Crazy Golf at Wellholme Park in Brighouse

Playing Crazy Golf at Wellholme Park in Brighouse, Yorkshire.

On Sunday 20th August we reached another milestone on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour as we played our 450th course.

On hole 4

Hole 2 was very tricky

The 9-hole Crazy Golf course at Wellholme Park in Brighouse, Yorkshire was the 762nd course visited overall since September 2006.

Another crazy golf course visited on our minigolfing adventures

Emily on hole 1

We had a fun round on the tricky little layout and in our match-up I picked up the win 19 to Emily's 25.

The slightly uphill 7th hole

The course was well maintained and you get a nice scorecard too. A game was just £2 per player.

Hole 1

Hole 2

The first tunnel was easy(ish), but getting the ball through both tunnels first time would take some effort!

Hole 2's green

Hole 3

The ditch

Hole 4

The bridge - looks like it's themed after the River Calder

The green on hole 4

Hole 5

Hole 5's green

Hole 6

Hole 6

The green on hole 6

Hole 7

Hole 7

A mini-volcano 'middle hill' hole

Tricky

Hole 9 - snaily

A lovely last hole

For more information on the course and Wellholme Park in Brighouse visit the Calderdale Council website.

Emily playing the 8th

We liked the scorecard too. It's nice, big and colourful and contains some interesting rules i.e. a 10-shot limit per hole!

We've seen similar courses to the one at Wellholme Park in Wimbledon, Motspur Park, Wythenshawe and Tonbridge.

Throughout our travels we've found a number of courses to be unplayable for one reason or another. The reason for not playing the 761st course visited was quite strange indeed. More of that in this blog post.

Link:
- Calderdale Council

Related blog post:
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

Videos:
- Crazy Golf at Wellholme Park in Brighouse - introduction
- Crazy Golf at Wellholme Park in Brighouse - Hole 1 - Emily
- Crazy Golf at Wellholme Park in Brighouse - Hole 1 - Richard
- Crazy Golf at Wellholme Park in Brighouse - Hole 3 - Emily
- Crazy Golf at Wellholme Park in Brighouse - Hole 3 - Richard
- Crazy Golf at Wellholme Park in Brighouse - Hole 4 - Emily
- Crazy Golf at Wellholme Park in Brighouse - Hole 4 - Richard
- Crazy Golf at Wellholme Park in Brighouse - Hole 5 - Emily
- Crazy Golf at Wellholme Park in Brighouse - Hole 6 - Emily
- Crazy Golf at Wellholme Park in Brighouse - Hole 6 - Richard
- Crazy Golf at Wellholme Park in Brighouse - Hole 8 - Richard Hole-in-One
- Crazy Golf at Wellholme Park in Brighouse - Hole 9 - Richard

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Crazy Golf course at the Ipswich Maritime Festival

My brother-in-law Rob Harper was at the Ipswich Maritime Festival over the weekend and spotted they had a Crazy Golf course there! Minigolf courses certainly do pop up everywhere!

It looked like an interesting 9-hole layout - hole 7 appears to be Stonehenge!

Always nice to see a windmill on a Crazy Golf course

Not the Orwell Bridge

Related blog posts:
- Ipswich
- Crazy Golf

I love it when a bootleg comes together

While in Leeds at the weekend I spotted The Waste Team's car outside our hotel. Looking on their website I've seen they've got a whole fleet of branded vehicles! Brilliant.

What a gimmick!

Pizzaman - Winner of the European Gluten Free Pizza Championships

My mate Gareth Holmes was recently travelling on a number 21 bus through New Cross and spotted a sign for gluten free pizza! It was quite a specific sign too - proclaiming that the takeaway was the Winner of the European Gluten Free Pizza Championships 2015.

I never knew such a tournament existed!

Pizzaman - Championship winning pizza

Although having had a cursory glance on the Internet I can't find the full results of the competition...

You can find Pizzaman at 207 Lewisham Way, New Cross, London.

760 minigolf courses visited

A round-up from our latest minigolf travels.

It's amazing to think in a month and a half we've gone from 743 minigolf course visits to 760. The sheer variety of the miniature golf courses we've played in that time is amazing too. From courses built in the 1970s to courses that are only a year or so old, we've see a wide-range of different layouts.

Course visit number 753 at Lowther Gardens in Lytham

Since we hit the magic milestone of 750 courses - at Coate Water Country Park in Swindon, Wiltshire - we've been to Lytham on the Fylde coast and London.

