Minigolf goodies from across the pond

Check out this brilliant selection of minigolf items from our friends at A Couple of Putts.

Many thanks to Tom and Robin at A Couple of Putts for sending over this great minigolf stuff

A BIG minigolf thank you goes out to Tom and Robin at minigolf review site A Couple of Putts for sending over this fine selection of minigolf scorecards, stickers and other stuff.

A Mini Golf is for EVERYONE bumper sticker designed by Tom and Robin

We love seeing and collecting scorecards and other ephemera and merchandise from miniature golf courses around the world. Seeing these items gives a wonderful insight into the game and also showcases the variety of courses and venues out there. Hopefully we'll get to visit some of them in the future too.

A Big Thrill Factory Mini Golf course scorecard from the 18-hole course in Oakdale, Minnesota

A Big Thrill Factory Mini Golf course scorecard. Check out the course review at A Couple of Putts

A Can Can Wonderland mini golf course sticker from the course in St Paul, Minnesota. Read the course review at A Couple of Putts

A coloring book from Goony Golf of Spring Lake Park in Minnesota. Sadly this venue closed down in July 2017. You can read an extensive history of the location at A Couple of Putts

Three Goony Golf of Spring Lake Park scorecards

Goony Golf of Spring Lake Park scorecards

Scorecard for the Championship course at Goony Golf of Spring Lake Park in Minnesota

Scorecard for the Championship course at Goony Golf of Spring Lake Park in Minnesota

Scorecard for the Executive course 1 at Goony Golf of Spring Lake Park in Minnesota

Scorecard for the Executive course 1 at Goony Golf of Spring Lake Park in Minnesota

Scorecard for the Executive course 2 at Goony Golf of Spring Lake Park in Minnesota

Scorecard for the Executive course 2 at Goony Golf of Spring Lake Park in Minnesota

Sticker from Goony Golf of Spring Lake Park

Scorecard for the Mini Golf course at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA). Check out A Couple of Putts for two reviews of the course - including details of the holes they designed and built for the course in 2016 and 2017

Scorecard for the Mini Golf course at the IMA

Scorecard from Pocono Family Golf in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Check out the review at A Couple of Putts

Scorecard from Pocono Family Golf

Scorecard from the Walker Art Center Artist Designed Mini Golf course. Tom and Robin have been involved with this art center and the various incarnations of the minigolf course there for a number of years. Check out the A Couple of Putts website for more info

Scorecard from the Walker Art Center Artist Designed Mini Golf course

Scorecard from the Walker Art Center Artist Designed Mini Golf course

Please do visit the A Couple of Putts website for stacks of course reviews and follow Tom and Robin's adventures on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram.

Related blog posts:
- A Couple of Putts
- Sparkle City Mini Putt in Spartanburg, South Carolina

Adventure Golf at Worldham Golf Club

New Adventure Golf course at Worldham Golf Club in Hampshire.

Many thanks to our friend and minigolf rival Matt Dodd for letting us know there's a new Adventure Golf course at Worldham Golf Club in Hampshire.

Another course for us to add to our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour!

You can find out more about the 12-hole Crazy Golf course on Worldham Golf Club's website.

Hollywood Drive-In Golf in Orlando, Florida

A look at the Hollywood Drive-In Golf courses in Orlando, Florida.

Hollywood Drive-In Golf. Photo by Shelley Barrett

Many thanks to our friend Shelley Barrett for sending us these snaps from her family holiday visit to the two 18-hole Hollywood Drive-In Golf courses in Orlando, Florida. The courses look superb.

Hollywood Drive-In Golf. Photo by Shelley Barrett

Check out the Hollywood Drive-In Golf website for more info.

Disney's Winter Summerland Miniature Golf

Souvenirs from Disney's Winter Summerland Miniature Golf.

Many thanks to our friend Shelley Barrett for sending us a scorecard and pencils as souvenirs from her family holiday to Disney's Winter Summerland Miniature Golf in Orlando, Florida.

Walt Disney World is home to two 18-hole minigolf courses known as Disney's Winter Summerland Miniature Golf.

