Minigolf Course Visit No. 145 - Drift Park, Rhyl

The 25th Minigolf course we visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour visit to Wales was to the 11-hole Crazy Golf course at Drift Park in Rhyl.







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- Wales

Jobbing to Arm Champs - the original Arm Wrestling Arcade Game

While in Towyn I spotted an original Arm Champs arm wrestling arcade game and couldn't resist having a go, despite my previous failures in Great Yarmouth in 2007 and May 2009.

You can see how I got on this time in the video below.

Bowlingo in Towyn

It can never be resisted. A spot of Bowlingo is always a good challenge!

Minigolf Course Visit No. 144 - Knightly's Crazy Golf, Towyn

Mini Golf blog post about our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour visit to Towyn during our tour of Wales in August 2009.




On our way from Llandudno to Rhyl on the penultimate day of our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour visit to Wales we passed through the town of Towyn. At the traffic lights we saw a sign advertising Knightly's Amusements and Fun Park on Sandbank Road and went to have a look.

To our surprise we found that next to the main car park at the bottom of Sandbank Road was a great little 9-hole Crazy Golf course.

As it was so much fun we had two plays on the course. In the first round Emily and I had scored 17(-1) and 18(-2) respectively, and thought we could better the scores with another game.

In round two Emily scored 17(-1) and I scored a 15(-3), but was left to think 'what might have been?' after notching up six holes-in-one and three threes!











Before we went to Towyn we had stopped off at Colwyn Bay's Eirias Park as we had heard there was a Minigolf or Crazy Golf course there. We found it no longer exists.

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- Wales

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Views from the Great Orme Mountain (Y Gogarth)

Minigolf Course Visit No. 143 - Rocky Pines, The Great Orme/Y Gogarth, Llandudno

The second (and better) of the two courses on The Great Orme in Llandudno was the 18-hole Rocky Pines Adventure Golf course, which is next to the Summit Complex.

The wind can be a real factor in your play. The video below shows how windy it was on the day we played.










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Minigolf Course Visit No. 142 - Alpine Adventure, The Great Orme/Y Gogarth, Llandudno

There are two Adventure Golf courses on the Great Orme (Y Gogarth) mountain in Llandudno.

The first one we played was just under half-way up, at the Ski Centre and was a 9-hole 'Alpine Adventure' Minigolf course.




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Two derelict Crazy Golf courses en route to Llandudno (Abergwyngregyn & Llanfairfechan)

After the Anglesey leg of the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour, and before we hit the Great Orme mountain/Llandudno portion of our trek we paid a visit to Abergwyngregyn and Llanfairfechan in search of Mini and Crazy Golf courses to play.

In Abergwyngregyn, at the foot of the Aber Falls, we found the remains of both the Aber Falls Tavern and the Crazy Golf course in the garden.

The Tavern itself looked to be under-going re-development, the course however was under a boat and building materials!





In Llanfairfechan, under the shadow of the Penmaenmawr Mountain we found the last five holes of the Minigolf course that was once in the seafront park.

Minigolf Course Visit No. 141 - Anglesey Sea Zoo, Isle of Anglesey/Ynys Môn

The last Minigolf course to be played on Anglesey was at Anglesey Sea Zoo.

The course was a 9-hole Swedish Felt B-run course that had been very well themed as 'Captain Jack's Crazy Golf / Golff Gwyllt' Pirate course. It became the 141st played on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.