In our Irregular Mini Golf Tour Match-up...I defeated Emily 21-25.
Fairworld Amusements was also home to The Labyrinths of Doralia Laser Tag game. However, we were unable to play as the game requires at least four players for it to be financially viable for the Amusement Arcade to run.
In total we visited ten seasides, 40 minigolf courses (playing 24 of them), umpteen amusement arcades, a fair few Hill Billy Shooting Shacks and one Laser Quest!
The first stop on our 460 mile roadtrip was to Daisy Made Ice Cream in Skellingthorpe, Lincs! The centre had a 12-hole farm-themed Crazy Golf course, which was very good to play indeed. They also had a Drive-Thru Ice Cream Parlour!
The course is a B-Type of Swedish Felt Minigolf and was in great condition. The staff at Daisy Made Ice Cream were very friendly and we had a great round, despite the rainy weather conditions (the only poor weather on the whole trip).
In our Irregular Mini Golf Tour Match-up...I beat Emily 24(par) to 30(+6).
This 'feat' was achieved on the 9-hole Crazy Golf course at Bainland Country Park, near Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire.
Video evidence of the 'achievement'.
The layout of the holes on the course 'greens' was a first for us on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. Instead of one hole, they had five cups to shoot into!? Without a scorecard/instructions to explain the course specific rules, Emily and I played a round, scoring normally with one stroke scored for each shot to get the ball into a hole, and then also totalling up the scores on points (each cup had a point score ranging from 1-5) - with the lowest score winning. On both counts Emily was victorious in the Irregular Mini Golf Tour contests. We have played this fibreglass type of Crazy Golf many times on our tours before, in fact there is a version of this course in Luton's Wardown Park.
The five cups on the green of the Crazy Golf course at Bainland Country Park in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire
The aim in any round of competition minigolf is to score as many holes-in-one as possible, with Par for each hole regarded as two shots. Many courses have their own Par system, with some holes being a Par-3, 4 or 5.
European WMF standardised Miniature Golf (Eternit) courses enable players to score perfect rounds of 18(-18) as there is an 'Ace Line' on each hole. The minigolf website Minigolfnews.com holds records of such achievements and states that almost 300 players have achieved perfect rounds of 18 on Eternit Miniature Golf! In the UK our Crazy Golf, Minigolf, Putting and Adventure Golf courses do not allow for such low scores due to the design and build of the course.
My best competition score on an 18-hole Eternit Miniature Golf course came in 2008 when I competed for Great Britain in the WMF Nations Cup in Tampere, Finland. I scored a 39(+3) in the fourth of my four rounds on the surface in the competition. Such is the rarity of these courses in the UK that these are the only four full competition rounds I have ever played on Eternit! The UK is home to some Eternit-type Miniature Golf courses, but many have had felt added, or are in very poor condition due to their fragile nature.
As a well travelled minigolfer the Putter King website in Japan recently interviewed me for their series of interviews with Minigolfers from around the world (following on from former US Open Champion Brad Lebo).
