{"id":620301,"date":"2026-06-04T06:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620301\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T06:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:40:08","slug":"kents-marc-chapman-aims-to-win-sixth-world-crazy-golf-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620301\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent&#8217;s Marc Chapman aims to win sixth World Crazy Golf Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chapman said it took him 10 years of practising and experience to win his first world title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s all about being methodical, learning the courses and being able to putt consistently,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chapman, a former fencing coach, said he was &#8220;privileged&#8221; to represent Great Britain in mini golf tournaments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mini golf is a scaled-down version of golf which focuses on putting, while crazy golf features courses with unconventional obstacles &#8211; such as moving windmills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Crazy Golf World Championships is due to take place at Hastings Adventure Golf from Friday to Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chapman said it took him 10 years of practising and experience to win his first world title. &#8220;It&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-620301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620301","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=620301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}