CSIT (International Workers and Amateurs in Sports Confederation) is an IOC recognized organization with a history of more than 100 years; for more information please check the according website www.csit.tv.
WMF President Dr. Gerhard Zimmermann and EMF President Victor Condeco took part at the annual CSIT congress in Tortosa / Catalonia on invitation of CSIT and presented the minigolf sport with all relevant facts.
To follow the LIVE results of the Youth World Championships 2018, played in Cheb (CZE) please click on the link below:
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.
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:
