05 Apr 2009 at 15:38 | Published by: JJM | Views: 9104 | News search

Carl-Johan Ryner at window, Sandra Weaver at labyrinth.  (Photo by EBGS webcam 2009)

The traditional winners of Eskilstuna Marathon, Lars Brown & Peter Samuelsson, played a blue total score, as they have done every year since 2007. But this year it was not enough to come anywhere near victory, as Anders Olsson and Carl-Johan Ryner showed why they have dominated minigolf world rankings during this decade. With team average 18.96, Olsson & Ryner left Brown & Samuelsson to second place with a margin of 14 points.

The best player of the competition was Lars Brown, however, with average 18.86. His historically solid set of 14 rounds included only one non-blue round: 19 21 19 18 18 19 19 18 18 19 19 19 19 19. Brown’s last 12 rounds might the longest row of blue rounds (under 20 points) in the history of eternite competitions anywhere in the world.

Anders Olsson was second best player, scoring 13 rounds with average 18.92. His pair Carl-Johan Ryner scored one point more in 13 rounds, with average 19.00. (Ryner gave some handicap to the other players, by playing the extremely tight labyrinth straight, without using the wall shot, which gives a greater margin for error. Ryner missed the straight shot twice, which cost him the title of best player of the competition.)

Hans Olofsson & Alf Pettersson were third in the competition, with team average 20.19. Olofsson was the fourth best player of the tournament, with personal average 19.91.

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