{"id":421,"date":"2007-09-30T21:58:20","date_gmt":"2007-09-30T21:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/2007\/09\/30\/stewarts-gully-mini-golf-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T18:05:11","slug":"stewarts-gully-mini-golf-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.hellyer.kiwi\/ryanhellyer\/2007\/stewarts-gully-mini-golf-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewarts Gully Mini Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Beasts (my ice hockey team) headed to <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.ihug.co.nz\/~clive.m\/stewartsgully\/index.htm\" title=\"Stewarts Gully Mini Golf and Picnic Domain\" target=\"_blank\">Stewarts Gully Mini Golf<\/a>. The facility is owned by Clive Murphie, a top bloke who is also heavily involved with the <a href=\"http:\/\/aardwolfsice.com\/\" title=\"Christchurch Aardwolfs Ice Hockey Club\" target=\"_blank\">Aardwolfs Ice Hockey Club<\/a> who we played against in Christchurch. As it says on the label, this is &#8220;Mini Golf&#8221;, so basically big golf shrunk to a small size, no castles, water features or other fandangled things to navigate, just good old putting greens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/cliveminigolfw.jpg\" title=\"Clive Murphie: Stewarts Gully Mini Golf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/cliveminigolfw.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Clive Murphie: Stewarts Gully Mini Golf\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Clive Murphie, the owner of the course<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/beastsminigolf4.jpg\" title=\"Jane Soper watching Estelle Baker putting\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/beastsminigolf4.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Jane Soper watching Estelle Baker putting\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Estelle Baker expertly sinking the ball in the hole after some advice from Jane Soper (on right). Conveniently I clicked the shutter just as the ball was falling into the hole.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/beastsminigolf2w.jpg\" title=\"Jason Sedgwick playing mini-golf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/beastsminigolf2w.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Sedgwick playing mini-golf\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Jason Sedgwick kicking some serious butt on the greens<a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/beastsminigolf4.jpg\" title=\"Jane Soper watching Estelle Baker putting\"><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/beastsminigolf3w.jpg\" title=\"Jane Soper playing mini-golf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/beastsminigolf3w.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Jane Soper playing mini-golf\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Jane Soper playing catch up<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/beastsminigolf5w.jpg\" title=\"Neil Dudley slap shotting a golf ball\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/beastsminigolf5w.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Neil Dudley slap shotting a golf ball\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Neil Dudley aiming for 18th hole &#8230; from the 1st tee<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/beastsminigolf1w.jpg\" title=\"Estelle Baker playing mini golf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ryan.hellyer.kiwi\/files\/2007\/09\/beastsminigolf1w.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Estelle Baker playing mini golf\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Estelle Baker putting for gold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beasts (my ice hockey team) headed to Stewarts Gully Mini Golf. 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