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Lighting and signage
Planning and Installing lighting is a very specialist skill that requires a lot of calculations.
The changes in level and undulations, twisting turns and planting on an adventure golf course mean more often than not bollard lights will get obscured leading to, too many dark patches. I should know as we have installed many bollard lights only to find a fair amount of lights not quite covering the ground. They work at first when the plants are just a foot high but when they grow, well you get the picture. Its ok if you can get floodlighting through planning controls as this makes the task a whole lot easier. However with so many councils concerned about light pollution, it falls on the local mini golf course to take the brunt of restrictions. Its a lot easier to stop the ‘little guy’, rather than all the other larger sports facilities and businesses lighting up our night sky. Still rant over! We have learnt that if you don’t need lighting due to opening restrictions then don’t bother! However if you can open at night, then lighting will greatly increase revenue and actually add more atmosphere (a bit like going to an evening football match). Playing at the seaside at 10 o’clock at night is a given and a standard. The advantage seaside courses have, is that there is normally a lot of light around, from adjacent attractions and street lighting. This is not the case in many of our local inland parks. We have learnt that lamppost lighting is probably the best way to find the happy balance between bollard and floodlights. Bollards are great on flat areas and I would agree generally that floods would be a little over the top for Adventure golf. If bollard lights are the only lighting you can get through planning then we can help as. As Brody said in jaws, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat” or we are gonna need more lights! So more lights the better when it comes to bollards. Add in some mood lighting and I’ve just convinced myself that this could work out! Whatever you decide we have enough experience to make sure the lighting work for the entire site.
Signage
Obviously a very important part of the design. Due to the open feel of our courses there can sometimes be a little confusion on which hole to play next. All courses follow a path form the first to the last hole but it beggars belief to see people walk off in the other direction after a hole. Placement, not size is key, as you do not want an overbearing Hole number, looking like it is from some sort of dystopian game you must play. Sometimes the adventure can be finding the number!
We use etched zinc plates which we glue to flat natural stone or actual plinths made for the job. The styling is very similar to what you would see on an actual golf course so giving the courses a sense of familiarity (for those golfers of a certain age!)
