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Review of the last European Championships in 2001.
2-4 June 2001, Norway. review

Course Owner, Toby Green, puts you in the picture...
Through the soggy autumn months Britain's best course designers have been re-thinking how best to adapt the existing courses to accommodate a 'full house' of 144 players next summer.

Key changes so far:
Goolagong Dip, the infamous Goolagong basket has been moved 3 metres from the water's edge, so we can look forward to plenty of quacking at those who fall short! For those who haven't seen this hole, imagine a tee some 40 metres above a pond needing a drive of around 100 metres to clear the water. Go right and you're in a mass of trees. Go too far and you're in trees. Go
left and you're either wet or in more trees. Enjoy!

Bowling's Hill, Beaminster View, John's Gate are all to be played backwards, so we end up attacking Minn's Gate from near the old green of John's Gate. That's a blind drive through a gap that's six metres wide, 25 metres from the tee. If you drove straight and level for 100 metres your disc would be about 30 metres above the basket. You figure it out!

Badger's Hotel: you are on the top of a steep slope in a wood. There's a stream running parallel to the throw about 25 metres below on your right at the bottom of the slope. The basket is only about 50 metres in front, but to get there you need to drive through a 1.75 metre gap between two trees which are roughly 12 metres from the tee. Who's going to get the ace?

The course is covered in snow at the moment, but in February work starts to level tees and greens and make all the improvements needed to make the course worthy of being the venue for the European Championship. We're looking forward to it.

EC2003 - The Best Of Europe
The European Championships 2003 will bring together the best players in Europe.

Tournament Website
This website will be the main source for information and announcements. The site is currently undergoing construction. Please join our mailing list so we can inform you when it goes live.

Tournament Location Beaminster, Dorset, England. 130 miles / 212 Km West of London. link to map/route planner The Courses Whitcombe - 2 x 18 hole courses. The 'Ancient' and the 'Modern'

"two of the most beautiful disc golf courses in the World" - Brian Sullivan, DISCTV.

"this is just heaven" - Shawn Sinclair USA (winner of Whitcombe Classic 2002).


Links to Whitcombe course photographs:
Whitcombe Classic Aug 2002
British Open July 2001
Frostbreaker Feb 2001
British Open Aug 1999 & British Open Aug 2000

Links to recent tournaments at Whitcombe:
A Classic Whitcombe Classic Aug 2002
Frostbreaker Feb 2002
British Open July 2001
Frostbreaker Feb 2001
British Open July 2000
Frostbreaker Feb 2000

EC2003 Tournament Schedule
Thursday 31 July (pm) - round 1
Friday 1 August - round 2 + round 3
Saturday 2 August - round 4 + semi final
Sunday 3 August (am) - Finals

Tournament Qualification
European residents only.
A guide to player residency is being written. When ready it will be published on this website.
Field size - 144 players maximum.

Each country has been allocated a quota of places based on the strength of the sport in that country. For example, Sweden is recognised as the strongest disc golf nation in Europe, therefore Sweden has been allocated the largest quota of places in the tournament.
The quota attributed to each country is being finalised. When ready it will be published on this website.

In the case of a country's players out-numbering the places they have been allocated, the National Association of that country will be requested to select the players they wish to compete.

Once the site is live, we advise all players interested in competing to 'apply' through the registration process, regardless of whether they expect to be nominated by their National Association.'

Player Registration
Key registration dates and procedure are to be confirmed. When ready these will be published on this website.

Player Divisions
We will give players the chance to register in the following divisions. However the Tournament Committee reserves the right to withdraw a division if an insufficent number of players register in it - Open, Women, Master, Grand Master, Junior.

Accommodation + Travel
Our transport and accomodation officers are currently researching the possible options available to players travelling to and staying in Beaminster. Their findings will be published shortly.

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