From the archives...Crazy Golf and Minigolf in Blackpool - April 2008

After our visit to Blackpool for this year's Pleasure Beach Open tournament, I had a look through the archives of the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour and dug out the photos of the course visits we made when we travelled up for the 2008 Pleasure Beach Open last April.

Back then we visited and played five of the courses in Blackpool and Lytham St Anne's (below).

44 Blackpool (Pleasure Beach) - Adventure Golf (New)





45 Blackpool (Starr Gate) - Minigolf (Arnold Palmer)



46 Blackpool (Pleasure Beach) - Adventure Golf (Old 'Alpine Golf')






47 Blackpool (Stanley Park) - Crazy Golf




48 Lytham St Anne’s - Crazy Golf




The Blackpool Gazette has also mentioned my Crazy World of Minigolf Tour in a story about the many minigolf courses in Blackpool called "Pirate thrill for tee".

This year we were less lucky on the course visit side, but a lot better in the competition side.

How is that a three course meal?

Sign spotted in Blackpool - how does a Pizza usefully illustrate a three course meal!?

Perhaps it was a Trompone!

Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - Closed course in Blackpool (2) - Metropole Hotel

The second of the closed miniature golf courses we visited in Blackpool was the Crazy Golf on the North Shore next to the Metropole Hotel.





Related blog posts:
- Minigolf, Crazy Golf and Adventure Golf Courses in and around Blackpool
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - Courses Visited List

Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - Closed course in Blackpool (1) - Gynn Gardens

On our visit to Blackpool this year we also visited two other Crazy Golf courses, that were unfortunately closed (for the season).

The first of these was the course in the very nice setting of Gynn Gardens.

The 18-hole Putting course was also closed (and quite waterlogged too).


Related blog posts:
- Minigolf, Crazy Golf and Adventure Golf Courses in and around Blackpool
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - Courses Visited List

Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - Demolished course in Cleveley's

There now stands a skate park in Jubilee Gardens in Cleveleys, Lancashire, where there once was a Crazy Golf Course.

Minigolf Course Visit No. 152 - Fleetwood Crazy Golf

When we arrived in Fleetwood on a very wet and windy Saturday morning it didn't look like the Crazy Golf course at Marine Hall Gardens would be opening.






But, after we took a stroll along the beach and as we were just heading back to the car, resigned to the fact that we wouldn't be getting to play the course, we spotted that the course would be open.



And so the 12-hole Crazy Golf course at Fleetwood, Lancashire became Minigolf Course Visit Number 152.

It's quite a good course, however the final hole had an almost impossible obstacle to get through. I took a five and so ruined an otherwise perfect round that was headed for a score of Par.

Related blog posts:
- List of courses visited and played on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- Minigolf, Crazy Golf and Adventure Golf Courses in and around Blackpool
- Unplayed Minigolf Courses on our Roadtrip to Scotland & Back

The Pirate Flyer - Laser game monorail at Coral Island in Blackpool

While competing in minigolf tournaments around the country, and visiting Mini and Crazy Golf courses on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour, I do enjoy passing the time in Amusement Arcades playing games such as Hillbilly Shooting Shacks, Bowlingo, Arms Champs, the penny falls, and Crazy Air Squash.


However, of all these games the best 'Amusement Arcade Sport' I have found to date is The Pirate Flyer - a Laser game monorail ride at Coral Island in Blackpool!

It's great fun!

Link:
- Coral Island Amusement Arcade in Blackpool

Minigolf Course Visit No. 151 - Blackpool, Golden Isle Indoor Adventure Golf

Mini Golf blog post about playing the Golden Isle indoor Adventure Golf course in Blackpool as part of the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour in 2009.

The 151st Minigolf course played, and the first stop on the next leg of the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour, was at the Pirate-themed Golden Isle Indoor Adventure Golf in Blackpool.

We played the course just before the Illuminations were switched on, and as a precurser to the following days Blackpool Pleasure Beach Open tournament at the Pleasure Beach I beat Emily, and fellow BMGA'er John Moore in a 12-hole match.








Related blog posts:
- Minigolf, Crazy Golf and Adventure Golf Courses in and around Blackpool
- Indoor Mini, Crazy and Adventure Golf courses
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - Courses Visited List