Arnold Palmer Minigolf at Haven Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park

A look at the Arnold Palmer Minigolf Course at the Haven Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park in Norfolk.

Arnold Palmer Minigolf at Haven Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park

A big thanks to our friend, team-mate and minigolf rival Peter Jones for sending over these photos of the Arnold Palmer Minigolf Course at the Haven Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park in Norfolk.

Arnold Palmer Minigolf at Haven Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park

It's one of the few remaining Arnold Palmer Putting Courses in the UK.

Arnold Palmer Minigolf at Haven Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park

While the course has had some new obstacles added and fresh felt it is still easily recognisable as an Arnold Palmer Putting Course and appears to be in excellent condition.

Arnold Palmer Minigolf at Haven Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park

Arnold Palmer Minigolf at Haven Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park

Arnold Palmer Minigolf at Haven Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park

Arnold Palmer Minigolf at Haven Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park

Arnold Palmer Minigolf at Haven Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park

Arnold Palmer Minigolf at Haven Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park

Arnold Palmer Minigolf at Haven Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park

Arnold Palmer Minigolf at Haven Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park

Arnold Palmer Minigolf at Haven Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park

The final hole on the Arnold Palmer Minigolf course at Haven's Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park has a Punch & Judy obstacle

Arnold Palmer Putting Courses

The Arnold Palmer branded miniature golf courses were part of the Arnold Palmer Enterprises empire set-up in 1961 that saw the legendary golfer's name licensed and franchised to a wide-range of activities and products including Dry Cleaning centres and an Arnold Palmer brand foot detergent.

The first Arnold Palmer Putting Course in the UK opened in Coventry in 1965 and was part of an Arnold Palmer Driving Range. A course was also located at a Driving Range in Sheffield.

Only around 16 of the 46 Arnold Palmer Putting Course locations still exist today.

Playing minigolf at Haven holiday parks

Our friends Sophia and Karl Moles played the course while on holiday Haven's Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park in Great Yarmouth back in 2012.

They've also played crazy golf at a few other Haven holiday parks over the year.

Hopefully we'll get to have a game on the course on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour in the future.

Visit the Haven website for more information.

Mini Golf at Haven's Wild Duck Holiday Park in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

A look at the Mini Golf course at Haven's Wild Duck Holiday Park in Belton, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

Our friends Sophia and Karl Moles sent over some photos of the Mini Golf course at Haven's Wild Duck Holiday Park in Belton, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk from their recent holiday there.

Sophia told us they enjoyed a couple of rounds on the course, with the best score from the group being a 25 by Karl. The course record is 24 on the 9-hole layout.

They also visited the course back in the summer of 2019.

Check out the Haven website for more information on the Wild Duck Holiday Park.

Minigolfing Moles

Karl and Sophia have been to quite a few different holiday camps with their family and have sent over minigolf snaps from trips to Haven's Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park, Pontins Pakefield, Allhallows Leisure Holiday Park, Jungle Adventure Golf at Parkdean's Vauxhall Holiday Park in Great Yarmouth, as well as the Crazy Golf course at Suffolk Leisure Park in Ipswich, Minigolf Sport Club Sanremo in Arma, Italy and the miniature golf course on the MSC Opera cruise ship!

Jungle Adventure Golf at Parkdean's Vauxhall Holiday Park in Great Yarmouth

A look at the Jungle Adventure Golf course at the Parkdean Vauxhall Holiday Park in Great Yarmouth.

Our friends Sophia and Karl Moles recently had a short break at the Parkdean Vauxhall Holiday Park in Great Yarmouth and sent us these photos of the Adventure Golf course at the park.

I do like seeing crashed plane theming on a course

A crocodile - or alligator - lurking near the course

Visit the Parkdean website for more information.

What's that croc had for dinner?

The Moles family have found and played a fair few minigolf, crazy golf and adventure golf courses on their travels. Including one on a cruise ship!

It's always brilliant seeing new courses and those we haven't been to on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Crazy Golf at Haven Rockley Park Holiday Park

A look at the Crazy Golf course at the Haven Rockley Park Holiday Park.

Many thanks to our friend Pete Campbell for sending over a snap of the Crazy Golf course from his recent stay at the Haven Rockley Park Holiday Park in Poole, Dorset.

Check out the Haven website for more information.

Crazy Golf at Haven Holiday Parks

You can also find Crazy Golf courses at the following Haven holiday parks: Allhallows, Blue Dolphin, Burnham-on-Sea, Caister-on-Sea, Church Farm, Craig Tara, Doniford Bay, Golden Sands, Kiln Park, Lakeland, Primrose Valley, Quay West, Riviere Sands, Seashore, Weymouth Bay and Wild Duck.

A look at some of the Haven minigolf courses

Our friends Sophia and Karl Moles and their family have stayed at a few Haven parks over the years and have sent us photos of the minigolf courses they've seen:
- Mini Golf at the Haven Wild Duck Holiday Park
- Mini Golf at Allhallows Leisure Holiday Park
- Arnold Palmer Crazy Golf at Haven's Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park

Our friend Gemma Woplin sent us photos of the Thorpe Park Adventure Golf course in Cleethorpes from her stay there in 2017.

Our friends and minigolf rivals Matt and Helen Dodd sent us photos of the Arnold Palmer Crazy Golf course when they stayed at the Haven Golden Sands Caravan Holiday Park in Mablethorpe.

Visiting Craig Tara

The Craig Tara park was formerly Butlin's Ayr. My family stayed there back in the 90's. I'll have to look through our old family albums to see if there are any snaps of us playing Crazy Golf there.

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Minigolf around the world - guest blog posts

It's always brilliant to see and hear about minigolf courses around the world.

