Mini Golf in and around Victoria
#1
Posted 31 May 2010 - 11:36 AM
How are other courses fairing?
#2
Posted 31 May 2010 - 12:12 PM
I understand there's one near Cowichan Lake.
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#3
Posted 31 May 2010 - 12:19 PM
Elk Lake just kills me. A pretty decent beach access, with a run-down mini golf, and pretty lousy surf rental shop, what I think is a poor restaurant (but I haven't been in there in at least 20 years), then mini-storage and a garden centre. WTF? A decent take-out restaurant there could be another Beacon Drive In. Or at the very least something nicer than Ice Cream Mountain. It'd be a must-stop kind of place, like Willows Galley.
#4
Posted 31 May 2010 - 12:41 PM
#5
Posted 31 May 2010 - 12:52 PM
What I hear is that if you want good mini-golf, you gotta go to Parksville.
#6
Posted 31 May 2010 - 12:56 PM
#7
Posted 31 May 2010 - 05:57 PM
#8
Posted 31 May 2010 - 09:06 PM
Any time I go I play at the Blenkensop course. Seems to be pretty decent with a few good challenges.
Where was the one on the Colwood strip? I remember it a long time ago, which car lot took over?
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#9
Posted 31 May 2010 - 09:23 PM
Where was the one on the Colwood strip? I remember it a long time ago, which car lot took over?
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#10
Posted 31 May 2010 - 09:46 PM
#11
Posted 31 May 2010 - 09:51 PM
From what I have heard the mini golf did not make much money.
#12
Posted 31 May 2010 - 10:11 PM
Stroke limits can be useful for when you have spazzy friends that will give up and stop trying after a 10+ stroke hole after they hit their ball with driving force over a rock and into the neighbouring property...
#13
Posted 01 June 2010 - 06:16 AM
Stroke limits can be useful for when you have spazzy friends that will give up and stop trying after a 10+ stroke hole after they hit their ball with driving force over a rock and into the neighbouring property...
That's the problem with many players. If you are not serious about your mini golf, you should not be out on the course. Same goes for kids that only play on an infrequent basis, and have no concept of the risk/reward strategy of multiple routes to the cup. Get out of my way!
#14
Posted 01 June 2010 - 06:39 AM
#15
Posted 01 June 2010 - 06:52 AM
I wish more people understood what serious business mini-golf was...
Tell me about it. I think it was about 1996, August 14th, 30 degrees. I was playing a full two rounds at Mattacks, I'm neck and neck with a friend, only one stroke separates us, going into hole 34. I'm down flat on my stomach, reading the green before my tee shot. This freaking 4-year-old hovers near the side of the fairway, cats his little shadow across my lie. He'd never heard such words that came from my mouth that day.
The result:
^ Well, sort of like that, with no fairway but more windmills and clowns in the background.
That little brat totally threw me off. I hope he burns in hell.
#16
Posted 01 June 2010 - 04:20 PM
Tell me about it. I think it was about 1996, August 14th, 30 degrees. I was playing a full two rounds at Mattacks, I'm neck and neck with a friend, only one stroke separates us, going into hole 34. I'm down flat on my stomach, reading the green before my tee shot. This freaking 4-year-old hovers near the side of the fairway, cats his little shadow across my lie. He'd never heard such words that came from my mouth that day.
The result:
^ Well, sort of like that, with no fairway but more windmills and clowns in the background.
That little brat totally threw me off. I hope he burns in hell.
He may have been admiring your golfing pants.
#17
Posted 29 August 2010 - 08:43 AM
In the past two decades, B.C.'s Okanagan Valley and the Fraser Valley to the west have reinvented themselves as centers of agri-tourism, drawing sophisticated foodies and wine connoisseurs from across North America. But old-fashioned roadside attractions such as mini-golf still survive — remnants of the area's past as a family holiday spot, dotted with sleepy lakeside beach towns.
No Island courses, unfortunately.
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#18
Posted 29 August 2010 - 05:52 PM
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Posted 04 September 2021 - 06:21 AM
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Posted 04 September 2021 - 09:42 AM
I'm usually frightened going downtown.
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