Crazy Pool

A look at minigolf and billiard hybrid games.

We've seen a fair few variations and hybrids of minigolf, pool, snooker & billiards games on our travels. These have included Crazy Golf Pool and Pit-Pat, as well as some Crazy Golf obstacles that have been created using old pool and snooker tables.

We visited Skegness in 2011 and there was a sign for Crazy Pool on the promenade. It shared the sign for The Original Crazy Golf but there wasn't a trace of any tables when we were there.

A sign for Crazy Pool in Skegness, Lincolnshire back in 2011

Roxy Ball Room in Liverpool's Hanover Street will be home to a Crazy Pool game when it reopens later this month. It'll be an 8-table layout and I'm intrigued to see what the set-up is.

I first saw the game of Pit-Pat (obstacle billiards) in Vienna, Austria back in 2010 - it's like minigolf but played with cues.

You can find official Pit-Pat courses indoors at The Floodgate in Digbeth, Birmingham (where it's called Pit-Pat Table Golf) and outdoors at Watermouth Family Theme Park and Castle in Devon (where it is known as Crazy Snooker).

The only other full-size outdoor Pit-Pat layout in the UK was in Littlehampton. Sadly it became a lost course in 2017.

A selection of the minigolf and cue-sport crossovers we've seen on our travels

Related blog posts:
- Crazy Snooker Pool Billiards Golf and Pit-Pat
- Crazy World of Minigolf Tour - courses we've visited to date

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Week 4 of the Putt18 World Pro League

My results in week 4 of the Putt18 World Pro League.

I've just completed my rounds in Week 4 of the Putt18 World Pro League.

Provisional scores for Week 4:
- Round 1 = 79
- Round 2 = 70
- Round 3 = 74
- Round 4 = 76

Total = 299

Timings of the rounds:
- Round 1 = 3:37.92
- Round 2 = 4:06.46
- Round 3 = 4:21.90
- Round 4 = 4:45.40

Total = 16:50.70

For more information on the Putt18 golf game mat check out the Putt18 website.

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Ghetto Golf heading to Sheffield

Sheffield will be home to a new indoor crazy golf venue as Ghetto Golf are set to create a course in a vacant industrial warehouse in the John Street area of the city.

The adults-only indoor crazy golf course will also feature a bar and street food.

Ghetto Golf Sheffield will be the fourth venue, following Liverpool, Birmingham and Newcastle upon Tyne.

There are also plans for a Ghetto Golf course in Glasgow.

Visit the Ghetto Golf website for more information.

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New Caddyshackers Crazy Golf opening in Nottingham

Caddyshackers will be opening a new crazy golf venue in Nottingham.

The city centre venue will be home to a 9-hole and an 18-hole crazy golf layout, with a bar, dartboards and arcade games too.

Caddyshackers in Nottingham is planned to open later this year or in early 2021.

Caddyshackers was originally set-up as an adults-only competitive socialising venue, however they now allow under-18s at certain times.

Visit the Caddyshackers website for more information.

There is an 18-hole Caddyshackers venue in Leicester. It became the 903rd course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour when we played there last year.

Playing at Caddyshackers in June 2019

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Crazy Pool at Roxy Ball Room in Liverpool

Liverpool's Roxy Ball Room venue on Hanover Street has received a makeover and is reopening on the 27th August.

One of the new games to play at Roxy Ball Room on Hanover Street will be Crazy Pool.

The team at Roxy Ball Room has described it as mash up of minigolf and pool.

It'll be interesting to see what the game is like and if it's Pit-Pat, or another variant on billiards and miniature golf.

Check out the Roxy Ball Room website for details of their eleven venues and the games on offer.

The Roxy Ball Room venue at Rainford Square in Liverpool is home to a crazy golf course. We're yet to play there on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

We have played minigolf at Boar Lane in Leeds and Deansgate in Manchester.

The new Withy Grove Roxy Ball Room in Manchester will also be home to a minigolf course.

