Playing some darts at the White Horse and Bower pub in London.
First off Happy New Year to all.
Quite apt too, considering the PDC’s Ladbrokes World Darts Championship has just finished and this weekend sees the start of the BDO’s Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship.
Arriving at the pub in dribs and drabs we couldn’t instantly see the dart board, but after Emily asked the man behind the bar where it was we were shown it was at the back of the pub behind a screen. As Capital Arrows said, it was in a secluded spot.
If you do head to the White Horse and Bower do take your own darts as the pub issue ones were not a matching set. Ever the mercilessly competitive character Oliver had brang his own darts, while Seth and I hadn’t. Oddly for a Darts meet-up in December Seth had also failed to bring
his Pool Cue! Emily hadn’t brought any darts with her as she was to play the part of Tony Green for the evening.
In the
three-player tournament the first round of qualifying saw all three of us playing in a 301-match. Oliver and his own darts won, meaning Seth and I had to battle it out to meet him in the final.
Seth got the win against me after some dismal efforts at getting the double, setting up a clash with The Machine.
The final saw the players face-off in a best-of-three legs match that was quite the battle. In the end Oliver chalked one up in the win column with a victory over Seth and his new purple dyed hair. A precursor to the colourfully coiffed Peter ‘Snakebite’ Wright’s loss in the PDC World Final perhaps.
A great fun start to the evening that was only marred by the fact that the only working lavatory in the White Horse and Bower pub on our visit was the disabled facility! All the other toilets were out of order!? This was unfortunate on a number of levels as the disabled toilet was right behind the Oche, so our matches were interrupted on a number of occasions by other patrons doing their ablutions.
We Minigolfers love our darts and we’ve played a number of events amongst ourselves both on and off the
BMGA Tour, with outdoor
‘Links Darts’ at the seaside in Hastings and a couple of Christmas tournaments too. Our great Minigolf rival,
Links Darts Champion and friend
Sean ‘The Sandman’ Homer also rocked up to a PDC qualifying event for the UK Open tournament once!
Check out the links below for further details about the great sport of darts.
Links:
.jpg "Love it? Win it! competition at Whole Foods Market in London")
.JPG "Playing the Splash Point Mini Golf course in Worthing")
.JPG "Playing hole 1 of the Strokes Adventure Golf course in Margate")
.JPG "Emily playing the Pirate Cove Adventure Golf course at Bluewater Park in Kent")
.JPG "Playing the 5th hole - The Windmill aka The Turbines of Death - of the 18-hole Arnold Palmer Crazy Golf course in Hastings. The course is the host venue of the World Crazy Golf Championships")
.JPG "Playing the Lost Island Encounter Adventure Golf course at World of Golf Sidcup")
.JPG "Playing the last hole of the 9-hole Mini Golf course at Basingstoke Golf Centre in Hampshire")
.JPG "Richard playing in a League Match at Adventure Island Mini Golf at Star City, Birmingham")
.JPG "Putting in the Brewmaster's Open Tournament at the Camden Town Brewery in London")
.JPG "Richard on the Search for Atlantis indoor Mini Golf course at Castleford's Xscape centre")
.JPG "Richard plays the indoor Adventure Golf course at the Fairworld Amusement Arcade in Cleethorpes")
.JPG "Richard playing the Minigolf course at Alexandra Palace, London")
.JPG "Emily putting at the King Putt indoor Mini Golf in Henderson Las Vegas")
.JPG "Emily at the Golden Isle Indoor Adventure Golf course in Blackpool")
.JPG "Playing the UrbanCrazy Minigolf course at the 2012 London Golf Show")
.JPG "The 2014 3D & Fun-Sports 'All Around Minigolf Calendar'")
.JPG "Mr October (Herr Oktober) in the 3D & Fun-Sports 2014 Minigolf Calendar")