There are so many options that it’s easy to get confused so here are simple descriptions of each style of golf to help you choose the one that will give you the experience you want.
A mini golf course is usually on a hard surface with putting challenges featuring interesting angles and testing your ability to control the ball. If you want to hone your putting skills, this might be a great place to start. Think of it like learning trick shots in snooker!
Indoors or outdoors, the crazy golf course is full of challenging obstacles. Try to get a ball past the sails of a windmills or through the rocket ship. You don’t have to be a kid to have plenty of laughs! It’s a fun challenge for parties, hen and stag dos and offers something for all ages and skills. If the weather is rubbish – head for an indoor course.
Bigger than a typical crazy golf course the décor is usually themed. This might be the land of the dinosaurs, an Indiana Jones styled or urban funk. The décor surrounds the course, rather than forming the obstacles, so it’s more like mini-golf, but with a fun twist. You can find indoor and outdoor courses, a great way to have fun on a rainy weekend.
If you’re looking for somewhere away from the vagaries of the British weather, indoor crazy golf could be the answer. It’s often themed around urban funk, with a mechanical focus, where the machinery is integrated to form the obstacles.
If you’re looking for something a bit more serious, a putting course is built on astroturf greens or channels, to provide a more realistic playing surface. If you’re looking for a skills challenge, this is a great way to polish your putting.
Think mini-golf – but instead of a golf club and ball, you’ll be testing your football skills, negotiating the ball from the starting point to the end ‘goal’ on each hole.
This is similar to crazy golf, but you’ll be using your foot skills to negotiate the obstacles – some are easy, some will really test your ball control!
aka Disc golf
Like foot golf, frisbee golf doesn’t involve a golf club or ball, it’s all about skimming your disc or frisbee into the bin which is the ‘hole’. This is another fun way to spend your time – and it always generates the banter that is a key part of spending times with friends or colleagues.
If you’re a keen golfer and you don’t have time to spend a few hours on the golf course, a round of pitch and putt could be the answer. With much shorter holes, you’ll be using a wedge and a putter to get your ball from the tee to the green and into the hole. More serious than crazy golf, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t have some fun with a few friends.