Emily Gottfried - Minigolf Player Profile

Miniature Golf Player Profile for Emily Gottfried

Nickname(s)
Lemony
Coach
M

Putter
Fun-Sports

Laterality
Right-handed

Favourite Minigolf Balls
Noppel 1 (3D)
Nations Cup 2008 (3D)

British Minigolf Association (BMGA) Membership

Member 2016, 2017

BMGA Tour Pro 2011-2015
Full member 2008-2010

Minigolf Club Membership

2020 - present - Filwood Fantastic Mini Golf Club
2014-present - Cambridgeshire & Essex Minigolf Club (CEMGC)
2011-2014 - Cambridgeshire Mini Golf Club (CMGC)
2007-2011 - Midlands Minigolf Club (MMGC)

BMGA Tour Debut
2007 - Virgin Money World Crazy Golf Championships

Top Tournament Results

Winner - Paradise Island Adventure Golf Open Championships 2019
1st - CEMGC Invitational Tournament 2014
1st - Holiday on the Buses Crazy Golf Championship 2014
1st - Category 3 BMGA British Masters 2014
1st - WMF World Adventure Golf Masters Women's Championship 2013
1st - WMF World Adventure Golf Masters Women's Championship 2011
1st - Category 3 BMGA British Masters 2013
Winner - Category 3 Aces Championship BMGA Star City Open 2014

Runner-up - Category 3 BMGA British Crazy Golf Open 2013

Runner-up - Planet Hastings Crazy Golf Club Open 2012
Runner-up - The Putt Park Annual Mini-Golf Tournament (Las Vegas) - 2011
Runner-up (w/ Chris Smith) - Weymouth Open Team Tournament - 2011
Runner-up - Manchester Miniature Open 2009

Runner-up (w/ Ruth Burke & Christian Urbano) BMGA Oswestry Games Pro-Am Minigolf Classic 2012
3rd - Surrey Invitational Tournament 2014 & 2016
3rd - National Miniature Golf Day Tournament 2016
3rd (w/ Cambridgeshire & Essex Mini Golf Club) - BMGA British Club Championships 2015
3rd - Category 2 BMGA English Open 2014
3rd - BMGA British Women's Minigolf Championships 2014
3rd - BMGA British Matchplay Championships 2013
3rd (tied) - Crazy Golf with Bompas & Parr Championship August Playoff - Final - 2012
3rd (w/ Brad Shepherd) - Lost World Classic 2010

3rd - BMGA British Women's Minigolf Championships 2009

3rd - BMGA British Women's Minigolf Championships 2008

4th (w/ B. Shepherd, R. Gottfried & J. Trubridge) - Caddyshackers Open 2019
4th (w/ Cambridgeshire Mini Golf Club) - BMGA British Club Championships 2012
4th (with Cindy Kukielka) - BMGA British Doubles Championships 2010

6th - Planet Hastings Crazy Golf Club Open 2011
7th - Midlands Open 2011
7th - Midlands Invitational Tournament 2009

7th - Blackpool Pleasure Beach Open 2009

7th - Blackpool Pleasure Beach Open 2008

8th - London Open 2009
9th - BMGA English Open 2014

Emily and The Gommery Trophy at the 2014 World Crazy Golf Championships in Hastings

International Tournaments

Putt18 4 Nations Cup 2020

Winner - 'The Gommery' Aces Title at the World Crazy Golf Championships 2014 & 2015
34th - World Crazy Golf Championships 2015
26th (tied) - World Crazy Golf Championships 2014
4th - Castle Golf Women's World Crazy Golf Championships 2013
51st - Castle Golf World Crazy Golf Championships 2013
1st - WMF World Adventure Golf Masters Women's Championship 2013
5th - Great Britain Team at the WMF World Adventure Golf Masters 2013
27th - WMF World Adventure Golf Masters 2013
2nd - WMF World Adventure Golf Masters Women's Championship 2012
4th - Great Britain Team at the WMF World Adventure Golf Masters 2012
17th - WMF World Adventure Golf Masters 2012
5th - Castle Golf Women's World Crazy Golf Championships 2011
51st - Castle Golf World Crazy Golf Championships 2011
1st - WMF World Adventure Golf Masters Women's Championship 2011
24th WMF World Adventure Golf Masters 2011

10th - Great Britain Player at the WMF Nations Cup (Female Category), Stockholm, Sweden 2011
10th - Great Britain Team at the WMF Nations Cup, Stockholm, Sweden 2011
45th - Great Britain Player at the WMF Nations Cup, Stockholm, Sweden 2011
5th - Castle Golf Women's World Crazy Golf Championships 2009

