Crazy Golf.

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Are there any serious crazy golf leagues or major crazy golf courses in Ireland? Are there any with club house, captains, tournaments and trophies etc?

Wondering if so, would it be a good start to brush up on putting skills and the like before starting out on nine hole then eighteen hole courses?

Trampas

putting course in Mount Juliet

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Here's a good site;

http://www.miniaturegolfer.com/

quote ..

"The 9th most popular 'leisure-time' sport activity of the Germans"
- (World Minigolfsport Federation, Information Brochure, 2002, Page 1)


"An informal version of golf played on a series of short obstacle courses."
- (Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 2002)

"This is despite the fact that there are professional players in America playing in tournaments where often the prize fund is in excess of $100,000. In fact American television's premier sports channel, ESPN often includes these bigger tournaments in their listings. As well as a professional circuit in the United States, there is a highly competitive European semi-professional circuit. In countries such as Germany, Austria, Sweden and Finland the government subsidises players, who take one day per week off work to practise their putting. These players also have quite extensive backup teams including coaches, physiotherapists and sometimes even sports psychologists. European and World Championships have been contested since 1959 and 1991 respectively, and still in Britain the sport is, to this day, fighting for recognition from those who control the sporting purse strings."


chance of being an olympic sport? ....


"Only sports widely practised by men in at least seventy-five countries and on four continents and by women in at least forty countries and on three continents, may be included in the programme of the Games of the Olympiad"

This means that although the WMF recognises National Associations on 5 continents its 30 members and affiliates 14, 44 in total, will have to be increased to at least 70. This will be a difficult task because the sport does not receive any substantial media coverage, even in the countries, in which it is popular. Even if the WMF succeeds in gaining 26 more members, Chapter 5, Rule 52, Section 1.1.4 of the Olympic Charter states:

"Sports are admitted to the programme of the Olympic Games at least seven years before specific Olympic Games in respect of which no change thereafter will be permitted."

Therefore upon successfully gaining more than 70 members and subsequently convincing the International Olympic Committee of its validity as a possible member, Minigolf must wait at least 7 years to even be considered for participation in a specific Olympics. These problems mean that it is unlikely, unless there is a massive surge in the world popularity of Minigolf that we will not see it as a part of the summer games until at least 2016, or 2020, if ever.

A more realistic goal for the WMF would be to seek inclusion in the World Games. The World Games are held every 4 years and are a celebration of some of the many sports such as Aikido, Racquetball, Billiards and Water Skiing, which do not have Olympic recognition. The World Games are recognised the world over as a good breeding ground for sports seeking Olympic entry mainly because, the World Games organisers, the International World Game Association (IWGA) remain

fredmie

Trampas wrote: »

putting course in Mount Juliet

The National Putting Championships are being held there on Sat, 13th September - entries are being taken until 3rd September but you have to get your club to authorise your entry.
See http://www.mountjuliet.ie/golf/putting.html for details on the course.