{"id":627759,"date":"2026-06-08T16:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627759\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T16:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:07:09","slug":"new-champion-named-at-world-crazy-golf-championship-in-hastings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627759\/","title":{"rendered":"New champion named at World Crazy Golf Championship in Hastings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chapman, from Canterbury, had been hoping to make history and become the first player to win six titles at the event over 5-7 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nicknamed &#8220;The Force&#8221;, he also attempted to win the world title three years in a row when he competed this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the final round, which Tompkins described as &#8220;very close&#8221;, Chapman, Bullin and the third finalist, David Woodcock, played under &#8220;crazy crazy rules&#8221; &#8211; this is the only round in the competition where all three players&#8217; balls are in play simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the prior six rounds, one player plays until the ball is in the hole, then it is the next player&#8217;s turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chapman, from Canterbury, had been hoping to make history and become the first player to win six titles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-627759","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\/627759","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=627759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}