Check out my blog post "Crazy Snooker Pool Billiards Golf and Pit-Pat" for a look at some of the stranger miniature golf and cue-sports crossover games we've played on our travels.

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Crazy Golf Jigsaw Puzzle

Did you know there's a Jumbo Jan van Haasteren Crazy Golf Jigsaw Puzzle?

We found this jigsaw puzzle in Derby market after a lot of searching

One month until Miniature Golf Day 2020

There's a month to go until Miniature Golf Day 2020.

Miniature Golf Day is always on the 21st September. This year it falls on a Monday.

It'll certainly be a crazy Miniature Golf Day this year!

Last year we played the Crazy Golf course at Southport's Botanic Gardens to celebrate the day.

How times change!

We'll likely be Putting at Home this year.

One of the holes at Southport's Botanic Gardens Crazy Golf course

We also visited The Masters Putting Green at King's Gardens while we were over in Southport on Miniature Golf Day last year. The excellent 18-hole course was really really really busy so we didn't have time for a game. Here's a video of me scoring a hole-in-one there on a previous visit.

Dates for your minigolf diary 2021

Each year there are two minigolf days.

The first of the year is National Miniature Golf Day which is on the second Saturday in May. In 2021 that is Saturday 8th May.

The second, Miniature Golf Day, is always on the 21st September. In 2021 that will be a Tuesday.

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Crazy Golf and Crazy Snooker at Watermouth Family Theme Park and Castle in Devon

There are Crazy Golf and Crazy Snooker courses at Watermouth Family Theme Park and Castle near Ilfracombe in North Devon.

One of the places to visit on our post-pandemic bucket list is Watermouth Family Theme Park and Castle near Ilfracombe in Devon.

There's a 9-hole Crazy ‘Fountain’ Golf course there AND a Crazy Snooker layout. When I checked with the theme park the team confirmed it is a Pit-Pat layout. That makes it the only outdoor Pit-Pat course in the UK!

Watermouth money

Two of the tokens in my collection come from Watermouth Castle. I found them at an antiques fair back in 2015 and I found out they date from before 1992.

What a happy castle

I wonder how much 10 Gnolds are worth these days? Not that I'd part with the coin

Visit the Watermouth Family Theme Park and Castle website for more information.

Gator Adventure Golf at Escape Entertainment in Chorley

Playing Gator Adventure Golf at Escape Entertainment in Chorley.

We played our first new minigolf course in almost six months when we visited the Escape Entertainment Venue in Chorley, Lancashire last Thursday. It was the first course we've played during the coronavirus pandemic.

The 18-hole indoor Gator Adventure Golf course became the 955th visited overall on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour since September 2006.

The last round of minigolf I played was back on the 9th March, while our last round together was on the 19th January! Before our visit to Gator Adventure Golf the last totally new miniature golf course played on our tour was back on the 25th February.

The Rules of Gator Golf

In our minigolf match-up I took the win with a score of 43 to Emily's 53.

Playing hole 4

We were both a little rusty on our shots!

Emily on hole 13

Photos of the 18-hole Floridian-themed adventure golf course.

Hole 1

The green on hole 1

Hole 2

Hole 2

Hole 3

The green on hole 3

Hole 4

Alligators!

Hole 5

The raft from hole 5 to hole 6

The raft

Hole 5

Hole 6

Hole 7

Hole 8

Hole 9

Hole 10

Hole 10

Hole 11

Hole 12

Hole 13

Hole 14

Hole 15

Hole 16

Hole 17

Hole 17

Hole 18

Hole 18

Check out the Gator Adventure Golf at Escape Entertainment website for more information, opening times and prices.

We survived!

The closest I'll be getting to flying anytime soon

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The Goonies street art

It's fun seeing street art and graffiti on my travels and I saw this superb piece by JXC Designs on my last trip down to London back in February.

Truffle Shuffle!