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Fun Day at Bury

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A GOOD DAY AT BURY (30/7/06) by Geoff Young

Bury Croquet Club held its annual Fun Day on Sunday 30 July. Besides many Bury mambers there were fourteen visitors form Culcheth, Bowdon and Syngenta/Huddersfield. Each participant had a go at Flamingos, a variant in which a ‘Chance’ card is drawn after each hoop. Some are profitable, some not – including bonus chances for playing on one leg. Winners were David Dean annd Barbara Young.

The main thread was a variant entitled 10-minute croquet in which a doubles pair get as many hoops as possible in proper sequence, less discount for the number of turns started. The winner was Jane Wilkinson with five wins in six games, with four others on four victories.

The weather was very friendly and the catering superb so a good day was had by all.

06 Millenium Advanced at Heaton Park

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MILLENIUM ADVANCED AT HEATON PARK (9/4/06)

Ian Lines won the North West Federation Millenium Advanced Competition on the weekend of 8/9 April 2006.

Ian from Bowdon, won the main ‘A’ class event – the Neil Williams Trophy – with 6 victories in 7 matches.

The ‘B’ level trophy was won by Paul Rigge of Bury, with 6 out of 6 winning games, handicap now changed from 2.5 to 2.

Congratulations also to Alan Pidcock from Southport whose handicap with a handicap change from 0 to -0.5.

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(Photographs by kind permission of Bowdon Web Site)

 

Bury Win 2005 Festival of Croquet

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BURY WIN 2005 JAMBOREE CHAMPIONSHIP

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Congratulations to Bury Croquet Club on winning the North West Federation Chamipionship at Southport on 2/3 July 05.

Twenty teams from clubs in the Northwest Federation enjoyed an excellent weekend of croquet competing in the club championships held at Southport on 2/3 July 2005. Play started at 9am each morning to allow the games to be completed by 5pm on Sunday. The southport weather was warm and sunny, the food good, with the atmosphere and sociability first class. Barry Keen expertly managed the event. There were competitions to organise in four disciplines, golf, short, association handicap and advanced.

Bury won the Advanced event, Southport won the Handicap, Fylde won the Short and Culcheth won the golf event. When all points were aggregated, Bury emerged as the Champion Club.

The club championship is an excellent way to meet players from across the region as well as introduce new players into the tournament scene. Many start with golf, progress to short and a couple of years later will be playing full lawn association handicap or advanced. Many of the players now competing in the various leagues in the Northwest Federation started their competitive croquet at the club championships and have gone on to become regular tournament players.

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