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World Crazy Golf Championships

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Oct 29 2007

Crazy golfers and super-heroes demonstrated their putting prowess on the weekend for a shot at becoming the World Crazy Golf Champion. 87 contestants negotiated two 18 hole courses, with obstacles that included a windmill, a waterwheel and a lighthouse for a place on the leader-board, after the first day of competition on the seafront in Hastings, East Sussex. Organised by the BMGA this years event attracted visitors from as far afield as Finland and the Czech Republic, but it was the local players who know every hole inside out, that were hot favourites to walk away with the £1,000 prize. […]

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The vast majority of posts in this blog are about quirky & eccentric competitions & festivals. I started it in 2006 in France with a competition I’ll never forget. Where contestants battle it out to become the World Champion Pig Squeeler, or ‘Cri du Cochon’. I had little knowledge back then of quite how far my pursuit of these kind of events would lead me. I’ve travelled all over Britain (and occasionally further afield) to capture our curiosities and quirks. There’s nothing uniquely eccentric about the British, you’ll find people all over the world up to all sorts of weird and wonderful activities, but we do have a remarkable capacity to embrace the madness. ‘A Brit Different’ is the book that was born from it, my labour of love! So what next? There’s always something interesting going on, so watch this space, only time will tell!

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