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.