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Experience: We’ve visited more than 1,000 crazy golf courses
Once, we got stuck on a cliff face in a storm while trekking up a headland in Wales to play the course at the top
Our obsession with crazy golf started after we played a friendly round with Richard’s brother, back in 2006. We travelled from our home in Stockport to visit my family in the seaside town of Felixstowe, and someone suggested a game. Richard managed to get a hole-in-one, which won him a free game.
We started talking about how many crazy golf courses there are in the UK – we looked it up, and found there were more than 600. We’d just bought our first car and decided it would be fun to try to visit them all as a way to see the country.
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