45th - Castle Golf World Crazy Golf Championships 2009

3rd - Castle Golf Women's World Crazy Golf Championships 2008

43rd - Castle Golf World Crazy Golf Championships 2008

53rd - Great Britain Player at the WMF Nations Cup, Tampere, Finland 2008

13th - Great Britain Team at the WMF Nations Cup, Tampere, Finland 2008

6th - Virgin Money Women's World Crazy Golf Championships 2007

54th - Virgin Money World Crazy Golf Championships 2007

National Records
2011 - British Women's Record on Eternit Miniature Golf - 24(-12)

Course Records (Current)

None

Course Records (Previous)

2008 Blackpool Pleasure Beach Adventure Golf (12-holes) - 27(+3)

Highest BMGA Rankings (as at End of Season)

BMGA Strokeplay Order of Merit Rankings - 29th - 2014
BMGA Season Only Rankings - 21st - 2014

BMGA Season Only Rankings - 29th - 2008

BMGA Order of Merit Rankings - 38th - 2008/09

BMGA Strokeplay Order of Merit Rankings - 41st - 2012

BMGA Matchplay Order of Merit Rankings - 41st - 2012

Castle Golf World Crazy Golf Rankings

October 2010 - 55th

October 2009 - 50th
June 2009 - 82nd

WMF World Minigolf Women's Rankings (General Class)
March 2016 - 102nd
December 2015 - 98th
March 2015 - 110th
December 2014 - 107th
March 2014 - 120th
December 2013 - 114th
March 2013 - 130th
November 2012 - 113th
March 2012 - 101st
November 2011 - 132nd
March 2011 - Unranked
November 2010 - 138th

March 2010 - 109th
November 2009 - 130th
March 2009 - 100th
November 2008 - 115th

Sports and Minigolf Awards
Named 'The nation's 'craziest' putting couple' w/ Richard Gottfried by Today's Golfer magazine, March 2021

Named 'UK's Biggest Adventure Golf Enthusiasts' w/ Richard Gottfried by ITV Granada Reports, 2017
Named 'Britain's Barmiest Golfers' w/ Richard Gottfried by Today's Golfer magazine, November 2016
3rd place - Oswestry Games Oslympics Open Quiz - 2012

Emily Gottfried in a Play-off at the Miniature Open in Manchester in 2009

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New minigolf and tenpin bowling centre in Bristol

There are plans for a new minigolf and tenpin bowling centre in Bristol's harbourside.

Bristol could soon be home to a new indoor minigolf and tenpin bowling centre with a venue proposed for the harbourside area.

If plans are submitted and approved the venue will become home to ten tenpin bowling lanes and three minigolf courses.

It'll be the latest in a number of venues combining bowling and minigolf and tapping into the rise in competitive socialising.

Related blog posts:
- Bristol
- New minigolf courses

Plonk Crazy Golf at Camden Market

I visited Camden Market while down in London earlier this week and noticed there was some work being done at the Plonk Crazy Golf course in the Stables Market.

I wonder what changes are being made...?

Check out the Plonk Golf website for more information.

Crazy World of Minigolf Tour update - January and February 2020

A look at our minigolf travels so far in 2020.

With two months of the year gone by, warmer weather will - hopefully - be on its way soon.

That means even more opportunities to play minigolf.

Already this year we've played minigolf at That Funky Golf Place at Becketts Farm in Wythall, Birmingham, had multiple rounds on Paradise Island Adventure Golf's two courses at the Trafford Centre in Manchester, Crazy Golf at Sunnybank Gardens & The Yorkshire Ice Cream Farm in Hatfield, Doncaster and the Club Golf pop-up crazy golf course at Coal Drops Yard in London.

The Club Golf pop-up crazy golf course at Coal Drops Yard in King's Cross, London was the most recent course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

We've visited the Putting course at Park Square in Cheadle Heath, Junkyard Golf's three courses at the Westgate shopping centre in Oxford, the Putting course and Crazy Golf at Vickersway Park in Northwich, the minigolf course at Elmfield Park in Doncaster, the minigolf layout at Hexthorpe Flatts Park in Doncaster, the Search for Atlantis and Curse of the Mummy in 4D Cosmic Golf courses at Xplore in the Xscape Centre in Castleford, the two Volcano Falls indoor Adventure Golf courses at the Xscape Centre in Castleford, the two Mr Mulligans Pirate Golf courses at the Junction 32 Outlet Village in Castleford, Peterborough Minigolf at Dobbies Garden Centre, the mini golf and adventure golf courses at Priory Golf & Activity Centre in Wimblington, Plonk Golf at Camden Market and the Crazy Golf course on the Clarence Way Estate in Camden, London.

