Dears minigolf friends

Today, it's my first blog on this new wonderful website. I decided to speak about the surroundings during the international tournaments. Please, be indulgent with me because I'm not fluent in english, so I will try to do my best.

For me, minigolf is a real sport but unfortunatly, in my country (France), minigolf is not recognized as a sport by the public but also by the government. So, we never obtain financial help to go in the international tournaments. But for me, it's really a chance to go to these championships and to meet the best minigolf players of the world.

Even if I try to play my best minigolf during these championships, I will never obtain wonderful results because the germans, austrians, swedish, swiss players are better than me and the trainin structure is really better with very good coaches. So, I try to obtain a plce in the Top32 but it's not easy for me.

During the championships, I hope also to meet and discuss with the others players but I don't know why, I found the surroudings is not very good during the training and the tournaments. Of course, it's really serious and the top players need to be calm but I think it's alway possible to discuss 5 minutes without disturbing the training.

Of course, the french players dont speak german and they speak a bad english but I think it's possible to discuss with this bad english. In fact, the top players speak together probably because they meet themself very often (international meeting, europa cup, nations cup, ...) and they dont try to speak with the players of the small minigolf country.

For exemple, I meet an international player each year during the winter in Italy and we spoke together and when I met him in Tampere last year, he dont speak with me during 15 days because he was coach of the swedish team and it was only the monday after the competition, when I was wanting my plane to return in France that he spoke with me because he wasn't in the swedish team, he was also waiting his plane. I cant understand this attitude. I think a great minigolf player will be a player able to obtain good result but also a player open to discuss with the other player.

I hope to discuss with you in Danmark if I can play the world championship.

Philippe