{"id":17561,"date":"2025-07-23T09:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/17561\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:21:08","slug":"birdie-barn-putting-range-opens-this-week-in-west-mersea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/17561\/","title":{"rendered":"Birdie Barn Putting Range opens this week in West Mersea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Joe Hedges, 32, is the owner of Wonderland Amusements in Witham, a food and amusements business which trades at events across the UK, including Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The business is launching Birdie Barn Putting Range at West Mersea Marine Boatyard, next to Seafood at Dawn, for a six-week period from Thursday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Birdie Barn Putting Range has branded itself as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazette-news.co.uk\/news\/25303596.new-mini-golf-experience-launch-mersea-late-july\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cthe ultimate indoor mini golf experience with a twist\u201d<\/a>\u00a0on its Facebook page.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Boss - Joe Hedges with his wife Olivia\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Boss &#8211; Joe Hedges with his wife Olivia (Image: Joe Hedges) Its mini golf putting range has moving obstacles, and there will be barista coffee, milkshakes, loaded donuts and other snacks available.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Hedges thought the idea \u201cmight be fun\u201d to do and set about creating the course.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: \u201cWe got in touch with the boatyard about it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThere isn\u2019t really anything for young families to do like this in the area.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cSo it\u2019s something we liked the idea of, the golf and food offering.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Colorful - Birdie Barn Putting Range\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Colorful &#8211; Birdie Barn Putting Range (Image: Birdie Barn Putting Range)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Birdie Barn Putting Range\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Birdie Barn Putting Range (Image: Birdie Barn Putting Range) Birdie Ban Putting Range will feature a mix of games\u00a0such as putt pong, ferris wheel mini golf, pinball putt, golf\u00a0roulette, and skee ball putt.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Many of the games were decided in February and then Mr Hedges and his team worked to bring them to life over the last several months.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The barn itself is a \u201cmobile unit\u201d which is used as \u201cmulti-purpose structure\u201d, so at Winter Wonderland it is turned into a caf\u00e9.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Hedges said: \u201cWe\u2019re just excited, we came up with the games and then pulled the trigger on it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Some of the games available\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Some of the games available (Image: Birdie Barn Putting Range)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Birdie Barn Putting Range\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Birdie Barn Putting Range (Image: Birdie Barn Putting Range) \u201cIt\u2019s fantastic, we\u2019ve really been looking forward to, we\u2019ve wanted to do it for a few years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe\u2019ve had a lot of good feedback, and we hope everyone can come down and have a look.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The mini golf putting challenge costs \u00a37 per person, four loaded donuts\u00a0cost between \u00a35 to \u00a37 and deluxe ice cream milkshakes are \u00a36.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Birdie Barn Putting Range will open Monday to Sunday 11am until 6pm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Parking is available at Burma Road Car Park in Coast Road.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  To find out more, visit\u00a0facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61577940428770.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Hedges, 32, is the owner of Wonderland Amusements in Witham, a food and amusements business which trades&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-17561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}