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Olympic thoughts
02 Mar 2010 at 20:15 | Posted in: General | Views: 5602 | Comments: 3
Olympic thoughts
Oliver Mittler examining his first minigolf putter.

We have reached March 2010 already, without any minigolf blogs written yet in this year.

Some of us have keenly followed the Winter Olympics in the past weeks. Ice hockey (the ice version of hockey), ice dancing (the ice version of dancing) etc. Where is the ice version of golf or minigolf? Nobody has suggested them for the Winter Olympics, I guess...

Winter Olympics have a more modern atmosphere than Summer Olympics: they have adopted many new youthful sports, such as snowboarding and freestyle skiing. Summer Olympics is a five times bigger event than Winter Olympics, and their routine excuse is "we cannot grow any bigger than this", when new sports ask to join the Summer Olympics. But Winter Olympics is not too big yet, they still have a lot of space for new ice or snow sports to join the action.

Jacques Rogge, the Chairman of International Olympic Committee, complained to the press that women's ice hockey is not competitive enough, the sport must grow, or then it will be omitted from Winter Olympics in the future. I greatly enjoyed the bronze match Finland vs. Sweden though, but the Olympic Committee doesn't like the dominant role of two superstar countries in the sport: USA and Canada. It spoils the excitement of the sport event, if two super favourites steal the show every time.

Somehow this reminds me of the situation in minigolf. Germany and Sweden steal the show every time, with the magic touch of 1000 special balls, chalk and some spit on the walls if necessary. Many of us have have gotten bored long ago.

If I live long enough to see WMF arrange major international championships on adventure golf courses, with a golf ball only, the team competition will probably be tighter and more exciting than ever before. More countries have a realistic chance to fight for the medals. Sounds bad, if you think about it from the German perspective. But sounds good from the Olympic Committee perspective: the show must offer more excitement than just two super favourites deciding the gold between themselves.

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United States of America PatPenguin (Patrick Sheridan) | Delete

04 Mar 2010 at 19:54
As someone who has only ever played competitions on adventure golf courses, with a normal golf ball, in America, the idea appeals to me. However, I understand that at the same time we should be sharpening our skills in the other styles of minigolf. The difficulty (for some of us Americans at least) is that the competitive side of miniature golf is not as big or as accessible as we'd like it to be. Now, I understand that we have a lot of folks who play a lot of national and international tournaments, but it is clear that we don't treat the sport in the same way as some other countries. In any case, I would just love to see miniature golf as an olympic sport and having those two big superpowers give us something to shoot for (we like being underdogs - see 1980 Olympic hockey). I know I always look at it as a challenge when taking on players who are much better than me - so bring on the Swedes and the Germans :)

I'd also agree with Chabee...if you're good with a putter, you're going to be good with a putter no matter what the course/ball/circumstances in the long term.

Austria bub74 (Markus Berger) | Delete

03 Mar 2010 at 16:35
... said by someone, who derives from a country which has no big minigolf history!
I reward Chabbee´s comment with 10 points in the class sportsmanship!

Hungary Chabee (Csaba Pálinkás) | Delete

03 Mar 2010 at 15:56
Hi,

i don't wanna hurt here anyone, but i couldn't resist to write my opinion here. These nations don't win because of the 1000 balls, and especially because the magic chalk... I haven't seen yet a swedish player to spit on the felt-wall before a spin shot! :) I'm sure, if we'd play with one ball on a fair course, the same players would be on the top long-term.

Instead of making excuses, all rising minigolf players should study the swing technique and enthusiasm of these top players, because this is, in which they are really better than the others!

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