North Bay Adventure Golf, Scarborough

It was a cold December day in Scarborough but the crazy golf was open and who can't resist a game?  We were in Scarborough for the book launch of Flaming Nora's ballroom dancing cosy crime Deadly Dancing at the Seaview Hotel.  With an hour or two to spare, we saw the course was open and decided to play.

We were given a free game as the pitch was seriously waterlogged, but still playable (mainly).  It was fun and it was good to see one of the holes had changed to be sponsored by Yeti Roofing. A nice idea. 

Final scores weren't counted due to the waterlogged pitch. 

Great to know the course is open all year round, even on the coldest of days where you can warm up with a hot coffee too.

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Paperback publication day ... of the world's first crazy golf cosy crime?!

Now available in paperback!

FOUL PLAY AT THE SEAVIEW HOTEL is a cosy crime / murder mystery set in Scarborough, Yorkshire and published by Headline. 

A murderer plays a killer game when a team of obsessive crazy golfers arrive at Helen Dexter's Seaview Hotel to compete in a tournament held in the seaside town. The ruthless team captain aims to win by fair means or foul... then the rival team captain is murdered. 

Amazon link: bit.ly/FoulPlayAtTheSeaviewHotel

It's the third in the Seaview Hotel series of books, which were shortlisted for Best New Crime Series in the Dead Good Readers Awards 2022 with Richard Osman and Val McDermid at Harrogate International Crime Festival. 

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New & Updated! North Bay Adventure Golf in Scarborough

The crazy golf course on the North Bay in Scarborough is one of our favourite courses, ever. It's in our happy place of Scarborough and has always been a wonderful course. You can read our earlier reviews here. 

However, after many years of neglect after a massive storm forced seawater onto the course, it became difficult, if not impossible to play. The course wasn't looked after and was going downhill - as well as uphill, side to side, well, you get the gist. We still loved playing it, though!    Now it's been taken over by a new company who have updated the course whilst still retaining the character of this great course.

The location is superb of course, and it's what makes it for me (Flaming Nora). Right on the beach at Scarborough's north bay overlooking the sea, the castle, and waving at the little train that goes by along the cliff top too.  I love it a lot.

Here are some pictures taken today when we played a round.  The updated course now includes an outdoors cafe and bar area too.  One addition I particularly liked, when writing the scores on the score sheet, were the barrels at each hole to rest on while writing scores.  You can also put your drinks and handbags there too while playing.

What's been lost in the upgrade to the course, however, is the chalkboard on the side of the hut to record your name and score.  But on the whole, a great update that keeps the original character of the course.

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Ocean Drive Crazy Golf, Filey in Yorkshire

In Filey for a long weekend while Crazy Golfer Glenda Young (aka Flaming Nora) was invited to take part in the Filey Literature Festival and Filey Book Fair, to promote her cosy crimes set in Scarborough. Read about them here! bit.ly/MurderAtTheSeaviewHotel

We played the crazy golf course on the sea front, which is in a stunning location, right by the sea.  

The course has recently been re-laid, we have played it before in the past, but this time it was smoother and was a really nice, fun game.

Final scores were Sunny Jim 24 and Flaming Nora 26.
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Crazy golf novel to be published in September

*COVER REVEAL*  

My crazy golf cosy crime set in Scarborough, Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel is published in September by Headline at bit.ly/FoulPlayAtTheSeaviewHotel 

Glenda Young 

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Ocean Drive Crazy Golf in Filey

On a recent visit to Scarborough, we took the car and drove to Filey for a visit. While there, we played a game of crazy golf on the seafront at Ocean Drive.

It was a 9 hole course, nicely maintained and neither too tricky or too easy to play. 

It even had a giant lobster.

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Crazy golf coronavirus lockdown in Sunderland

It's Baz's big birthday today, Thursday 2 April 2020 and he's 60 years old!  We should have been celebrating in Scarborough for the weekend with family and friends. And when in Scarborough one of the many things we love to do is have a game of crazy golf.

You can read more on our Scarborough crazy golf shenanigans here.

Well, as we weren't able to get to play crazy golf in Scarborough, we thought we'd bring Scarborough and crazy golf to our own back garden. Oh yes.  I made the signs.... (all expense spared)...

Baz cobbled together a putter and we found an old golf ball in our shed.

Here's Bazy ready to play this morning in the howling wind in our back garden!

Here's Baz Golf set up in our back garden today.

And here we go!

