 The Nordhaug Golf Course The European FootGolf Trophy Tour (EFTT) has two stages at the same time this weekend, one in France, and one in Norway. The Scandinavian cup is unique, It is not usual to find a golf course in a capital city. There will be two different courses to play on Saturday and on Sunday. “I have jetlag, and I am not happy with my performance in the last week. But we can learn a lot from that professional organization” - said Lasse Eriksen, the president of the Norwegian federation, who attended the US Pro-Am Tour 2015 East Coast Series. From Friday to Sunday Oslo will host great footgolfers from Europe. The president added, the cup is going to be placed on two different courses. “Lommedalen and Nordhaug golf courses will be the home of FootGolf for this weekend. We have great facilities, that’s why we are sharing the tournament between the two courses. I think, it will bring fresh air for the sport, because it has never done before. The location is ideal, because it is twenty minutes far from the city. It has a nice landscape among the mountains and hills. Every hole’s positions are different and exciting.” Lasse Eriksen admitted, it is not easy to invite the players to Norway for this weekend. “There is the French stage also, and they have better weather conditions. It is spring here now. It can be 20-25 degrees, but it is possible to have 10-15 degrees this weekend. Also it is not as expensive as the biggest capital cities in the world.” The Norwegian president talked about their National Team. “It is an important weekend for us. This cup is qualifying for the World Cup. We have talented young players, who have come to the courses, and have beaten us, so I hope, we can achieve great results in Oslo. The registration is not closed yet, but there will be about 60-70 players from countries like Italy, UK, Spain, Holland, Switzerland and Hungary.” European FootGolf Trophy Tour 2015 29th–31th May – Lommedalen and Nordhaug golf courses, Norway 29th–31th May – Golf Parc Robert Hersant, France  The Lommedalen Golf Course
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 Golf Parc Robert Hersant The European FootGolf Trophy Tour (EFTT) continues with two stages at the same time. This weekend Norway and France are going to host the best players from all around the world. The two-day competition is going to be placed in two different courses in France, near Paris. Golf Parc Robert Hersant is one of the top five golf courses in Europe. It’s owner spent millions of Euros to be very unique. For example, there are many kind of trees, that does not exist anymore, but can be found there. From 29th May (practice day) to 31st May there will be (one of) the next stage of the EFTT. Beside Norway, this weekend France welcome more than one hundred players from all around the world, not just from Europe. A few Argentine players are flying across the ocean to compete against the best Europeans after the South Americans showed their strength in the US Pro-Am Tour in Florida. Romuald Pretot, president of FootGolf France declares, they want to organize one of the best tournament in the history: “We are doing things, that have never done before. There will be a livescore system, everyone can follow the results hole by hole everywhere and on a large screen in front of the club house. This Open will be the first event to take place with the last generation of golf carts. Seventy small cars equipped with a GPS and with a plan of every hole of the golf course will be provided. More than 18 plans of water to be crossed, amazing and magnificent holes, and a lot of activities for the accompanying persons are also planned on the spot on this 110 hectare golf course.” The competition will take place exceptionally on two different courses of footgolf named after Michel Platini and Tiger Woods on 18-18 holes planned especially for that occasion. There will be a few ex-professional footballers on the course. The former French internationals, Olivier Dacourt (Roma, Internazionale) Frédéric Déhu (PSG, OM, C Barcelona) and Reynald Pedros (OM, Lyon, Napoli, Parma) are going to compete against the best footgolfers. The French president suggested, that we could focus on David Hamed, who has just started to play FootGolf this year, and reached three podiums on three appearances. Romuald Pretot added, his country”s situation is not easy in some ways: “Seven strong players from our national team will miss the cup for personal reasons, but I hope some of the others can reach the top ten. It is not the best date for us, because there are national competitions and the EFTT-stage in Norway at the same time too, and the players have to choose among the competitions. We would like to host them as well as we can to welcome them and others again next year.” European FootGolf Trophy Tour 2015 29th–31th May – Golf Parc Robert Hersant, France 29th–31th May – Lommedalen and Nordhaug golf courses, Norway  David Hamed collecting prizes  The second stage of the US Pro-Am Tour 2015 has finished on Sunday. Within a week, Christian Otero won another international tournament.
