YOU DIDN’T HONESTLY THINK I’D RETIRE FOR LONG DID YOU?

25 July 2021

I stood in the restaurant a year after retiring and thought how sad it was for such a vibrant place to die. A place where, since 1983 over half a million people have visited.

Then I had the idea of Crazy Golf! I had the land so, in the end it took 140 sacks of cement, 60 tons of gravel, 30 tons of white marble chippings, a lake filled in, 23 trees cut down, 2 broken ribs, a smashed elbow and a lot of blood spilt on the earth to create. In doing so I lost 11 kilos and it knackered me completely. But now the course is a reality.

I’ve built 18 holes, although after the first 9 I thought I must be mad, opened the bar again and am enjoying seeing all the families and other people enjoying what I have created.

All the best,
Paul Hickling