Minigolf in Greater Manchester

A look at miniature golf courses in Greater Manchester.

There are a lot of options for minigolfing in Greater Manchester, with a variety of courses to play, ranging from traditional crazy golf to indoor minigolf to new adventure golf layouts.

We've been travelling to play minigolf in Manchester since 2009 when I won the Mini Masters and Mini Open at the Trafford Golf Centre. I also won the Chrizy Golf Masters at Piccadilly Place in 2012. We moved to Stockport in 2016 and have continued to compete in events. Emily is the reigning Paradise Island Adventure Golf Open champion, while I won the tournament in 2018. I also won the DinoFalls Masters at the Trafford Golf Centre last year.

Courses we've visited in Greater Manchester:

Paradise Island Adventure Golf at the Trafford Centre - two 18-hole indoor Adventure Golf courses.

Paradise Island Adventure Golf at the Trafford Centre

Dino Falls Adventure Golf at the Trafford Golf Centre - an 18-hole outdoor Jurassic-themed Adventure Golf course.

Dino Falls Adventure Golf at the Trafford Golf Centre

Junkyard Golf at First Street - three 9-hole indoor Crazy Golf courses.

Junkyard Golf at First Street in Manchester

The Lost Valley Adventure Golf at Amazonia, Market Place Shopping Centre, Bolton - an 18-hole indoor Adventure Golf course.

The Lost Valley Adventure Golf course in Bolton

Haigh Woodland Park, Wigan - an 18-hole outdoor Wigan-themed Adventure Golf course.

Adventure Golf at Haigh Woodland Park in Wigan

Haigh Woodland Park, Wigan - an 18-hole outdoor Crazy Golf course.

Crazy Golf at Haigh Woodland Park in Wigan

Treetop Adventure Golf at The Printworks in Manchester City Centre - two 18-hole indoor Adventure Golf courses.

Treetop Adventure Golf at The Printworks in Manchester City Centre

Roxy Ball Room in Deansgate, Manchester City Centre - an 18-hole indoor Crazy Golf course.

Crazy Golf at Roxy Ball Room on Deansgate

UV Crazy Golf at One Adventure in Droylsden - a 12-hole indoor glow-in-the-dark minigolf course.

UV Crazy Golf at One Adventure in Droylsden

Pitch & Putt at Bruntwood Park in Cheadle, Stockport - an 18-hole miniature golf course. It's also a Foot Golf course.

Pitch and Putt at Bruntwood Park

Heaton Mersey Valley Golf course at Burnage Rugby Club, Stockport - Miniature Golf / Par-3 course with Footgolf.

Heaton Mersey Valley Golf course at Burnage Rugby Club, Stockport

Courses we're yet to visit in Greater Manchester:

- Crazy Golf at Moss Bank Park in Bolton.

New courses in development / under construction:

Dino Falls at Trafford Golf Centre - the second 18-hole Adventure Golf course is currently under construction.

Puttstars at Rochdale Riverside - three minigolf courses will be a part of the new indoor venue when it opens in April 2020.

Derelict / abandoned courses in Greater Manchester:

- Stamford Park, Stamford Street, Stalybridge, Tameside - an outdoor Crazy Golf course.

The abandoned Crazy Golf course in Stalybridge

- Crazy Golf at Wythenshawe Park - a 9-hole outdoor Crazy Golf course.

The abandoned Crazy Golf course at Wythenshawe Park

Other courses in Greater Manchester:

Over the years we've played a number of other minigolf courses in Manchester on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. Some have been portable courses, while others have been temporary or pop-up locations.

There's also a grass Putting course at Park Square in Cheadle Heath, Stockport. This private Putting Green is for use by tenants and employees at the office complex. It's actually our closest course, but one we're not allowed to play.

Former courses in Greater Manchester:

- Miniature Golf at Adswood Park, Cheadle Hulme, Stockport
- Chrizy Golf at Piccadilly Place
- Birdies Pop Up Golf
- Crazy Golf at Heaton Park
- Junkyard Golf pop-up at Piccadilly Place
- Junkyard Golf pop-up at the Great Northern
- Championship Miniature Golf at the Trafford Golf Centre - a 9-hole minigolf course
- Tea Party Mini Golf at Spinningfields, Manchester
- Crazy Golf at Alexandra Park in Edgeley, Stockport

Related blog posts:

- Manchester
- Greater Manchester
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

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New minigolf course opening at Rochdale Riverside

Three indoor minigolf courses to open at Puttstars Rochdale.

The new Rochdale Riverside entertainment, leisure and shopping centre in Rochdale will be home to an indoor minigolf venue called Puttstars.

Puttstars is a new concept from the Hollywood Bowl Group and will feature three 9-hole minigolf courses.

Rochdale Riverside and Puttstars are due to open to the public in April next year.

We're interested to see what the new Puttstars venue looks like.

Links:
- Rochdale Riverside
- Hollywood Bowl Group

Related blog posts:
- Hollywood Bowl
- Greater Manchester

Crazy Golf in Church Stretton

A visit to the Crazy Golf course in Church Stretton, Shropshire.

We travelled through Shropshire on our drive down to South Wales last Friday and after leaving Shrewsbury we stopped off at Church Stretton to visit the Crazy Golf course in the main town park.

