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We hope you're enjoying the weather wherever you are in the world. It's boiling hot here in sunny Stockport.
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Emily is the PIAG Open Champion
Emily is the 2019 Paradise Island Adventure Golf Open Champion after winning the tournament held last weekend.
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Emily scored a course record of 30 on the Temple Ruins layout - the course par is 42 - which was enough to fend off the challenge of thousands of other players who competed over the four-day event. Her round included seven holes-in-one on the 18-hole course.
The annual PIAG Open competition takes place across the brand's seven Paradise Island Adventure Golf venues and is the largest Open tournament in the UK with thousands of players competing across three age categories at each venue. The 2020 tournament will see players also compete at the new Paradise Island Adventure Golf site in Plymouth.
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Princess Parade Crazy Golf course project in Blackpool
The teams at Blackpool Fulfilling Lives and Blackpool & the Fylde Street Angels have joined forces to refresh and reopen the Princess Parade Crazy Golf course on Blackpool's North Shore.
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The minigolf project is helping homeless people in Blackpool by giving them the chance to work on the Crazy Golf course so it is playable and then staffing it for the season. It's a wonderful plan to give people the opportunity to receive work experience, while also bringing an historic, but disused, miniature golf course back to life.
More information on the project can be found on the Blackpool Princess Parade Crazy Golf Facebook Group.
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A look back on our South West of England road-trip
On a day as nice and hot as today we've been reminded of our visit to Perranporth, Cornwall. One of the nicest seasides we've been to on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.
The Boating Lake there was a lovely spot to have a sit down to eat our Fish & Chips.
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As a bonus, the park benches are next to the lake and a Putting Green.
You can see some more of our recent posts about visits to courses in Torquay, Paignton, Woolacombe, Plymouth and Wesward Ho! during our mammoth road-trip back in 2015 up on the blog.
In a two-week period we visited 62 courses!
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Holey Moley
There's a new Miniature Golf TV show airing in the USA at the moment called Holey Moley.
It's a fun and very crazy mix of minigolf, a giant obstacle course and a splash park! The series is made by the producers of the Wipeout TV show.
Our friends and fellow minigolf addicts Pat Sheridan of The Putting Penguin and Tom & Robin from A Couple of Putts will be appearing on the programme. Pat will be on tonight's show, while Tom and Robin will be on in August.
We can't wait to see how they get on.
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Summer Mini Golf Checklist 2019
As we're BIG fans of minigolf and the summer we created a Summer Mini Golf Checklist containing 18 fun minigolf 'things to do' to get as many people playing the great game as possible.
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1. Play at five different minigolf courses
2. Score par or better on a course
3. Compete in a miniature golf tournament
4. Score seven holes-in-one
5. Play a game of Pitch & Putt miniature golf
6. Play at a Pirate Adventure Golf course
7. Play a course with a Jungle-theme
8. Play a dinosaur-themed course
9. Play three windmill obstacles
10. Play at a space-themed course
11. Read a book about minigolf
12. Play a portable or pop-up course
13. Play at an indoor course (it doesn't have to be on a rainy day)
14. Play a course on a pier
15. Find and post a minigolf postcard
16. Post about minigolf on social media and use the hashtags #minigolf and #summerminigolf19
17. Play three loop-di-loop obstacles
18. Play minigolf at a garden centre
19th hole – Win a FREE GAME on a Lucky Last Hole!
We hope you enjoy ticking off the activities on the Summer Mini Golf Checklist wherever you are in the world.
The first three people to complete the Summer Mini Golf Checklist 2019 will win a free game with us, either at their local course (if we're in the area), or at one of our local courses (if they're in the area).
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Upcoming events at Minigolf Neuhaus in Germany
There are two fun minigolf events coming up at Minigolf Neuhaus in Germany.
Both are taking place on Saturday 27th July, with a family event from 3pm and the first-ever Moonlight Minigolf competition at the course following at 8pm until 11pm.
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You can register for the events via the Minigolf Neuhaus Facebook Page. More info can be found on the Minigolf Neuhaus website.
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A charity skydive
Good luck to our friend and minigolf rival Owen 'Jackpot' Johnson who is doing a sponsored skydive for the Caudwell Children's charity!
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City Golf's Adventure Golf photo competition
The team at City Golf Europe has built over 300 adventure golf courses in European countries and are now looking to find out which Adventure Golf holes minigolf fans think are the most beautiful.
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We've played a number of City Golf courses on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour, ranging from permanent Adventure Golf and Mini Golf courses, to their more traditional Swedish Felt types of course.
More info on the Adventure Golf photo competition can be found on the City Golf Europe website.
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Mattie 5 - Putt-Putt and Mini Golf Champion
Our friend and Putt-Putt fanatic Matt 'Mattie 5' Bellner has just launched a GoFundMe campaign for his minigolf movie.
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We're looking forward to seeing the end result!
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From Brighton to Burnley on our Crazy World of Mingolf Tour
In March 2007 we visited the 12th course on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. It was on the seafront in Brighton. Earlier this month we visited our 912th course. It was a Putting Green in Burnley.
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We hope you enjoy as much minigolf as you can over the summer.
As always, if you've got any suggestions for where to play, upcoming events or minigolf news please do let us know.
Cheers!
Richard and Emily
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