Emily Putting at MiniLinks Golf in St Annes on the Sea

On our recent trip to St Annes on the Sea to play in the last Mini Major tournament of the season at MiniLinks Golf we'd noticed that Lowther Park in Lytham was home to a Crazy Golf course - how we'd previously missed it we don't know as we've been going to Blackpool and the surrounding seasides since 2008!

The Crazy Golf course at the end of St Annes Pier

As well as playing the 'new' old Crazy Golf course at Lytham, searching for a Putting course in the same park, having a wander to the Crazy Golf course on the pier and revisiting three courses at MiniLinks (a Par-3 Pitch & Putt, Pennines Putting and Crazy Golf) we also swung by the miniature golf courses at Fairhaven Lakes in Lytham and St Annes, the remnants of the Arnold Palmer Putting Course at Starr Gate, the Adventure Golf course at the Pleasure Beach, Merlin Pirate Adventure Golf on the promenade and the old Crazy Golf course behind The Metropole Hotel on the North Shore. we also took a look at how Gynn Gardens in Blackpool has changed since it is no longer home to a Crazy Golf and Putting courses. Finally we drove passed Stanley Park, home to a Krazy Golf course and a grass Putting layout. It certainly is a bit of a hotspot for minigolf!

The Crazy Golf course at Fairhaven Lakes in Lytham and St Annes

My trip to London saw me tick off visits to six courses, with great visits to play the two indoor courses at Swingers Crazy Golf next to the Gherkin, as well as the four indoor courses at Junkyard Golf on Brick Lane.

Playing at the excellent Swingers Crazy Golf course in London

Full blog posts from our recent Crazy World of Minigolf Tour travels will follow soon.

One of the 36 ludicrous Crazy Golf holes at Junkyard Golf in London

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Bonder and Bort Simpson

I do like a good bootleg. This is anything but!

What a ludicrous piece of street art we spotted in St Annes on the Sea yesterday.

I always though Bender would be taller than Bart

Related blog posts:
- Bootleg
- The Simpsons
- Lytham St Annes

Crazy Golf at Sutton Fields in Sutton Weaver Village

Playing Crazy Golf at Sutton Weaver Village near Runcorn, Cheshire.

Over the years we've played some strange crazy golf courses in weird locations and on Saturday 22nd July we were able to add another oddity to our list as we played a round on the miniature golf course at Sutton Farm Cheshire. The farm is at Sutton Weaver Village near Runcorn, Cheshire.

At the 744th course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

What made the fun experience strange was that the course itself is located at what was once a Golf Driving Range but is now part of the farm and is being used as a dog training centre! Another first for us on our travels.

The course was the 439th we've played

When we arrived we thought the visit was going to be another to add to the 'unplayable' files, or worse the course may have been completely removed. We spotted three of the holes and then, through an archway in the tall hedge spotted other holes. As the course layout looked unlike anything we'd seen before we had to have a game on it. We spoke to the man there, Mike, who told us about the site and that we were welcome to have a game. After grabbing our sticks we jumped on the course for a very fun round of crazy golf.

Being careful not to step on the lane

Over a bump

A dogleg

Through the gap

Through a zig-zag

The course itself is a miniature version of the 'eternit' format of the game. It's obviously seen better days, but was still quite playable.



We even shot some aces during our game! Incredibly I played the flat loop hole better than I have done on any previous occasion - including when I've had to tackle the obstacle in international tournaments!



In our match to contest the Sutton Weaver Village Classic title I picked up the win 20 to 22.



The course was the first we played on a day out which also included visits to the indoor Adventure Golf course at Cheshire Oaks, an abandoned Crazy Golf course at Higher Bebington Recreation Ground near Birkenhead, and Championship Adventure Golf in New Brighton!

Photos of the 9-hole Miniature Golf course at Sutton Farm Cheshire / Sutton Fields in Sutton Weaver Village.

Through the arch to the other 6-holes

Hole1

Hole 1

Hole 2

The flat loop on hole 2

The exit

A view of the green on hole 2

Hole 3

Hole 4

  

Hole 5

Hole 5

The very green green on hole 5

  

Hole 6

Hole 6

Hole 7

Hole 7

Hole 7

Hole 7

Hole 8

Hole 8

Hole 8

Something's missing...

Hole 9

Hole 9

Hole 9

Link:
- Sutton Farm Cheshire

Related blog posts:
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- Cheshire

Videos:
- Crazy Golf at Sutton Weaver 1
- Crazy Golf at Sutton Weaver 2
- Crazy Golf at Sutton Weaver 3
- Crazy Golf at Sutton Weaver 4



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Wasp attack closes minigolf course in Portugal

I love hearing about news and events from around the world of minigolf and as such receive the excellent enewsletter from the team at minigolfe.pt in Portugal.

