MOS:

general infos:
the beton course is located in the hotel garden. I’ve mentioned the huge height differences in my previous post, which makes this course physical extreme difficult, especially for coaches. There is a lot of shadow, but you may expect some leaves falling from the trees. The lanes are around 10-12 meters long and they are all very aslope, so you must practice putting and saving shots as well. The surface of the courses is cement, painted to green. It was in good condition, prepared for this tournament. Some lanes have new metal borders, while the others have big white border ducts around. These are generally ok, however they may result sometimes unconstant bounds at small balls. There are two crucial lanes, where you can easily loose several points – the two volcanos. They are around 4 times bigger than the normal at the end of lane eight, horizontal and vertical respectively.

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Hi everybody!

I’m just back home from the nice city of Sochi, where I had the luck to take part of Sochi Open ’09.
First of all I have to say thanks to minigolfnews.com and the organizer ‘Olympyisky Dagomys Hotel and Minigolf Club for providing me a free stay for the competition.
The travelling team contained Austrian national players Berger-Rella Lisa and Berger Markus, Austrian Junior head coach Hannes Hahsler, Berger Ilse and Christian Adler also from Austria, and me and my father, István from Hungary.

I promised to write my impressions about the trip, but I realized, that it is almost impossible to write everything in a blog. So I decided to share some useful infos with you, especially for those, who are travelling to Sochi next year. In this post you can find general infos about the place, and in the other one specifically about the lanes.

We arrived on the 5th of October to Sochi by the direct flight from Vienna.... Read more »