Crazy golf. There can hardly be two words more likely to tarnish the image of a holiday destination. It’s up there with “amusement arcade” as a signifier of a seaside resort’s tackiness and decrepitude: tired putting greens with flaking windmills, found from Skegness to Scarborough. So you may be surprised to learn that crazy golf is having a renaissance.

New courses are opening at the rate of one a week. Some are indoors, to be played in the dark under UV lights. Some are adults-only, with saucy themes and cocktails. There’s even an annual World Crazy Golf Championship. No, really, it exists. Last year, Sky Sports broadcast live, on the hour, from the weekend event.

Having long been ignored...