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Local Lad Frank Wins Fed 2020 Millenium Golf Croquet

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Frank Sharps Wins North West Federation 2020 Millennium Golf Croquet Tournament – Crake Valley Croquet Club 8 August 2020

Frank Sharps (Crake Valley)

On Saturday 8th August, in glorious sunshine and high temperatures, Crake Valley hosted the 2020 Golf Croquet Handicap Millennium competition.

The day got off to a bad start with news that 2 players from Chester had a punctured tyre on the M6 and had to turn back after it had been repaired.  Luckily, David Leach (Bury) and Sandra Cornes (Crake Valley) were present and agreed to fill the spaces. So we had 12 players from 5 clubs competing.

At the end of the group stage the semi finals took place. Frank Sharps (Crake Valley) beating Bernard Lord (Bury) 7-4 and Richard Leach (Bury) beating Peter Uglow (Pendle) 7-5.

The final was keenly and fairly contested. Frank used his 3 extra turns well and the match went to the 13th hoop.  Richard played a superb first shot to give sight of the hoop but couldn’t capitalise. After a short exchange of play Frank held his nerve to run the hoop and win 7-6. 

All players complemented the club for the quality of the lawns and the surrounding areas. The club thanked the players for making the competition a most enjoyable day.

The pictures show general play from the day and Frank with his celebratory drink.

Sandra Cornes reaches CA Golf Croquet Final

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National Golf Croquet ‘C’ Level Qualifier – Crake Valley Croquet Club – 26th July 2020

Sandra Cornes (left) and others in action at Crake C level.

Crake Valley hosted the first GC C level qualifier of 2020 on Sunday 26th July in overcast, but mainly, dry conditions. 10 players from 4 clubs attended and played some excellent croquet on the very well presented lawns. 

The group stage was cross block so all players played 5 games with the top 2 in each group moving to the semi final (Round 6) stage. Half the group games were won by a single hoop and were most interesting to watch.

In Group A:
Sandra Cornes (Crake Valley) won 4 out of 5 and Phil Snowden (Fylde) 3.

In Group B:
Frank Sharps (Crake Valley) won 4 and there were 3 players with 3 wins. John Armer (Westmorland) progressing with the best hoop difference.

In the semi finals:
Sandra beat Phil on the 13th hoop whilst Frank eased past John 7-1.

In the final:
It was evenly contested with Sandra coming out successful 7-5. Sandra qualifies to play at the National Finals in Colchester mid September.

Crake Valley Making a National Splash

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Crake Valley Players in National Finals
 

Players in the National Final at Hunstanton. David Cornes is first left on back row.

 
Crake Valley recently had 2 representatives playing in National Finals – After finishing 4th in the Northern Regional GC Final in August David Cornes had a late call up to play in the National GC Handicap Finals at Hunstanton on 22/23rd September. There where 14 finalists in a 2 day “all play all” format. David managed to win 7 out of his 13 matches and finished a very credible 8th position. A tremendous achievement with the highlight being a 7-4 victory against the runaway Champion Simon Carter (-3).
 
On the same weekend Sandra Cornes played in the C level finals in Nottingham – there were 16 finalists with Sandra being the highest handicapper in the field.  Despite this disadvantage Sandra still managed 3 wins so avoided finishing bottom. Given the short time Sandra has been playing to get to the finals and to win some games is a massive achievement.
 
Crake also has David Lloyd playing in the B levels finals this coming weekend at Camerton & Peasedown.
 
 

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