One news item in the latest update stood out in particular as an attack of wasps ("Ataque de vespas") has temporarily closed a minigolf course at the Jamor Sports Complex!

Unsurprisingly I own a minigolf ball with a wasp on it (unless it's a hornet)

It used to be a bit of a running joke that the only way a British minigolfer WOULDN'T finish last in an international minigolf tournament was if an opponent got 'stang' off of a bee, wasp or hornet. It's not actually a made up story, as a poor Finnish player did have to retire from an event after getting stung, which meant a Brit was bumped up one place above the DNF on the leader-board.

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Lyme Regis Mini Golf Hall of Fame 2017

Details of the Lyme Regis Mini Golf Hall of Fame.

One of our favourite minigolf courses has set-up a Hall of Fame for the 2017 summer season and it's causing a stir with holidaymakers. Mick from the Lyme Regis Mini Golf course at Lister Gardens kindly sent over the photo of the leader-board as it stood yesterday - with the course record of 30 held by Ross Hendey. The next closest score recorded was a 32 by Jake and Mick H.

The Lyme Regis Mini Golf Hall of Fame is getting checked by holidaymakers throughout their stay in the seaside town

The 18-hole minigolf course at Lister Gardens in Lyme Regis was the 365th we played and 601st visited overall on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. We really enjoyed our visit to the course and Lyme Regis as a whole during our south west road-trip in 2015.

Teeing-off on hole 1

It's a nice and unique course, with some brilliant views of the seafront and The Cobb harbour area.

Emily putting at Lister Gardens

In our first game on the course Emily won 36 to 40, dropping only one shot and scoring one hole-in-one for an almost 'perfect par'. As I'd lost I was determined to get a win and so we returned for another round the next day. Luckily I won the round, shooting 38 to Emily's 40.

Visit the Lyme Regis Town Council website for more information, opening times and prices. We received great service from the staff on duty on both of our visits and Emily was very pleased to hear that her score of 36 was good enough to get her name on the Wall of Fame in the kiosk!

Related blog posts:
- Mini Golf in Lyme Regis, Dorset
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- Lyme Regis
- Dorset

Videos:
- Mini Golf in Lyme Regis 1
- Mini Golf in Lyme Regis 2

Link:
- Lyme Regis Town Council Mini Golf web page

New Adventure Golf course at Riverside Golf Centre in Nottingham

There's a new Adventure Golf course being built at Riverside Golf Centre in Nottingham.

My mate and minigolf rival Jam 'Jamdre the Giant' Trubridge has sent me more proof of the East Midlands miniglf revolution as ANOTHER course is opening in Nottinghamshire!

Jam's friend Nick Donovan was recently at Riverside Golf Centre in Nottingham and posted a photo showing work underway to build a new miniature golf course at the venue.

The building work by Mini Golf Poland is underway at Riverside Golf Centre in Nottingham. Photo by Nick Donovan

Emily and I are looking forward to another inland road-trip to visit all the courses in Nottinghamshire. It's crazy how many new minigolf centres are opening up in the area. Jam is in his element living on the doorstep of all these new arrivals!

As well as the new course at Riverside Golf Centre we've got to visit:
- Highfields Park Adventure Golf in Nottingham
- Mr Mulligan's Pirate Golf at Ramsdale Park Golf Centre in Nottingham
- Caddyshack Golf Centre in Mansfield

Our friend Darren Howe and his family recently played the Robin Hood themed Adventure Golf course at Center Parcs Sherwood Forest.

On previous Crazy World of Minigolf Tour adventures in Nottingham we've played at The Lost City Adventure Golf in Nottingham, Doug Fishbone's Leisure Land Golf in Nottingham and Pirate's Landing Adventure Golf at Trent Lock Golf Centre in Long Eaton.

We've also played at minigolf courses in the surrounding area at Coalville, Loughborough and Leicester. As well as in Sheffield and Skellingthorpe on either side of Nottinghamshire. Other courses on our 'to play' list include Paradise Island Adventure Golf in Derby and the Golden Putter Mini Golf course in Rotherham. There are a couple of Crazy Golf courses in parks in Doncaster that we need to check out too.

If you see or hear of any other new minigolf courses in Nottingham, the wider East Midlands region, or indeed anywhere else in the UK do drop us a line or leave a comment on the blog.

Links:
- Riverside Golf Centre
- Mini Golf Poland

Related blog posts:
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
- Nottingham