The scoring and rules side

The story side of the scorecard

Four minigolf pencils from Disney World

Our friends over at The Putting Penguin and A Couple of Putts minigolf review sites have played the courses:
- The Putting Penguin review
- A Couple of Putts review 1 and 2

It's always nice to see a leaderboard at a minigolf course

You can find out more about the Winter Summerland Miniature Golf courses on the Walt Disney World website.

Ghetto Golf in Liverpool

A visit to Ghetto Golf in Liverpool.

In October last year we met up with our friend and old Dodgeball rival 'Rowdy' Russell Fenner in Liverpool and swung by the Ghetto Golf indoor Crazy Golf course at Cains Brewery.

Ghetto Golf in Liverpool became the 847th visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

That's a real fruit machine on the course

I wouldn't fancy looking in this fridge

A pot(ting) shed 

The green 

There's a very BIG minion at the course 

Some Ghostbusters graffiti

Tenpin bowling golf 

The UV section of the course features a number of video-game characters

Space Invaders!

Pac-Man is there too!

We've also been to the Ghetto Golf course in Digbeth, Birmingham. That venue was the 780th course visited on our minigolfing travels.

Link:
- Ghetto Golf

Related blog posts:
- Ghetto Golf
- Liverpool
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

Tandy in Hitchin

Spotting some old Tandy branding in Hitchin.

We were recently back in Hitchin, Hertfordshire and spotted the electronics shop at Churchgate had closed down. Electronic Universe had been trading in the town since 1982 and closed due to retirement last February. The old shop signs had been taken down and luckily for us we were able to see some even older branding from when the shop was a Tandy dealer! A nice blast from the past.

A once familiar sight on UK high streets. Circa 1990

While visiting Hitchin Market back in March 2016 I spotted a great old Tandy sign at the back of the shop at Biggin Lane that brought back happy memories for me.

The Tandy sign round the back of the shop

My first job was at a Tandy franchise shop in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, where I remember selling a number of electronic products bearing the 'RadioShack', 'Genexxa' and 'Realistic' brand names. Halcyon days.

In 2001 Tandy said goodbye to the UK high street as the last of the shops were converted after their acquisition by Carphone Warehouse.

I thought the Tandy brand name was still defunct, but it's not as Tandy lives on as an online retailer of electronic components and kits!

Interestingly the name Tandy comes from one of the founders of a leather goods company called Tandy Leather - a business that later became RadioShack.

There is still a RadioShack trading in the UK. It's in Lytham Saint Annes.

Retro videogame graffiti in Luton

Spotting some retro videogame graffiti at The Mall Luton.

Last weekend we revisited our old hometown of Luton and while walking down George Street it was brilliant to see this retro videogame graffiti at The Mall shopping centre. It certainly brightened up the space.

The mural features a whole host of retro game characters and was created by Demograffix.

 

Related blog posts:
- Luton
- Art

Wildforest Falls Adventure Golf at Hotham Park in Bognor Regis

A look at the Wildforest Falls Adventure Golf course at Hotham Park in Bognor Regis.

A view of the 18-hole Adventure Golf course in Hotham Park. Photo by Matt Dodd

Our friends and minigolf rivals Matt and Helen Dodd were recently in Bognor Regis and swung by the new Wildforest Falls Adventure Golf course at Hotham Park.

Matt said the course was good but tough and had quite a few holes he’d never seen before.

The Wildforest Falls Adventure Golf course was built by the team at HM Adventure Golf. You can find out more about the Wildforest Falls Adventure Golf course on the Tivoli Lifestyle website.

While in the park Matt also had a look at the old Crazy Golf layout which is now a picnic area.

We're yet to play the Wildforest Falls Adventure Golf course. The old minigolf layout at Hotham Park and the Putting course that was formerly on the site were the 273rd and 274th played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour back in October 2011.

Related blog posts:
- Matt Dodd
- Bognor Regis

100% gluten free at The Eltisley in Cambridgeshire

A visit to The Eltisley gastropub near St Neots.

It was brilliant to have a meal out yesterday and such a novelty.

There are only a handful of 100% gluten free places in the UK so it was marvellous to visit The Eltisley for lunch.

They do a cracking Banoffee Pie

The menu is 100% gluten free and safe for Coeliacs, you can find out more on The Eltisley's website.

Update (2021): The Eltisley no longer offers a 100% gluten free menu.