Venue name:

Coalville Minigolf <pics>

Address:

Coalville, Leicestershire

Cost:

£1.00 Adults / £1.00 Children

Telephone:

Open:

Outdoor or Indoor:

Outdoor

Number of Holes:

9

Par:

18

Course record:

Unknown

Type of course:

Adventure Golf

Reviewer name:

‘Squire’ Richard Gottfried

Review

Date:

14 June 2008

Weather (if applicable):

A lovely sunny day

Overall playability rating:

Playability:

Design:

8

Difficulty Level:

9 (A tough course with some very tricky greens)

Skill Factor:

9

Maintenance:

8 (there was some dried grass on the course where it hadn’t been swept away)

Sustainability:

8

Other factors:

Appearance:

9

Environment:

8 (nice surroundings, a fishing lake, a miniature railway)

Equipment:

7 (standard new course putters and course balls, but no specific scorecards for the course – we were given the 18-hole ‘Big’ Golf scorecard)

Originality:

10 (I haven’t played any of the holes elsewhere)

Venue Facilities:

5 (not really much else apart from the Minigolf Course and the Grass Putting Green, no toilets or refreshments near by)

Vicinity Facilities:

5 (as above)

Value for money:

10 (£1.00 for 9 holes and we could’ve played the Putting Green included in the price as well if we had had the time)

Reviewer comments:

A really nice course and well worth a play. We did notice though that at times the course was left unattended by the staff who were also working on the fishing lake. This meant that some people arrived to pay but were met by a locked hut.