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James Thomas Wins Bronze and Silver and a Trophy!

5 August 2019 by Jean Hargreaves

Bury Croquet Club AC Handicap Tournament 3-4thAugust 2019

12 players entered this tournament both from home and also from far afield of Huddersfield, Worcester and Penmaenmawr! Handicaps ranged from -1 to 18.

We had a lovely weekend with only a few drops of the threatened wet stuff on Sunday!

On Saturday play was in 3 blocks all play all. This was followed on Sunday by playoffs between the top players in the blocks and the best of the second place players. The other players played in a Consolation event, playing 2 games against people they hadn’t played before.

James Thomas (Llanfairfechan), who only started playing croquet 12 months ago and that was Golf Croquet,  was on top form. He won all his games +25, +24, +14, +18 and + 26 to win the tournament and also gained his Bronze and Silver merit awards in the process!

Everyone enjoyed the weekend whatever their own results.

Congratulations again James and best wishes for your future in croquet.

Report by Jean Hargreaves

2019, Bury, News

Izzy Poyntz Represents North West in National Final

29 July 2019 by Jean Hargreaves

Regional National C Level Golf Croquet at Bury – 24th July 2019

As last year yet again we had scorching HOT sunshine. After the overnight rain the lawns were initially slow but soon became fast playing surfaces as we welcomed for the second year players to Bury Croquet Club for this ‘C’ Level Golf Tournament.

Some of the players present were playing in their first ever CA scheduled Tournament and it soon became evident that they were just as determined to play well and at least gain points for this event.

The format was all play all with time limit. Only one game went to time with several finishing well within the time limit

David Cornes, from Crake Valley, was once again our Tournament Referree. His presence proved invaluable to the players and Tournament Managers alike with his helpful and constant attention whenever required

It soon became apparent that Izzy Poyntz from Bishop Monkton was using her prowess and strong hitting to successfully remove her opponents balls whilst she herself scored a succession of good hoops. On her heels were David Leach (Bury) and Sandra Cornes (Crake Valley) but both lost their games with Izzy.

When all the rounds had finished, however it became abundantly clear that Izzy had won all bar one of her games, closely followed by David Leach and John Trwoga (his first tournament) who had lost two games each but David had better net hoop figures. Sandra managed fourth place with a better net hoop figure of 0 to Roger Harper’s -1.

At this point, as everyone was totally exhausted by the heat, and we had 4 clear places at the top all agreed that we would finish the tournament at that point.

Izzy is now looking forward to going to Cheltenham for the final.

2019, Bury, Federation, News

Fed Sec Wins Millennium LPG

19 April 2019 by Jean Hargreaves

Federation (Millennium) Level Play Golf – 17th April 2019, Bury Whitehead Park

Dave Walters, being presented with the Federation LPG Millennium trophy by Organiser Jean Hargreaves.

In lovely weather 14 players from 5 clubs played in this event. The handicaps ranged from -3 to 7 and play was in 2 blocks followed by semi-finals, play-off and final.

There were several very close matches and some surprise results in the block play, including games seesawing between players.  Among the most notable were Richard Leach (hcp 7) beat Colin Irwin (hcp -1) 7-5 and Keith Woodward ( hcp 5) beat Paul Rigge (hcp-2). David Walters (hcp -3) was the only player to win all his block games.

The semi- finals were David Walters against Colin Irwin and Paul Rigge against Libby Dixon. David and Colin fought a close match with David winning on the Golden Hoop. Paul beat Libby 7-0 but not without a fight from her.

In the playoffs Colin beat Libby 7-1 but she still played determinedly.

The final between David and Paul started with Paul pushing hard but soon was overtaken by David. The match ended at hoop 10 when a shot of Paul’s didn’t go to plan and with David having 2 balls near the hoop and Paul’s far off, Paul conceded the hoop, and the match to David.

A very enjoyable day was had by all.

2019, Bury, Federation, Millenniums

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