We have received with great sadness the news about passing away of Gerhard Snaga, who died last week at the age of 82. Gerhard was 1980-1988 Sport Director of IBGV, predecessor of WMF, and he has also been nominated as honorary member of WMF. Already in the early 1980’s he was a key person when two international minigolf federations (concrete and miniaturegolf organizations) unified to one federation which today is called World Minigolf Sport Federation.

Gerhard had also received the nomination as honorary President of German Minigolfsport Federation (DMV). For international minigolfers a very important achievement among others was being one of the driving forces behind the minigolf centre in Bad Münder in his home region. From 2002 until 2004 he was head of the organization of the very successful series of International Championships in Bad Münder.

Our thoughts are with Gerhard’s family and especially with his wife Herma, who always accompanied Gerhard to the international events, where the congenial couple were always very welcome guests.  

World Minigolf Sport Federation
Dr. Gerhard Zimmermann
President

Horní Bezděkov, Czech Republic – On June 16 and 17, 2018, the best adventure minigolfers from around the world came to the Adventure Golf Horní Bezděkov – course “Za Scrubem” to participate in the 2018 World Adventure Golf Masters (WAGM).

95 registered participants from 15 different countries competed over the two days, including many European countries and minigolfers from as far away as Australia, New Zealand, Ghana and the United States.

As well as there being an overall winner, decided at the end of a final round where the top 18 players competed; there were winners in the Junior; Senior Male; Senior woman; Woman and Male categories.

Junior - Jan Donini - Czech Republic - Juniors

Senior Male - Michal Stach - Czech Republic - Senior Men

Vanette Block - USA- Senior Women

Veronika Reed - Czech Republic - Women

Daniel Vlcek - Czech Republic - Men

Overall WAGM 2018 Champion - Daniel Moser - Switzerland

In addition to being crowned the best adventure minigolfer in the world, this year also features a partnership with the Major Series of Putting (MSOP) where the individual with the lowest score in WAGM will get a $1,000 entry into the Turbo Singles Championship at this year’s MSOP Championships in Las Vegas.

Daniel Moser not only took away the gold medal and trophy, but also entry to the MSOP event in Las Vegas, later in the year.

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Youth Minigolf in Turkey

Something big is happening in Turkey right now regarding Youth Minigolf! Within the first 18 weeks of 2018, approximately 105,000 students have played and practised Minigolf from 113 schools in Istanbul, so far. What an amazing initiative going on, involving schools and the youth players. This initiative is called the 9th İstanbul Mini Golf Festival and this is a festival that will be going on for a couple of months.

Bosphorus Golf Club have completed the first part of the 9th İstanbul Mini Golf Festival this month. Below you will find some amazing statistics of the activities so far and what the plans are for the rest of 2018: 

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Photo credit - Adventure Golf, Horni Bezdekov

Horní Bezděkov, Czech Republic – On June 16 and 17, 2018, the best adventure minigolfers from around the world will descend on Adventure Golf Horní Bezděkov – course “Za Scrubem” to participate in the 2018 World Adventure Golf Masters (WAGM).  The WAGM is the largest international tournament to be played on the Minigolf Open Standard (MOS) style course, which most social players from around the world will recognize as being similar to their own local adventure style courses (no fantasy obstacles).  This course is the first adventure golf course introduced in the Czech Republic and will celebrate its ten-year anniversary in 2019.

The tournament currently has 95 registered participants from 15 different countries, including many European countries and minigolfers from as far away as Australia, New Zealand, Ghana and the United States. Participants are looking forward to the magnificent log house and homemade food at the course and will be cheered on by a mascot throughout the tournament.

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