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1603 Hopmeadow
St
Simsbury , CT
06070
(860) 651-9055
Price: $5.00 Other
Activities: Ice
Cream, Bowling
Par: 39
Difficulty: 7
Creativity: 6
Atmosphere: 9
Here’s a course that’s a good example of an adventure style mini-golf course (one without obstacles). Instead of using windmills and loop-de-loops, this course only uses difficult angles and a well placed rock thrown in to boot. Each hole on this course is disguised to look a bit like a real golf hole. There’s rough, sandtraps and the occasional water hazard. The rough and traps are simply shabby carpeting colored different, but they make for a bit tougher putt. Unlike some courses which uses one or both of these features haphazardly, Blue Fox does try to create that feel of being on a real course, on each and every hole. However, if you’re like some of us who love obstacle-laden holes, you’ll respect this course for what it is, but it may not feel as fun to play.
Now the design of some of the holes is interesting enough to bring the course’s creativity level up to that of many other courses. Also, this course isn’t terribly difficult to play (although we all were over par) leaving it with an average rating on that scale, as far as the courses we’ve played go. With the exception of hole #5, which can be an extremely difficult hole and has wrecked havoc on many a player’s round. Where this course makes its money is on the atmosphere. It missed getting a ten because of some sections of the hole boundaries where the rocks were smaller than the rest. Usually, these were in inconvenient places, which allow for the ball to go out too easily. Other than that, this course is clean, well-kept and nicely landscaped. Like many courses, there’s a central system of water running through it and the course makes use of this in spots. Also like many courses this one has an ice cream parlor on site, but here you can get 24 flavors of soft-serve. This is also one of the few that post a course record (33 - None of us came close to that.) You get free stuff if you beat the record and have two witnesses to verify. So definitely bring friends along if you play this course, which we recommend you do.
Reviewed by Pat, Mandy and Putt
Reviewed in 2001, with updates in 2004 and 2005
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