Photos from the WMF Nations Cup 2011

You can view the photos Emily and I took on our trip to Stockholm, Sweden in my Flickr set "WMF Nations Cup 2011 - Stockholm, Sweden"

Almost worth a blog post - Well worth a blog post

My fellow minigolf blogger, and BMGA Tour rival (and sometimes minigolf doubles partner) Oliver 'The Machine' Florence has blogged about our pairing in the recent BMGA English Open. You can real all about it here.

Reports, photos and videos to follow from our spell on International Minigolf Duty in Sweden

Over the next week we'll be posting reports, photos and videos from our latest minigolf adventure and five days away in Stockholm, Sweden training and playing for the Great Britain Team in the World Minigolf Sport Federation's 'Nations Cup' International minigolf tournament!

Great Yarmouth Minigolf Course Revisits - 5th June 2011

On Sunday 5th June 2011 Emily and I headed to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk and we're lucky enough to make it there in time to play two of my favourite minigolf courses in the world - the 9 and 18-hole Arnold Palmer Crazy Golf/Putting Courses on the Seafront.

The story wasn't the same on one of our very first Crazy Minigolf Holidays, way back in February 2007, when all of the courses we visited in Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth were closed! This 'Irregular Mini Golf Tour' to the East Anglian coast really was the start of what would evolve to become the huge Crazy World of Minigolf Tour that we have been on for years now!

Thankfully on our return to Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth in June 2007 the courses were open.

Photo: Emily tees-off on the first hole of the 18-hole Arnold Palmer Putting Course

First of all we played the 18-hole course, and a fine example of an Arnold Palmer Putting Course it is too.

We first played the course on the 9th of June 2007 when it became the 22nd course played on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

In our Irregular Mini Golf Tour Match-up...Emily defeated me 37-39.

Review at Miniaturegolfer.com here (2007)

Next we played the excellent 9-hole course.

The course was the 23rd played on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour in June 2007.

In our Irregular Mini Golf Tour Match-up...I defeated Emily 16-21.

Review at Miniaturegolfer.com here (2007)

Amazingly I managed to win a FREE GAME on the Top Hole! A feat I am not renowned for.

After the round on the 9-hole course Emily also managed to win a FREE GAME on the Top Hole - something that has never before happened to us on our many tours!

After playing the Arnold Palmer courses we went for a walk around Great Yarmouth and the next stop was at the Merrivale Model Village, which is now home to a Crazy Golf course. Unfortunately it was closed.

The Pleasure Beach Gardens course was closed for the day too.

The Hollywood Adventure Golf at the Windmill Theatre was also locked up. They have now changed the posters outside (they used to say 'Grazy Golf'!?).



The 18-hole Pirates Cove Adventure Golf course was closed by the time we reached it.

It was originally the 21st course we played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Emily and I are already looking forward to our next trip to Great Yarmouth.

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- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

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Arm Champs II, Turks and Jobbing - a revisit to Great Yarmouth's Best Arcade Machine

On Sunday 5th June 2011 we headed to Great Yarmouth for some minigolf and amusement arcade action, and I couldn't resist a revisit to the arcade that is home to the Arm Champs II Arm Wrestling Game. Bizarrely, a video of me losing (Jobbing) on it in February 2007 is my most viewed YouTube video!? At the time of writing this blog post it has 13,017 views!!!

Links:
- 2007 - Jobbing to Arm Champs II Arcade Machine
- 2009 - Arm Champs II – the rematch
- 2009 - Jobbing to Arm Champs - the original Arm Wrestling Arcade Game - the video in this match has had 1,236 views to date

The original video

Quasar in Great Yarmouth - Biggest in 'Great Britainshire'!?

On our visit to Great Yarmouth on Sunday 5th June 2011 we visited the 'Biggest Quasar in Great Britainshire' (according to the advert playing outside The Mint amusement arcade).

The 30 minute games are £5 each and are played out over a two-level Laser Tag arena. The games start on the hour, and as we had just bumped into fellow Minigolf tourist Peter Jones and I had spent time chatting to him about the Arnold Palmer course in the town, we missed the start of the next game by seven minutes.

As big fans of Laser Tag in all its forms we'll play there on our next visit.

An Unplayed Minigolf Course - Clippesby

Unfortunately we were too late to play the Minigolf course at Clippesby Touring Park in Norfolk on Sunday 5th June 2011.

We'd heard about it from our friends and minigolf rivals Brad Shepherd, Chris Jones and Alan Norman, who were staying at the campsite during the BMGA English Open weekend.

Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

#249 - The Sutton Staithe Hotel, near Stalham, Norfolk - Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

Following the BMGA English Open minigolf tournament on Sunday 5th June 2011, Emily and I headed to find and play the 18-hole Moosey's Miniature Golf course at The Sutton Staithe Hotel, Sutton Staithe, near Stalham, Norfolk.

We'd heard about the course from fellow Minigolf tourists Paul and Owen Johnson, and Hemsby's Lost World Adventure Golf course owner James Gray

The course became the 249th we have played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

In our Irregular Mini Golf Tour Match-up I defeated Emily 55-57.

The final hole we played on the course was particularly crazy! See the video below to find out why...

This hole was very interesting too, as there were loads of 'false' holes too!?

Links:
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- The Sutton Staithe Hotel