Immersive Adventure Golf Course Design & Build for Southport Seafront

What is now one of Southport’s standout visitor attractions was once a car park in front of Pleasureland. Greenspan’s brief was to transform the unused space into an immersive, fully themed adventure golf experience.

This adventure golf course design draws on Norse culture across every element of the course. The 18-hole course is divided into five themed sections, each representing a different facet of Viking life: The Boat Yard, The Fisherman’s Hut, The Marshland, The Village, and The Marketplace.

Bringing Viking Theme to Life:

• Design elements like decorative painted shields, runic signage, timber longhouse structures, and stone carvings bring the course bring the vision to life.
• Featuring over 100 trees and plants of varying colors, sizes, and scents, and a custom winding water feature.
• Sustainability also played a role in the build. Timber used in the construction was a mixture of reclaimed wood from a nearby zoo, trees felled during coastal storms, and robinia wood we use to build all of our natural play areas.
• Playability is key to how we design every mini golf course. Hole designs range from simple putts to tricky challenges involving elevation, tunnels, narrow jumps, and blind shots. This variety makes it accessible and engaging for all ages and skill levels.

Viking Golf opened to strong public reception in 2022 and has become a solid fixture of Southport’s visitor offering in the years since. The project demonstrates what’s possible when theming, playability and course design are treated as a single creative problem, and the result is one of Greenspan’s most immersive adventure golf projects ever.

For classic adventure golf themes, like dinosaurs, check out: How Classic Adventure Golf Design Transformed a Sports Venue into a Regional Family Destination