15 Sep 2008 at 14:44 | Published by: JJM | Views: 6730 | News search

This year’s most important European tournament on Open System minigolf courses, the British Open, was played on 13-14 September in Margate, United Kingdom.

Mattias Ståhl of Sweden continued the tradition of foreign domination on British soil, winning the competition with a one point margin to silver medalist Björn Dinau, also from Sweden.

The champion of 2007 and 2005, Jouni Valkjärvi of Finland, was left third this year, 7 points behind Dinau, and one point ahead of Norbert Rehfeld of Germany in fourth place. Two British players reached the top ten: Andy Exall in 5th place, and John McIver in 9th place.

British Open is played on Minigolf Open System (MOS) courses of British-American style, with a felt carpet and freely designed shapes and obstacles.

archive photos from 2007 by Sean & Marion Homer

Top 12 of British Open: 2008 01.    STÅHL Mattias 02.    DINAU Björn 03.    VALKJÄRVI Jouni 04.    REHFELD Norbert 05.    EXALL Andy 06.    KJELLSTRÖM Torgny 07.    AHLANDER Johan 08.    SPETZ Carl-Johan 09.    McIVER John 10.    PROKOPOVÁ Olivia 11.    BULLIN Bill 12.    HEIN Karsten 2007 01.    VALKJÄRVI Jouni 02.    STÅHL Mattias 03.    SELJELID Eirik 04.    KJELLSTRÖM Torgny 05.    HEIN Karsten 06.    PROKOPOVÁ Olivia 07.    REHFELD Norbert 08.    DINAU Björn 09.    HARDING Chris 10.    BULLIN Bill 11.    DAVIES Tim 12.    MENDIK Petr 2006 01.    HEIN Karsten 02.    VALKJÄRVI Jouni 03.    DAVIES Tim 04.    OLOFSSON Hans 05.    KJELLSTRÖM Torgny 06.    DINAU Björn 07.    LINDHOLM Julius 08.    ŠPIDRA Marek 09.    HARDING Chris 10.    KELLARD Keith 11.    WÜTRICH Marcus 12.    PARR Peter 2005 01.    VALKJÄRVI Jouni 02.    CASELIN Mirko 03.    RANTALA Toni 04.    KUHN André 05.    DIBERNARDI Antonio 06.    HARDING Chris 07.    McIVER John 08.    CONSONNI Carlo 09.    KELLARD Keith 10.    del BIANCO Marco 11.    SHEPHERD Brad 12.    PARR Peter

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