All games will be played in a tournamnent style. For each game that is played, you must win in order to advance to the next round. Therefore, if you do not win, you are to be disqualified from the game competion. For each team game, there will be two players assigned to each team. One team member must be blind or visually impaired and the other must serve as the guide. For each individual game, contestants must be blind or visually impaired and others must wear a blindfold. There will be three winning spots for each game being 1st place [gold], 2nd place [silver], and 3rd place [bronze].
Meet at the Havana Bar between the times of 11:00 AM and 11:45 AM on October 28th to register for the Wisdom 4 The Blind Olympic Games and learn the rules of all of the events.
The Tee Time Mini Golf competition will take place on October 28th from 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM at the mini gold course.
In Wisdom's Tee Time With Mini Golf competition, there will be 9 holes. Each player will have the opportunity to make an initial shot before anyone takes a second shot. Each team will have up to 2 players and 1 must be blind or visually impaired, as the other must be blindfolded. Each hole will have a limit of 6 shots and after those 6 shots, you will move on to the next hole whether the ball made it in the hole or not. The team that lands the ball closest to the hole or in the hole putts first at the next hole. If your teams ball goes off of the course, you or your team member must place it back where it veered off with a 1-stroke penalty, which substracts 1 from the 6 shots that your team is able to take at 1 hole. The team that held the lowest number of strokes at each hole combined wins the game.
Wisdom's Tee Time With Mini Golf:
Objective: Players and their teammate must place the puttball into as many holes as they can.
Game type: Team game
Number of players: 2 [per team]
Number of holes: 9
Players: Players can be blind or visually impaired; others must compete with a blind fold