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| The last details are being put into place for the Minigolf World Championships which will take place this August from the 11th to the 25th. The anticipation to see the world's best minigolf players is growing and about to come to an end as this competition quickly approaches |
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(07/10/07)
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The final touches and arrangements for the 2007 Minigolf World Championships are being made and put into action this week for the international minigolf event that will take place in Italy this August, from the 11th to the 25th. The Minigolf World Championships, to be played out in Canegrate (Milan), is the biggest global event of this particular discipline, which, if truth be told, even within the hosting Nation minigolf is not widely known as a serious competitive sport (as with many other parts of the world), but instead is thought of more as a family pastime. However, the numbers given out by the World Minigolf Federation (WMF), located in Bern, Switzerland, attest that there are over 300 million casual players in Europe alone, 5 million in the US, 800
thousand in Australia, 4.8 million in Asia, and moreover, world wide there are 40,000 registered professional players according to the WMF.
The World Minigolf Championships will kick off on Saturday the 11th of August with the unofficial training: the players, who will be arriving from over 20 different countries worldwide will have the opportunity to practice on those same courses which will be used for the competition. While from the 17th to the 21st of August the official training period is programmed, with the more than 200 participants being divided into two training groups to practice alternatively in the morning and afternoon. Then on Monday the 20th of August the competition will officially be called to a start at the opening ceremony,
scheduled to take place at the historic medieval Castle San Giorgio in the neighbouring town of Legnano. And finally, on Wednesday the 22nd of August the day all minigolf players and fans alike have been eagerly waiting for will have finally arrived, the 2007 world competition will officially take off at 8am and last until the 25th of August. This much anticipated tournament will be divided into four sub-categories: men’s team, women’s team, men’s singles and women’s singles. All team play will be completed by Friday, while on Saturday, the last day of the competition, the best of the best will be fighting it out for one of the coveted positions on the podium in addition to the chance to be known as one of the world’s best minigolf players.
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