{"id":501898,"date":"2026-03-29T14:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T14:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501898\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T14:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T14:21:11","slug":"record-turnout-for-british-minigolf-championships-in-margate-the-isle-of-thanet-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501898\/","title":{"rendered":"Record turnout for British Minigolf Championships in Margate \u2013 The Isle of Thanet News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"British Minigolf Championships at Strokes<\/p>\n

Some 55 players took part in the 2026 British Minigolf Championships at Strokes in Margate, <\/a>\u00a0playing over 7 rounds across last weekend. It was a record turnout.<\/p>\n

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The Overall and Men\u2019s Champion was Adam Kelly. He made history by winning without dropping a single shot (not scoring any worse than a 2 on any hole). His final winning margin was a huge 16 shots! Across the entire tournament, Adam recorded 37 hole-in-ones.<\/p>\n

Marc Chapman was 2nd\u00a0in the Men\u2019s category, with last year\u2019s Champion, Seve Kukielka, in 3rd<\/p>\n

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The Women\u2019s Champion was Ruth Sturdy, winning it for the 14th\u00a0time. She finished ahead of Rachel King (2nd), and Shelley Cooper (3rd)<\/p>\n

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The Senior\u2019s Title was retained by Jon Angel, with Martin Greenhead 2nd, and Brad Ames 3rd<\/p>\n

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In the Super Senior Category Richard Jones was victorious, with James Teubler 2nd\u00a0and Mark Wood 3rd<\/p>\n

A total of \u00a3700 was awarded in prize money, along with 3 trophies, one silver salver, and 12 medals<\/p>\n

Leaderboard, all scores and statistics can be found here:\u00a0https:\/\/bmga.online\/results\/2026\/BC26\/result.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

For more information about the British Minigolf Association (BMGA) Tour and competitive minigolf, where to play, or how to join a minigolf club, visit\u00a0https:\/\/bmga.online\/<\/a>. Newcomers are always welcome<\/p>\n

The BMGA Tour is sponsored by course designers and builders,\u00a0https:\/\/urbancrazy.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British Minigolf Championships at Strokes Some 55 players took part in the 2026 British Minigolf Championships at Strokes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-501898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}