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Medalists of strokeplay (up) and matchplay (down).  (Photo by M. Lindmayr & L. Gruber 2014)

News report by Günter Inmann:

The general class took also place at the same time as the Youth championships at the new courses in Voitsberg, Styria. Also the modus was the same. 4 rounds on every course for strokeplay, then 16 women and 32 men fighting in matchplay at Friday and Saturday.

In womens class it looked for a long time (until 6th round) for a fight between Gruber Lisa, Haberl Evelyn and Helm Jennifer, not counting with a good run of Heschl Birgit in last 3 rounds. At the end it was a tough match for gold between Lisa and Evelyn with a winning of Lisa with 228 (25,00/32,00) and 4 points before Evelyn with 232 (25,50/32,50) and another 10 before Birgit who overtook Jenny in last round for the bronze medal with 242 (27,00/33,50).

Mens class showed also a tough competition until the last round with an upcoming, but at the end unlucky player on 4th place. The results on eternit showed the difficulty of this course with a lot of red results and until the end no blue ones and just 2 times 20! The reigning Champion from 2013, Inmann Günter, was in top 3 from beginning and improved as longer the competition became. So Inmann Günter won with 203 (23,00/27,75) and 6 points before Westenthaler Rupert 209 (22,75/29,50) and Lindmayr Manfred 209 (21,50/30,75) which had to play sudden death for silver and bronze medal, which Rupert won. On fourth place, for a long time playing in top 3 for a medal in his first year in general class was Danner Markus with 213 (23,00/30,25).

In the matchplay of women there were all 3 medalists plus one big surprise named Schleich Viktoria, in half finals.

The several times Champion Gruber Lisa went into final with a run of 9:1, 8:3 and 5:4, playing against Heschl Birgit, she had matches of 6:3, 8:3 and 7:6. After a great start of Birgit and a 3:0 after 9 eternit lanes Lisa fighted back and won 6:4 and took the double of stroke – and matchplay for first time in Austrian female minigolf history. In the small final the surprise of the competition Schleich Viktoria (13th of 18 women in strokeplay!) showed her best to take the bronze medal with a 6:2 against the reigning World Champion Haberl Evelyn!

The mens class showed an impressive winning of Weber Heinz with just big wins of 7:3, 8:4, 6:1, 7:0 and at least 5:2 in the final against again second placed Westenthaler Rupert who came into final with 7:1, 4:0, 3:1 and 5:3. The small final was an unlucky fight for the 4th placed Steiner Adriano. He was leading 4:2 before last 3 lanes on felt and at the end he lost all 3 lanes and bronze medal against Lackner Andreas with a 4:5.

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