There are quite a few activities to do in Church Stretton Park

Here's a full list of games and prices

A nice sign at the course

The 9-hole course was the 913th visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Unfortunately the course was locked up on our visit

It looked like an interesting layout and one we'd liked to have played if it was open.

A view of a couple of holes

It appeared to be a mixture of Eternit miniature golf and Beton concrete styles, types more commonly found in continental Europe.

Hole 1

  

Hole 2

A ditch on hole 2

Hole 3

Holes 4 and 5

Hole 5's green

Hole 6

 

Hole 7

Hole7

 

Hole 8

Hole 8's green

Hole 9

Hole 9 - I bet that concrete block can collect a lot of minigolf balls!

Free Crazy Golf at Affinity Outlet Staffordshire

There's a free to play Crazy Golf course at Affinity Outlet Staffordshire this summer.

A free 6-hole miniature crazy golf course has been set up at Affinity Outlet Staffordshire for the summer.

More information can be found on the Affinity Outlet Staffordshire website.

New Crazy Golf course at Touchwood Shopping Centre in Solihull

There's a new Scrap Yard Golf course at Touchwood Shopping Centre in Solihull.

Touchwood Shopping Centre in Solihull has a 9-hole Crazy Golf course set-up for the summer.

The Crazy Golf course - known as Scrap Yard Golf - has been created as part of Touchwood’s Costa-Del-Solihull summer activities at the shopping centre.

More information can be found on the Touchwood Shopping Centre website.

Summer Mini Golf Checklist 2019

As we're BIG fans of minigolf and the summer we've created a Summer Mini Golf Checklist containing 18 fun minigolf 'things to do' to get as many people playing the great game as possible.

1. Play at five different minigolf courses
2. Score par or better on a course
3. Compete in a miniature golf tournament
4. Score seven holes-in-one
5. Play a game of Pitch & Putt miniature golf
6. Play at a Pirate Adventure Golf course
7. Play a course with a Jungle-theme
8. Play a dinosaur-themed course
9. Play three windmill obstacles
10. Play at a space-themed course
11. Read a book about minigolf
12. Play a portable or pop-up course
13. Play at an indoor course (it doesn't have to be on a rainy day)
14. Play a course on a pier
15. Find and post a minigolf postcard
16. Post about minigolf on social media and use the hashtags #minigolf and #summerminigolf19
17. Play three loop-di-loop obstacles
18. Play minigolf at a garden centre
19th hole – Win a FREE GAME on a Lucky Last Hole!

We hope you enjoy ticking off the activities on the Summer Mini Golf Checklist wherever you are in the world.

The first three people to complete the Summer Mini Golf Checklist 2019 will win a free game with us, either at their local course (if we're in the area), or at one of our local courses (if they're in the area).

Paradise Island Adventure Golf at the Trafford Centre in Manchester

Last Saturday we visited Paradise Island Adventure Golf at the Trafford Centre in Manchester for a couple of games against our friend and minigolf rival Seth 'Clockwork Orange' Thomas.

Having recently won the PIAG Open championship Emily was the one to beat and in the first round, played on the Tiki Hut Trail, Emily took the win with a score of 37. Seth was second with a 39, while I hit a 40.

Emily playing hole 5 of the Tiki Hut Trail Adventure Golf course

Round two took place on the Temple Ruins layout. I scored a round of 35, including seven holes-in-one! Emily was second with a 38, while Seth was one-shot back to finish third.

Seth playing hole 4 of the Tiki Hut Trail Adventure Golf course

Emily and I tied for the win on 75 shots each, with Seth on a combined score of 78.

Emily playing hole 17 of the Temple Ruins Adventure Golf course

Link:
- Paradise Island Adventure Golf

Related blog posts:
- PIAG
- Paradise Island Adventure Golf

Minigolf Rockets

A look at some rocket obstacles from our Crazy Golf travels.

Putting through the rocket at Prestatyn Crazy Golf

My recent blog post about the Crazy Golf course in Ilfracombe included some snaps of one of the most unique rocket obstacles we've seen on a course.

What a ship!

It looked like quite a tricky hole to play

The green in Ilfracombe

It reminded me we'd also see another quirky rocket-ship on the Crazy Golf course at Hesketh Park in Southport.

The rocket-ship in Southport

It looks like it's been on some tough missions!

But the none of the rockets have anything on the one we saw at the Crazy Golf course on Canvey Island in 2009!

The rocket is listing more than it is lifting off!

My favourite rocket obstacle is the nice one on hole 6 at the Crazy Golf course in Prestatyn.

Hole 6 at Prestatyn Crazy Golf

The Original Crazy Golf on South Parade in Skegness is home to a very angular rocket. That hole is also number six.

Probably not the first minigolf rocket obstacle, but it is on a hole on the site of England's first Crazy Golf course

There's a rocket on The Masters Crazy Golf course in Southport too.

A rocket obstacle on the popular Southport Crazy Golf course

We haven't played that many space-themed courses on our travels, mostly because there aren't a lot of them.

Gravitee Golf in Oxford is one of the few space-themed minigolf courses in the UK

Have you seen an interesting rocket obstacle on a miniature golf course? Are they your favourite type of obstacle? Do let us know.

Emily playing the rocket hole on the Arnold Palmer Putting Course in Whitby