Over the years I've published guest blog posts about minigolf courses in 21 countries:

- Bermuda

- Canada

- Faroe Islands

- Finland

- France

Mini Golf in Civray, France by Thomas at Boîte de Timbres, 2019

- Germany

- Greece (Rhodes)

- Guernsey

- Italy

- Latvia

- Netherlands

- North Korea

- Oman

- Portugal

- Slovakia

- South Africa

Putt-Putt course in Three Anchor Bay in Moullie Point Sea Point, Cape Town, South Africa by PJ Goedhals, 2019

- Spain (Lanzarote, Majorca and Tenerife)

- Sweden

- Switzerland

- UK

- USA

Plus on the high seas from Italy, to Montenegro, to Greece on the MSC Opera cruise ship!

Miniature golf course on the MSC Opera by Sophia and Karl Moles, 2019

Combined with our own Crazy World of Minigolf Tour that's a total of 32 countries blogged about on the Ham and Egger Files.

Emily, Christopher and I have been to courses in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and the USA.

Within the British Isles we've been to courses in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Jersey and the Isle of Man.

Do you have a favourite course near you?

If you'd like to guest blog on the site please do get in touch.

Mini Golf on a cruise ship

A look at the miniature golf course on the MSC Opera.

Our friends Sophia and Karl Moles have just returned from a Mediterranean cruise on the MSC Opera and sent us some snaps of the 8-hole minigolf course on the ship.

The MSC Opera sailed from Italy, to Montenegro, to Greece and then back to Italy.

The Moles family have found and played quite a few minigolf, crazy golf and adventure golf courses on their travels.

The MSC Opera

Mini Golf at the Haven Wild Duck Holiday Park

A look at the Mini Golf course at Haven's Wild Duck Holiday Park in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

Many thanks to our friends Karl and Sophia Moles for sending over some snaps of the Mini Golf course they spotted while on holiday at Haven's Wild Duck Holiday Park in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

A view of the course

The rules

A train obstacle - the course was made by DK Fibreglass, I guess this obstacle dates from 1985

A look at the course

Karl and Sophia have been to quite a few different holiday camps with their children Fiorella and Arabella and have sent over minigolf snaps from trips to Haven's Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park, Pontins Pakefield, Allhallows Leisure Holiday Park, as well as the Crazy Golf course at Suffolk Leisure Park in Ipswich and Minigolf Sport Club Sanremo in Arma, Italy.

Links:
- Haven Wild Duck Holiday Park
- DK Fibreglass

Related blog posts:
- Haven
- Great Yarmouth
- Norfolk
- Holiday Camp
- Karl Moles
- Sophia Moles
- Arnold Palmer Crazy Golf at Haven's Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park
- Adventure Golf at Pontins Pakefield
- Mini Golf at Allhallows Leisure Holiday Park
- Crazy Golf at the Haven Golden Sands Caravan Holiday Park in Mablethorpe
- Haven's Thorpe Park Adventure Golf course in Cleethorpes

Crazy Golf at Suffolk Leisure Park in Ipswich

A look at the Crazy Golf course at Suffolk Leisure Park in Ipswich, Suffolk.

Many thanks to our friends Sophia and Karl Moles for sending over some snaps from their recent visit to the Miniature Golf course at Suffolk Leisure Park in Ipswich.

We first visited the Suffolk Leisure Park minigolf course while it was under construction in December 2010. At that point the cups hadn't been cut out yet.

We played the course in May 2011.

Check out the Suffolk Leisure Park and Ski Centre website for more information, opening times and prices.

Related blog posts:
- Ipswich
- Sophia Moles
- Karl Moles
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

Courses visited by the Moles family:
- Adventure Golf at Pontins Pakefield
- Allhallows Leisure Holiday Park in Rochester
- Haven's Caister-on-Sea Holiday Park
- Minigolf Sport Club Sanremo in Arma, Italy

Link:
- Suffolk Leisure Park and Ski Centre

A return to Fantasia Adventure Golf in Felixstowe

Playing another round at Fantasia Adventure Golf in Felixstowe, Suffolk.

In December we returned to East Anglia to visit family and friends and while in Felixstowe  we swung by our most visited course, Fantasia Adventure Golf in Felixstowe. Luckily the weather was really nice and the course was open to play!

My opponents on this occasion would be Karl Moles and his daughter Arabella. Karl, the Suffolk Coastal champion defeated me on the course in our first round way back in May 2011. I'd gained a win back against Karl in our rematch in June 2014 so we were all set for a very competitive round on the 9-hole layout.

Hole 1 at Fantasia Adventure Golf

Karl started with a pair of threes, while I dropped shots picking up a pair of fours - the same scores as the debuting Arabella.

Hole 1 can certainly be a puzzler

We all shot a three on the third hole - Twister - before Karl extended his lead with a hole-in-one on hole 4 - Humpy.

Karl helping Arabella with a shot on hole 2 - or is it the other way round?

Threes followed on the fifth, fours on the sixth and twos for all on the seventh. Amazingly Arabella, with a little help from her mum Sophia, shot a three on the eighth hole, while Karl and I both hit fours.

Arabella with a tricky second shot on hole 2

Holing out for a four on hole 6 - Evil Eye

Threes all round on the ninth hole meant that Karl had won with a round of 26. Arabella (and Sophia) placed second with a 28, while I won the bronze with a score of 29!

The Champ

The Fantasia Adventure Golf course on Sea Road in Felixstowe is well worth a visit and is a tricky little layout. A two is as good as an ace on many of the holes.

We're looking forward to returning once again. Perhaps the challenge series needs to be best-of-five games...

Related blog posts:
- Fantasia Adventure Golf
- Felixstowe
- Karl Moles