‘Rocketships & Windmills’, a new book by Liverpool photographer Mark McNulty, is a visual documentary of a simple passion stirred after a hungover trip to Southport one fateful Sunday – a fervour which would see him test his putting mettle in Rhyl, Poole, Dawlish, Whitby, Scarborough, Blackpool, Paignton, Runcorn and over forty other miniature golf courses around the country.

Across ninety-six A6 pages, using full bleed images, with the occasional panoramic, he covers the many courses of miniature golfing, from the traditional crazy golf of Arnold Palmer putting courses with their classic red and white windmills, to simple green felt courses, and to hand-crafted courses built by private park owners such as the one at Henblas Park on Anglesey, with its very own Menai Bridge obstacle. He also tries his hand at the newer, bigger, brasher American Adventure Golf courses, before returning to quaint local parish-run ones such as in Aintree, Liverpool. For Mark, ‘Rocketships & Windmills’ is partly about nostalgia, partly the attraction of colourful seaside resorts and all about the photographer as a collector, documenting an incredible other world of golf which can be urban, coastal, private, public, brand new or sadly overlooked and run down.

Rocketships & Windmills is available nationally with a cover price of £9.99 published by Peppered Sprout isbn 0-955-1660-0-4