturday in May.
• The other minigolf day, Miniature Golf Day, is always on the 21st September.

Minigolf courses we've played on Miniature Golf Days in previous years

Miniature Golf Day - a day of many names.

Much like the many different names for 'Miniature Golf' itself, Miniature Golf Day (and its sister appreciation day in May, National Miniature Golf Day) goes by many many many different names!

We've seen the days called:

• Global Mini Golf Day
• Global Miniature Golf Day
• Global Minigolf Day
• International Mini Golf Day
• International Miniature Golf Day
• International Minigolf Day
• Mini Golf Day
• Miniature Golf Day
• Minigolf Day
• National Mini Golf Day
• National Miniature Golf Day
• National Minigolf Day
• World Mini Golf Day
• World Miniature Golf Day
• World Minigolf Day
• Worldwide Mini Golf Day
• Worldwide Miniature Golf Day
• Worldwide Minigolf Day

Whatever you call Miniature Golf Day (or Miniature Golf) it's superb to see the day and game being celebrated worldwide.

Crazy Golf at Southport Botanic Gardens on the 21st September 2019

Related blog posts:

• Miniature Golf Day
• National Miniature Golf Day
• Definitions of Miniature Golf
• 100 names for Miniature Golf
• Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

The Masters Putting Green in Southport - celebrating 60 years in 2025

The Masters Putting Green crazy golf course in Southport, Merseyside is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year.

The Masters Putting Green Crazy Golf course at King's Gardens in Southport in 2016

The 18-hole crazy golf course opened for business back in 1965.

The course on a very busy Miniature Golf Day in 2019

The Masters Putting Green in Southport is of the Arnold Palmer Putting Course variety, and opened under the Arnold Palmer branding in 1965.

Playing The Masters Putting Green at King's Gardens in Southport back in September 2009

Find out more.

You can find out more about The Masters Putting Green on the Southport Crazy Golf website.

The Masters Putting Green in Southport, 23rd November 2016

Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

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, January and October 2018, and September 2019.

September 2009

October 2016

November 2016

A revisit is long overdue!

The Windmill at The Masters Putting Green in Southport, 23rd November 2016

Winning a FREE GAME at The Masters Putting Green Crazy Golf course at King's Gardens in Southport, 4th September 2009

Winning a FREE GAME at The Masters Putting Green Crazy Golf course at King's Gardens in Southport, 4th September 2009

The Masters Putting Green Crazy Golf at King's Gardens in Southport, 1st January 2018

The Masters Putting Green Crazy Golf at King's Gardens in Southport, 1st January 2018

Arnold Palmer Putting Courses.

Arnold Palmer Putting Courses are a design classic and include all the elements that make a Crazy Golf course great – the Windmill, the Waterwheel, an Obelisk, ledges, bunkers, traps, flat loops, hills and plateaus – everything laid out to make a course interesting, testing and most of all fun!

They're my favourite type of minigolf course and I've visited most of those that still remain in the UK.

The Arnold Palmer branded miniature golf courses were part of the Arnold Palmer Enterprises empire set-up in 1961 that saw the legendary golfer's name licensed and franchised to a wide-range of activities and products including Dry Cleaning centres and an Arnold Palmer brand foot detergent.

By 1966 there were 130 Arnold Palmer Putting Courses in the USA, with ten in Japan and some in South Africa.

Southport's Crazy Golf course lays claim to being the first Arnold Palmer Putting Course in the UK (there is also some information that a course in Coventry opened as the first in 1965 and was part of an Arnold Palmer Driving Range in the city). An Arnold Palmer Putting course was also located at a Driving Range in Sheffield.

Take a look at my blog post about "Arnold Palmer Putting Courses in the UK" for further information.

The Hole in Wand Wizard Golf opening in Leeds on the 1st of September

The team at The Hole In Wand Wizard Golf are opening a new indoor minigolf course at St John's Shopping Centre in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

The Hole in Wand's new minigolf venue is opening at St John's Shopping Centre in Leeds on Monday 1st September.

The new indoor crazy golf course will be a 9-hole layout.

You can also find The Hole In Wand miniature golf courses in Blackpool, Chester, York and Seaham.

Find out more.

Check out The Hole in Wand website for more information.

Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

We regularly visit Leeds and it'll be another new course for us to check out on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

A 7-Eleven in Chicago

A look at a gold signed, but closed down, 7-Eleven in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

The closed 7-Eleven at the Heyworth Building on East Madison Street in Chicago

This 7-Eleven had a fancy looking gold sign

Crazy Pool at Cuetopia Stockport in Cale Green

Cuetopia Stockport is now open.

There's a new indoor entertainment venue in Stockport, and it has a Crazy Pool layout.

We spotted the signs for Cuetopia Stockport while walking in the nearby Cale Green area of Stockport today - the venue is home to a Crazy Pool course!

Crazy Pool is a cross between the cue sport of Pool and the putting game of Crazy Golf, with wacky and tricky obstacles placed upon the baize. Rather than using a putter, players use a pool/snooker cue to get the ball passed the obstacles and into the cup/hole/pocket.

Some of the 'Pool', 'Snooker' or 'Billiard' table layouts we've seen in these cue-sport and minigolf crossovers have been quite irregular to say the least.

Cuetopia Stockport is also home to an arcade, pinball, regular pool tables, and a bar. The venue is open Monday to Saturday, with details of the opening times on the Cuetopia Stockport website.

Find out more.

Check out Cuetopia Stockport's website, Facebook Page and Instagram for more information.

Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

The Crazy Pool at Cuetopia Stockport will be a new course for us to visit on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

It's also less than a mile away from us, so is technically our new nearest 'crazy golf' course!

Jungle Monkeyz Adventure Golf in Pinner, London

There's a new adventure golf venue in Pinner, North West London.

Jungle Monkeyz Adventure Golf has opened in Pinner, in the London Borough of Harrow.

Jungle Monkeyz Adventure Golf in Pinner is home to two indoor 9-hole adventure golf courses.

One of the layouts is called Aztec Falls, with the other being the Gorilla Glades.

The new Jungle Monkeyz Adventure Golf courses can be found at the Jungle Monkeyz Adventure Softplay Centre in Pinner.

Find out more.

Visit the Jungle Monkeyz Adventure Golf website for more information.

Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Jungle Monkeyz Adventure Golf in Pinner is a new place for us to check out on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

A Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tube-Man in Chicago

Spotting a pop-up Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tube-Man at the Ace Hardware Fall Convention 2025 in Chicago.

This wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube-man was spotted promoting Pickle Everything Games at the Ace Hardware Fall Convention 2025 in Chicago, Illinois, USA!

Find out more:

• Pickle Everything Games
• Ace Hardware

Golff Bach in Llangefni, Anglesey, Wales

There's a new mini golf course in Llangefni, Anglesey, Wales.

Golff Bach ('Mini Golf' in Welsh) has been created in Llangefni, Anglesey.

The Golff Bach course is an 18-hole outdoor layout located at the Golf Môn golfing complex in Anglesey.

Find out more.

Visit the Golf Môn website for more information on the Golff Bach course.

Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

The new Golff Bach course at Golf Môn will be a new one for us to check out on a Crazy World of Minigolf Tour revisit to the island of Anglesey.

Mini Golf at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster

New mini golf course opening at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster.

There are plans for a new mini golf course to be created at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Branton, Doncaster, South Yorkshire.

Find out more.

Visit the Yorkshire Wildlife Park website for more information.

Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

The new mini golf course at Yorkshire Wildlife Park will be a new one for us to check out on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Interactive Mini Golf at Boom Battle Bar in Reading

The Boom Battle Bar venue in Reading, Berkshire now has interactive mini golf.

An interactive mini golf game from 501 Fun has been installed at Boom Battle Bar in Reading.

Checking the Boom Battle Bar website the indoor minigolf activity is called an "AR-CADE GOLF LANE". That's a new one on us!

Find out more.

Visit the Boom Battle Bar website for more information on the Reading venue.

And visit the 501 Fun website for details of the interactive mini golf set-up.

Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

We're yet to play one of 501 Fun's type of interactive mini golf games on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour, so it's good to note there's one at Boom Battle Bar in Reading. We wonder where else they'll appear...

Crazier Golf and Crazier Nolf at Boom Battle Bars.

We've visited several Boom Battle Bars on our minigolfing adventures (most recently in Ipswich) and a number of them are home to Crazier Golf and Crazier Nolf courses.