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1603 Hopmeadow St
Simsbury, CT 06070
(860) 651-9055

Price: $6.00 (2010) Other Activities: Ice Cream, Bowling

Par: 39

2001, 2004, 2005 2010

Difficulty: 7 Difficulty: 6

Creativity: 6 Creativity: 6

Atmosphere: 9 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.

2010 Update

The big difference between this review and prior reviews is that the entire course was recarpeted in April 2010. As a result, all of the sandtraps and rough was removed, leaving just one level of carpeting throughout the hole. This was done as the course managers felt it would be easier to maintain (as water would get under the edges of where the different carpets met). The only thing this changed was the difficulty of the holes as the single type of carpeting made the putting a little easier. However all of the other factors remained the same. The course was very clean and nicely landscaped. We did have to deal with some bugs, but that’s to be expected anywhere in the middle of the summer in Connecticut. We continue to keep this on our list of recommended courses to play in Connecticut.

Reviewed by Pat, Mandy and Putt

Reviewed in 2001, with updates in 2004, 2005 and 2010

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Course pictures (click to enlarge)