Hole number 1 - The Pipes

Hole number 2 - The Chairs

Hole number 3 -The Birdhouse

Hole number 4 -The Gate

Hole number 5 - The Birdfeeder

Hole number 6 - The Lighthouse

Hole number 7 - The Snake

Hole number 8 -The Hosepipe

Hole number 9 - The Bucket

Happy Birthday, Barry!

Send 60th birthday wishes to Baz on Twitter @sunnyjimbaz

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My fantasy crazy golf course - what would it contain?

Yesterday we played a game of pirate crazy golf at South Shields. It's a course we have played many times before and we had a good time.  The score, as you can see, was very close indeed.

South Shields - Smugglers Cove Adventure Golf, May 28 2016

While we were playing this course, I started thinking about the best bits of all the crazy golf courses I've ever played.  Putting all my favourite bits from all my favourite courses together would create my fantasy crazy golf course.

What would it contain?  Well...

1. Music
A catchy tune that jingles its way out of hidden speakers around the course and will ear-worm you forever. There's one of these at the Pirate crazy golf course in Scarborough.
"Yo-ho, Yo-ho, Yo-ho, Yo-ho; A pirate's life for me!"

2. Surprise

The course at Tynemouth has surprise water sprays on some of the holes. Always gets a good laugh - when you get sprayed yourself. Gets an even bigger laugh when you watch someone else get sprayed.

3. Seats

Somewhere to sit and wait while you're stuck in a traffic-jam queue on a course.

4. A bar

Tenerife, 2015

Having somewhere to sit, preferably with a beer, before or after you've played.  A lovely addition to a mini golf course but one we've only ever seen before abroad - in both Belgium and Tenerife.

5. A free game 

Saltburn, 2016

Whether it's making the bell ring at the end of a game, or some other way of rewarding a good final shot well played, there's a lot of fun in winning a voucher for a free game.

6. No concreteThere's not much I dislike about crazy golf, but playing on a concrete course is less than ideal. It puts me off so much that I would choose not to play a concrete course. The ball just runs, and runs and runs.

7. Water

Tynemouth 2015

I love, just love, having water involved in one of the holes.  (Not to be confused with 2 - Surprise above!).  One of the holes at Pirate Golf in Scarborough has running water which transports the ball down a slope and deposits it on the green. Lots of fun.  And if there is a danger of the ball going into a lake or pond on the course, a fishing net to get the ball out of the water is ideal.

8. Uniqueness
There's a crazy golf course at Seahouses in Northumberland. The holes are all, what appear to be, hand-made miniature buildings of local attractions. Much as the pirate-themed adventure golf courses are fun and well made and plastic and bright, I would like more quirkiness please!
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Scarborough - Pirate Crazy Golf

Ahoy me hearties!  To Scarborough for a weekend.  Our favourite crazy golf course in the whole of Scarbados was closed. Instead, we played the Merlin pirate crazy golf. It's one we've played a few times before and know it to be a good course, fun with the rafts and nice holes to play.

It was a bitterly cold day, despite the sun shining.

And here are the scores. SunnyJim won by 4 points. Although, if we had been playinbg by the rules, Flaming Nora (aka me) wouldn't have been allowed to run on hole number one for 10 shots. Instead, this would have been the maximum of 6 shots, bringing my score down by four to meet Sunny Jim's 39.

It was a draw, then, I think!

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Ahoy me hearties! Pirate mini-golf in Scarborough

To Scarborough (again! wahey!) for a weekend away. It was a gloriously sunny and warm early October Friday afternoon when we arrived and so we headed to the pirate adventure golf on the sea-front in the North Bay.

It's a course we have played a few times in the past but due to its popularity, it's quite difficult to get on the course some times so we haven't played it for a while.  We have often turned up to play there only to find the course full of families having fun and that's great, but it means a long, long, long wait for us two crazy golfers as we wait for groups of family and friends to crack on and get going ahead of us.

However, this sunny Friday afternoon we had the course to ourselves. Just us. Just the two of us playing a round on the pirate golf, it was marvellous!

 It's a 9 hole course and costs £4.50 per person which is a bit steep, admittedly. But there is the fun of lots of pirates all over the place, a hole (above) with running water in it to help the ball down the chute and two pirate rafts you have to stand on and pull yourself over to the other side of the course.

And then there's the "Yo-ho! Yo-ho!" song that goes on in the background which will ear-worm you for days.

The pirate golf is part of the sea-life centre in Scarborough and is well worth playing.
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