Information about the Filwood Fantastic Mini Golf Club in Knowle West, Bristol.
A new home-based minigolf club has been created ahead of the building of a brand new minigolf course in Bristol.
Many thanks to our friend, minigolf rival and Midlands Minigolf Club team-mate Kevin Moseley for letting us know about the new minigolf club and course near him in Bristol.
The Filwood Fantastic Mini Golf Club has been set-up by artist Megan Clark-Bagnall to introduce fun and creativity during lockdown.
It's brilliant to see another example of competitive isolation during the pandemic. We've loved seeing all of the different Putt At Home activities taking place around the world while people haven't been able to get out to play.
We're looking forward to following the progress of the club and playing the course on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.
A look at the social distancing measures in place on the Crazy Golf course at The Flower Bowl Entertainment Centre in Preston.
The 18-hole Secret Garden Crazy Golf course is one of the new minigolf courses we had planned to play before the coronavirus pandemic hit. The course is part of The Flower Bowl Entertainment Centre in Preston, Lancashire.
We've heard great things from everyone who has had a chance to play there so far and the photos we've seen of the course have been amazing.
The team at The Flower Bowl Entertainment Centre have kindly sent over photos of The Secret Garden Crazy Golf course and details of the measures they've put in place to make it as safe as possible for players and to be COVID-19 Secure in 2020.
In addition to the Crazy Golf course the centre is home to a wide-range of activities that will be reopening in the coming weeks and months.
The impact of coronavirus
It'll be interesting to see the changes to how minigolf is played as lockdown restrictions ease and it becomes safer to get out and about a bit more.
I've been writing about social distancing and the impact of coronavirus on minigolf and competitive socialising venues. You can see more of my posts at 'The Coronavirus (Ham & Egger) Files'.
We're looking forward to restarting our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. It's currently paused at 948 course visits. We were on quite a roll this year as we visited 20 courses in the first 20 days of 2020.
We were also closing in on visiting the final 40 courses that were on our original list of 600 when our travels began in 2006.
During lockdown I've been looking through the archives and vaults of the Crazy Golf Museum and one of the things I found was this signed Matt "Mattie 5" Bellner calendar from 2016.
While out on our daily outdoor exercise we've been photographing social media signs, posters and messages and logging them on Instagram as a record of the times we're living through.
We'd be interested to see the different Covid-19 / social distancing posters and signs at minigolf courses in the UK and around the world.
Today's putting game for Minigolf Monday is the Putt-In-Play set by Gibbs Toys of Canton, Ohio, USA.
A 9-hole set up of Putt-In-Play
Also known as The Parlor Golf Game, the 9-hole wooden set has a nice range of obstacles to putt through.
Hole 1
Hole 2
Hole 3
Hole 4
Hole 5
Hole 6
Hole 7
Hole 8
Hole 9
The Putt-In-Play set originally consisted of the 9-holes, two wooden shafted 5 1/2" putters with metal heads, six steel golf balls, rules, blank score cards and a golf bag.
It's ace to look back at historic items from days gone by. The Putt-In-Play layout looks quite similar to Beton and Eternit types of miniature golf that were created in the 1950s and are still very popular in Continental Europe.
Do you have a favourite miniature golf game, or know of any others?
We went to our first outdoor market during the coronavirus pandemic on Saturday morning.
It was an interesting experience indeed.
There was a lot of social distancing signage and a good range of stalls.
There were lots of people out and about too too. Unfortunately not everyone understands what arrows and warning signs mean.
We didn't stay there for too long, but did buy some nice gin and mixers from DS Artisan Food & Drink before we scarpered.
I've been posting snaps of the wide-range of social distancing posters and signs I see on my daily outdoor exercise during the time of coronavirus. You can see them here on the blog and on my Instagram. I've seen some interesting, colourful and clear ones. And some really terrible ones too.
The World Crazy Golf Championships were due to take place at Hastings Adventure Golf this weekend.
Playing in the final of the 2009 World Crazy Golf Championships
Unfortunately it's another thing the coronavirus pandemic has put a stop to.
We both made our debuts in the 2007 edition when it was known as the Virgin Money World Crazy Golf Championships. It was Emily's first ever miniature golf tournament.
Emily playing hole 1 in the 2015 World Crazy Golf Championships
The World Crazy Golf Championships began in 2003. Two-time, back-to-back World Crazy Golf Champion Marc 'The Force' Chapman was due to defend the title in what would have been the 18th edition of the event.
A look at the Eternit Miniature Golf course at Cae Glas Park in Oswestry.
There aren't too many Eternit Miniature Golf courses here in the UK and some of those that do exist have been modified over the years.
One of the best examples is at Cae Glas Park in Oswestry, Shropshire.
We first visited the course at the end of our road-trip around Wales in 2009. It was the last course we played on the trip and the first one after crossing the border back into England.
We returned in 2012 to run the minigolf events at the Oswestry Games, aka the Oslympics.
We had a marvellous time in the town as part of the sports festival. We met some great people, delivered some fun coaching sessions and competed in two superb tournaments. We were also bronze medalists in the Oswestry Games pub quiz at the Cricket Club.
When it's safe to do so we'll head over to Oswestry to see what the course is like now.
Photos of the 18-hole Miniature Golf course (2012).