At our 944th course visit - the Crazy Golf course at Hexthorpe Flatts Park in Hexthorpe, Doncaster

We're looking forward to the spring and summer so we can get out and play even more courses.

• Courses visited in 2020 - 24
• New courses visited in 2020 - 7
• Courses played in 2020 - 5
• New courses played in 2020 - 3

We've also heard about a lot of new courses opening this year in places including Crawley, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Harrow in London, Hull (two venues), King's Cross in London, Leeds (two venues), Maidenhead, Milton Keynes, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northampton, Norwich, Pembrey, Reading, Rochdale, Scarborough, Walsall and York.

Where are you looking forward to playing minigolf this year?

Last year we visited 82 miniature golf layouts. Of those we were able to play at 36 courses.

We've now been to 948 courses since September 2006.

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Clarence Way Crazy Golf in Camden

Revisiting the Crazy Golf course on the Clarence Way Estate in Camden, London.

I was down in London for the day earlier this week and while having a wander round Camden I swung by the Clarence Way Estate to have a look at the Crazy Golf course there.

We first visited the course was back in October 2009. Emily worked close to it nearby Kentish Town until 2016 but we only ever played the course once - in 2012 - and only saw one other group playing the course - in 2011.

You can see what the course looked like in better weather conditions last April in my last blog post about the layout.

Snowy minigolf

Is there any snow where you are?

The Eternit Miniature Golf course at Solna Bangolfklubb in Sweden

There's none in Stockport - we seem to have missed it so far.

Thankfully there are now plenty of indoor courses to get your minigolf fix while you wait for some sunny weather.

When our travels began in 2006 there were only two indoor minigolf courses in the UK. There are now around 100 indoor miniature golf courses.

In February 2018 we visited Sweden and managed to visit nine minigolf courses in 42 hours. A lot of those were covered in snow.

Bangolf Vasaparken in Vasastan, Stockholm

At Goflbaren Aspudden

Golfbaren Kristineberg

The NIFO Steel Minigolf course at Solna Bangolfklubb

Playing on 'ice' at the Sports World Mini Golf course at O'Leary's in the Mall of Scandinavia in Solna, Sweden

In the warm at Swing by Golfbaren in Stockholm, Sweden

Happy National Retro Day

Today is National Retro Day.

What's your favourite throwback, retro or vintage thing?

I'm still a big fan of the 80's and 90's - the era's I grew up in.

As today is the 'official' day to celebrate all things retro then I recommend a visit to Teezers Retro Golf in Coventry, Joe Joe Jim's Crazy Crazy Golf course at Fletcher's Arcade in Cofton Hackett, Birmingham, Arcade Club in Bury and/or Leeds and Retro Arcade in Warrington.

Playing Mousetrap at Teezers Retro Golf in Coventry

Fletcher's retro arcade is home to a crazy Crazy Golf course

In Pole Position at Arcade Club in Bury

I enjoyed a trip to Pac-Land at Arcade Club in Leeds just before Christmas

There is a wonderful array of retro arcade cabinets in this old railway arch in Warrington

Playing Crazy Golf at Coal Drops Yard in King's Cross, London

A visit to the pop-up Crazy Golf course at Coal Drops Yard in King's Cross, London.

I called in to Coal Drops Yard in King's Cross to play the CLUB GOLF crazy golf pop-up in the shopping and dining area yesterday.

At the 948th course visited on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour

Hole 1 by night

Artists Baker & Borowski created the 9-hole themed Crazy Golf layout inspired by the rave culture in the King's Cross area back in the 1980's and 90's.

There are a lot of signs for the course directing people all the way from King's Cross station

Players can tee-off on the course midday to 8pm Monday to Saturday, with games costing £5 (under 12s play for free). The layout opened on the 19th February and will close on the 29th March.

Hole 3's loop-di-loop

The course was the 948th visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Holes 7 and 9

In my round I shot a 23 - the scorecard noted that the maximum score allowed was 63! A seven on each hole.

Hole 1

Hole 1

Hole 2

Hole 3

Hole 4

Hole 5

Hole 6 begins on the balcony

The pipe then flows down to ground level

And onto the 'green'

The putting area of hole 6

Hole 7

Hole 8

Hole 8

Hole 9

Visit the Coal Drops Yard website for more information.

The Club House

The Rules