Wroxham Barns – Shooting Gallery

Another Shooting Gallery, another Hillbilly Theme! Great fun, but watch out for ‘Little Spitting Bull’!

Air Hockey – Minigolf Professionals

In a battle of the titans BMGA British Number 14 Steve Gow took on BMGA British Number 15 Richard Gottfried at the noble sport of Air Hockey at Wroxham Barns on 2nd August.

The outcome – a 4-4 draw!

Wroxham Barns Tournament – a new course record

At the launch of the new 18-Hole Adventure Golf Course at Wroxham Barns in Norfolk, Richard Gottfried set a new course record of 34 strokes (-2) while playing in the Wroxham Barns Strokeplay Tournament.

Wroxham Barns Strokeplay Tournament, 02.08.08
Rank/Player/Score
1. Richard Gottfried – 34*
2. Steve Gow – 43
3. Keith Kellard – 43
4. Emily Gottfried – 44
* New Course Record

In the day’s second tournament, the Wroxham Barns Invitational Tournament, Richard achieved 5th place with a round of 44 (+8), while Emily scored 47 (+11) for 6th place.

Wroxham Barns Invitational Tournament, 02.08.08
Rank/Player/Score
1. Keith Kellard – 35
2. Steve Gow – 37
2. Jon Angel – 37
4. Chris Harding – 41
5. Richard Gottfried – 44
6. Emily Gottfried – 47
7. Lionel Bender – 48
8. Madeleine Bender – 54

Course Skellington

Spotted lurking in Captain Hook's Adventure Golf in Ryde.

Putting Interrupted

While playing a round on the Putting Green in Southsea we were treated to an awesome display by the Red Arrows.

Not a Minigolf course in Southsea, but it looked like it

Spotted on Southsea Seafront.

No Enrty!?

Spotted at Portsmouth's Ferry Port.

One of them is right though!

Great Britain's 15th Best Minigolfer

It's Official!

Jungle Adventure Golf Courses...

...always seem to feature crashed planes!

This one in Shanklin is by far the scariest!

Rylstone Gardens Scoreboard

We all scored 'Very Good'

Easy to find course!

If visiting the Isle of Wight there are no excuses for not finding the Rylstone Tea Gardens Crazy Golf Course!

Photos from the Isle of Wight Minigolf Tour

Shanklin's Beton Crazy Golf Course


Shanklin's Jungle Adventure Golf Course


The Rylstone Tea Gardens Crazy Golf Course - 50 years old and still going strong!


Captain Hook's Adventure Golf in Ryde

Two weeks in a row!

For the second week running the Ham & Eggers Sports and Social Club team won the George II Pub Quiz.

This week we beat 5 other teams, with a total of 31 points out of 50.

67 courses visited and played so far!

Since 30th September 2006 I have played a total of 67 ‘Minigolf’ courses!

These have included Minigolf, Miniature Golf, Crazy Golf, Adventure Golf, Putting Greens, Eternit, Beton, Swedish Felt and a Pitch & Putt or two.

Shooting Shacks – Hayling Island

After a fruitless search in Portsmouth, Southsea, Shanklin, Sandown and Ryde on the Isle of Wight two Shooting Shacks were found in Hayling Island’s Funland.

They were:

The Hillbilly Shooting Gallery




And The Spooky Shoot (which seems to be a Japanese Import!)

Hayling Island Scarecrow Festival

Following the completion of the Minigolf Tour of Hampshire & the Isle of Wight we explored the excellent Seaside resort of Hayling Island which was holding a Scarecrow Festival.

In our Scarecrow searching, in-between rides at Funland, Crazy Golf, Stone Skipping and Steam Train Riding, we managed to spot 30 of the potential 246 that have been created and listed in the Scarecrow Trail Sheet.

The Hayling Island Scarecrow Festival is running from 26th July to 9th August.

See www.haylingscarecrows.co.uk for more information.

Overseas Minigolf Tours

Setting off to Hayling Island or the Isle of Wight? Then don’t forget:
- Your passport
- Duty Free Allowance
- To check if your mobile phone will work
- Travel Insurance
- To check local times
- A phrase book

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Invitational Tournament 2008

Three days…
Five towns…
Two (Three?) Islands…
Nine courses…
125 holes…

…The Hampshire & Isle of Wight Invitational Tournament 2008!

New Adventure Golf Course at Wroxham Barns, Norfolk

Minigolfers Richard & Emily Gottfried have been invited to the launch of a brand new 18 hole Adventure Golf course at Wroxham Barns, Norfolk.

According to the organizers lots of exciting things will be going on, including a challenge match between the reigning World Crazy Golf Champion, Chris Harding, and a top local golfer!

The course has been built by UrbanCrazy, sponsors of the Great Britain Minigolf Sport Team.

More details on Wroxham Barns can be found here:
www.wroxhambarns.co.uk

Full details of the event and photos of the course are to follow.

New Minigolf League!

The first 36 hole Minigolf course in the UK, at Birmingham’s Star City Leisure Complex, is due to start a League night in August, starting with a singles Invitational tournament in early August.

More details can be found here:
www.adventureminigolf.co.uk