After winning the Inter-American FootGolf Trophy in Miami a few days ago, Christian Otero (ARG) won the first edition of the Atlantic FootGolf Cup at PGA VIllage, Port St Lucie. He was in good position after the first day, but on Sunday he played minus ten (final score: 130 on par 144). After this performance, he has beaten Gyorgy Podusil (HUN, 138) by eight. The bronze medal went to Carlos Romero, another Argentine player. Christian Otero said after winning the competition, he had learnt how to play under pressure: “I believe I have the capacity to be focused in the right moment. It was a fantastic morning. Very solid, no mistakes. I couldn't dreamed so perfec. I´m very happy with such a performance competing against the best players in the world! I´m not unbeatable, but I can not imagine to play better than today, I think I have reached the maximum I can give on a golf course.” Lillie Bewley (USA) was the best among women, while Carlos Romero won the senior category. All the results can be find HERE. The US Pro-Am Tour 2015 moves to the west coast. Tacoma and Sacramento is going to be the home of the next two stages in August.  The federation in Poland was founded at the end of 2014. FootGolf Poland has big plans. Roman Fedorczuk says: they can built on the five million footballers. Interview with the Polish president. After founding the federation in Poland, what is the situation now? We have one golf course, we can use for playing FootGolf. Postolowo Golf & Country Club is one of the oldest Polish golf courses and most spectacular, rated best in Poland in 2014 and on the list of 100 best courses in Europe. It is in the area of Gdansk, on the Baltic coast. Not only local players use the course, we have had visitors from London and Scandinavia, also members of Polish national football team have been playing FootGolf at Postolowo. First Warsaw Golf & Country Club is building a nine-hole course (in addition to the exisiting 18 holes) and FootGolf will be there, sometime this year. Here, in Warsaw, we will start national marketing and promotion. Is it hard to promote this new sport? The first step is to get more courses to accept us as a new sport. We are leaders in golf promotion in Poland, but introducing new sport is not an easy task. It is developing slowly. FootGolf can help to multiply the number of participants in the golf houses. There are 3000-5000 golfers in Poland. It is a very low number considering that golf was introduced to Poland in 1990. With FootGolf we can easily double that number within three years. Polish golf owners are afraid of that golfers will not accept FootGolfers. Aproximately five million people know how to play football in my country, it is a huge base for our sport. Think about it, if just one percent of them will play FootGolf… What are the plans? We have a FootGolf league including approximately eighty people. First national FootGolf championship will take place in July, and in September we are going to hold Polish FootGolf Open Championship, hopefully with many international player. We are also getting ready for the World Cup, but it is expensive for individuals to participate from Poland, so we are looking for Polish football players in USA. There is a huge Polish community and I hope I can convince them to play under the Polish flag. But there is also polish community in Argentina so the chances are good to have a Polish Team there.   Eleven Argentinian finished in the best 20 on the first stage of the US Pro-Am FootGolf Tour 2015 in Miami. On the Melreese Country Club Christian Otero was unbeatable. The next round is going to hold this weekend.
This year’s Pro-Am Tour has started. The biggest cash purse-event of the world has four stages, first of these was held in Melreese Country Club, Miami. After the two-day tournament Christian Otero (ARG) was the best. After finishing the first day with score 70 (par 72), on Tuesday he had an amazing game scoring 65 and grabbing the gold medal and the 5.000 dollars. He said after the celebration: “It was a very good morning that I had on Tuesday because I did not commit any mistakes and I was very focused from start till the end. I think concentration was the key and making right decisions about when to take risk and when not. It was not easy at all, but I think it was one of the best days, since I have been playing footgolf.”’ His eleven countrymen finished in the top 20, while Nicolas Garcia and Sebastian Pelliccioni finished 2nd and 3rd. “I am proud that Argentina is showing in every international tournament that we have many of the best players in the world. I believe I have to go step by step. Now the target is the Pro-Am of St Lucie. The World Cup is still some months away and there are many important tournaments until January.” All the results can be find HERE. The East Coast Series next round is going to be placed in Florida too, in Port St. Lucie on May 22-23-24.  Melreese Country Club More than seventy players from more than fifteen countries with the biggest cash purse in the world. The US Pro-Am FootGolf Tour 2015 starts in South Florida this Sunday. The tour starts on the East Coast at International Links Miami - Melreese Country Club, Miami, Florida on May 17-18-19, 2015 and will close at St. Lucie Trail Golf Club, PGA Village, Port St. Lucie, Florida on May 22-23-24. Each tournament will offer a cash purse of US $17,500 as well as other trophies and awards. Both tournaments are individual competitions with multiple categories and prizes will include cash for the top performances at each tournament. CATEGORY MEN / 18 to 45 years old.
  Nemanja Nikolcs, the top goalscorer of the league After winning the Hungarian Football Championship four games before the end, Videoton FC celebrated their second national title with a team building FootGolf event in Kisoroszi. On the Hungarian Golf Club’s course one of their defenders was the best.
Four games left from the Hungarian Championship, but Videoton FC secured their first position. After winning the title on Sunday, the team from Székesfehérvár went to Kisoroszi on Monday to try FootGolf for the very first time. Roland Juhász has already played it, when the national team visited the course in Kisoroszi in 2011 and 2013. The defender told to magyarfootgolf.hu, that it was a different game as he regularly played on the football field, but it was perfect for relaxation and team building. Nemanja Nikolics, the top goalscorer in the championship, said: “It is a great hobby, I hope I will find some spare time to visit the course again.” Joan Carrillo, the coach of the team added: “We had a busy schedule with important matches and hard trainings. It was like a football game. Players had to concentrate and they rivalised a bit of course. It was important before the final games and the cup final with Ferencváros.” After playing on nine holes, the best player was Paulo Vinícius, the Brazilian defender with score 35 (par -1).  It is already known, that after the bidding process, the second World Cup will be held in Argentina. Now, it is official, it will take place between 7th and 10th January 2016. After winning the chance to organize the next World Cup, Argentina confirmed, it will be at the end of this year or at the beginning of 2016. We announce it officially, that the final date is 7th-10th January 2016. Pilar Golf Club is hosting the event. It is one of the top courses in Argentina next to Buenos Aires.  |
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