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Barbara Young Brings Symons Croquet Cup to North West

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Barbara Young wins the Symons Cup at Edgbaston Handicap Weekend
by Ian Slater at Edgbaston , 17 Jul 2017 (Courtesy of CA Website)

Barbara Young from Bury won the Symons Cup at the Edgbaston Handicap Weekend held at the Edgbaston Croquet Club on July 15th/16th

Good weather and excellent lawns gave a solid base to the weekend.

Tony Whateley began the defence of his trophy well with three wins on Saturday, being drawn to meet Esther Jones with a similar record on Sunday morning. She used her bisques well to win and now looked favourite to win overall.

Meanwhile Barbara Young lost her first game whilst becoming familiar with the pace of the Edgbaston lawns. Drawn to meet Esther in the final game of the event, she played the last of several fine games to take the trophy. Barbara showed a solid style in maintaining breaks and played some cannons well to establish them.

The illness of one of the entrants required some rescheduling of games.

Results: Barbara Young (9) 4/5;  Esther Jones (11)  3 /4; Tony Whateley (4) 3/5; Klim Seabright (6) 3/5;  Paul Trafford (7) 2/4;  Jeane Ackermann (11)  1 /3; Lawrence Whittaker (7) 1 /3; Nick Perry (16) 0/5.

Federation Golf Croquet Trophy Goes to North Wales

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FEDERATION HANDICAP GOLF TOURNAMENT – WHITEHEAD PARK 15th JULY 2017

Ten players from six clubs took part in the 2017 Federation Handicap Golf tournament at Bury.

Manager David Barratt presents trophy to Roger Edwards

The day started fine but shortly became rather damp with the almost constant drizzle, and occasional heavy shower. The format was block play with the winners of one block playing the second place from the other block. The remaining players also had other games to play. Seventeen of the original block play of twenty games went at least to hoop eleven with three of those going to the Golden Hoop.

In Block A – Roger Edwards from Craig Y Don gained 1st place with Janet Smith from Fylde in second place.  In Block B – John Gilmartin from Bury came first with Terry Dunbar from Southport in second place.

Semi-finals: Roger beat Terry on the Golden Hoop and John beat Jan at hoop 11. 

Final: Won by Roger 7-4 whilst the play off for 3rd and 4th places was won by Jan 7-5.  Well done and Congratulations Roger.

Roger Edwards receives trophy from Manager David Barratt

All enjoyed the day despite the weather. Thanks to all the Bury members who helped on the day.

The Return of the Croquet Pods

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First Croquet Pod of Season

Bury Croquet Club – 11 July

Paul Rigge demonstrates a Maugham Standard Leave (MSL)

Croquet guru Paul Rigge organised the first Croquet Pod of the season this week – an evening coaching session for Advanced Association players.

Advanced leaves were demonstrated and covered by Paul.  He made it look easy for the 8 north west players who attended from Bury, Bowdon and Fylde.  They all made a good fist of personal practice attempts.

Well done to Paul with thanks from all attendees.  Can we have some more please?

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