The Forgotten Garden Golf at The Alnwick Garden

We visited gorgeous Northumberland for a few days and stayed in Alnwick. 

Visiting the Alnwick Garden, there's a crazy golf course on the way in. You don't need to pay to go into the gardens in order to play the golf.   

Oddly, it was a 13 hole course, but it was a lot of fun, nicely landscaped and set in lovely wooded grounds.

Hope you enjoy our pictures from the course, below

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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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Barnard Castle mini golf - a review by Two Crazy Golfers

We're just back from a few days' break to the city of Durham and as it was Flaming Nora's birthday, we spent one of our days in the market town of Barnard Castle. While there, we couldn't resist playing the crazy golf which is located next to the kids' play park beside the castle.

What a smashing little course it is - and dedicated to Alan Wilkinson (see picture above) who "introduced mini golf to Scar Top" in Barnard Castle.

There are 9 holes, each one themed around something in the town of Barnard Castle or the surrounding areas. 

Here are some of our pictures...

Very friendly staff in the office. The cost to play was £3 per adult. It was covid safe and the clubs and balls were sanitised between use.

And as for the scores it was Sunny Jim 25 and Flaming Nora 30.  Another great result for Sunny Jim!

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Crazy golf during coronavirus at Laser Quest in Sunderland

We live in Sunderland and love crazy golf so how on earth did it take us a whole year to discover there was a crazy golf course in Sunderland?  Well, it seemed to pass us by completely. However, rest assured that once we found out about it, we went to play a game.

It's at Laser Quest in the city centre and it's played in the dark so everything - even the sticks and balls - glow in the dark.

We were the only players on the course on the day that we went. And as it was during the coronavirus pandemic, we had to take security measures on our way in and out.  We had our temperatures taken on the way in and were encouraged to use hand sanitiser provided at the entrance. We also had our details taken for track and trace purposes too.  Once all of this had been done, we were led into a vast space for a game of 12 holes in the dark.

It was fun, as crazy golf tends to be, and we enjoyed playing there a lot. The theme was spaceships and aliens and the eerie glowing images added something to playing in the dark.

What was even more eerie however, was playing during the coronavirus pandemic and being the only players in the place on the day that we went. This meant that there was an end of the world feel to the game, which wasn't entirely due to the neon glow of the aliens painted on the walls. It was spooky and sinister ... and great fun all rolled into one.

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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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Treasure Island Mini Golf, Bridlington

Treasure Island Mini-Golf in Bridlington is an indoor game of 10 holes. The course is situated close to Bridlington harbour in the small strip of amusement arcades, opposite the fun fair.

The cost was £4 each and it was a lot of fun. It seemed quite new inside and there were plenty of pirate statues, one of which kept imploring us (over and over) to have a chocolate sundae after the game. I think the chocolate sundae seller might have been the adventure golf owner too.  Just a hunch.

Anyway, it was good fun even if the holes were short and space was tight inside the game. Many of the holes were easy hole-in-one shots. That is... as long as you got the ball in the right place to allow it to run the right way to the hole in the first place. What I mean is that some of the holes allowed a hole in one but you had, first for example, to get the ball up a very steep, short volcano, that kind of thing.

Definitely worth checking out if you're in Bridlington, a lovely place to visit.

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Mr Mulligan's Space Golf, Newcastle

A new indoor crazy golf has opened this year in Newcastle and off we went to give it a whirl.  It's called Mr Mulligan's Space Golf and it based in what was the Co-operative store on Westgate Street.

Inside it's huge - with three games of nine holes each. You can play as many as you like and of course, we paid to pay all three games, a total of £11.25 each.

With it being new it was very impressive and clean. There were free lockers to store bags and jackets in, you were given a choice of colour of ball and off you went to any one of the three nine hole games you wanted to play first.

The first round we played was a little disappointing as the holes were really short - and far too easy. Not much of a challenge there, but enjoyable enough.  The second round was better and by far my favourite was the third and final round of the steampunk game which came complete with some special effects that made us laugh out loud. As we were the only people in playing on the day we went, and we had the course to ourselves, we made those special effects go a bit mad once we realised what was going on.

Yes, it's fun. It's also huge with a large seating area for drinking and dining. It feels a bit 'corporate' but still worth checking out.

Scores: Sunny Jim won - but only just.
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