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Penrith only North West Winner in National Inter Club Tournaments

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The Croquet Association organise a range of national competitions for clubs.  Here is the list of tournaments featuring north west clubs in 2018:

THE INAUGURAL SHORT CROQUET INTER CLUB TROPHY 2018 (AC)
The CA website does not list this new tournament, however Penrith and North Lakes beat Bowdon 7-4 in the last round of the area matches, then…..
– 08 October – Congratulations to Penrith & North Lakes who beat Nottingham 6-5 in the Final

2018 Inaugural All England Short Croquet Champions – Penrith & North Lakes – Robin Swindell, Geoff Sonley, Ian Ward, John Henderson.

THE INTER-CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP 2018 (AC)
Advanced Level, no handicap restrictions.
Featuring Bowdon – see Inter-Club results here 
– 18 June – Bowdon beat Woking 4-3 – see CA website report here  
– 03 Oct – Bowdon beat Bristol 5-1 – see CA website report here   
– 07 Oct – Bowdon beaten in Final by Surbiton – see CA website report here  

THE GOLF CROQUET INTER-CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP 2018 (GC)
Featured Bowdon and Culcheth – see GC Inter-Club results here 
– 12 May – Culcheth crash out in first round – see CA website report here  
– 02 Apr – Bowdon lost 2-4 at home to Nottingham in 1st Round – see report on CA website here  

 THE MARY ROSE INTER-CLUB TROPHY 2018 (AC)
Advanced Level, players must have Handicaps of 0 or greater and teams must have a gross handicap of at least 4.
Featuring Bowdon, Chester, Fylde and Pendle – see Mary Rose results here  
–  08 Aug – Chester beat Nottingham to reach semi-final – see report on CA website here  
–  13 Jul – Chester beat Bowdon 6-1 in 2nd Round – see report on CA website here  
–  22 Jun – Pendle lost 5-0 to Nottingham in 2nd Round – see report on CA website here  
–  29 Apr – Fylde lost 2-5 at home to Nottingham in a thrilling 1st Round match – see report on Fylde website here. 
–  26 Apr – Pendle beat Tyneside 4-3  in close 1st Round encounter  – see report on CA website here.   
–  19 Sep – Chester defeated by Watford in semi-final – see report on CA website here. 

THE GOLF CROQUET MURPHY SHIELD 2018 (GC)
Featured Pendle and Culcheth – see GC Murphy Shield results here   
– 12 May – Pendle disappointment in Durham losing 4-3 – see CA website report here  
– 08 May – Ashby beat Culcheth 4-2 in 1st Round – see report on CA website here

THE LONGMAN CUP 2018 (AC)
Handicap play, players must have a Handicap between 3.5 and 20.  Teams must have a gross handicap of at least 24.
Featuring Bowdon, Bury, Chester, Crake,  Pendle, Southport – see Longman Cup results here  
– 27 Jul – Bowdon lose out to Tyneside 3-4 – see report on CA website here  
– 25 Jun – Bowdon beat Chester 5-2 in 2nd Round  
– 30 Jun – Southport lose out to Tyneside – see report on CA website  
– 22 May – Southport knock out Crake 6-1 
– 27 May – Bowdon narrowly beat Cup holders Pendle 4-3
– 30 May – Chester beat Bury in ‘local derby’ 5-2 – see report on CA website by John Dawson   

THE SECRETARY’S SHIELD 2018 (AC)
Handicap play for players with a maximum handicap of 20.
Featuring Bury – see Secretary’s Shield results here 
Bury narrowly beaten by Sheffield 3-4 in Quarter Final  
In each round, normally one doubles and six single matches are played in a single day by a team of four, but variation is possible – refer to the full regulations for details.

 

Robin Swindell (Penrith) playing at York in inaugural Short Croquet Competition.

 

CA President, Quiller Barratt, presents the Longman Cup to Pendle captain Robin Delves. Also in picture: l to r - Libby Dixon; Paul Dowdall, Catherine Parnell. (October 2017)
CA President, Quiller Barratt, presents the Longman Cup to Pendle captain Robin Delves. Also in picture: l to r – Libby Dixon; Paul Dowdall, Catherine Parnell. (October 2017)

 

 

2017 Players in Murphy Shield at Nottingham (October)
2017 Players in Murphy Shield at Nottingham (October)

 

 

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.
 
 

National Golf Croquet Final for Crakes Sandra

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CROQUET ASSOCIATION GOLF CROQUET “C” LEVEL TOURNAMENT
at Middlesbrough 14thJuly 2018

Sandra Cornes receives her prize from Manager Derek Johnson 
Sandra Cornes receives her prize from Manager Derek Johnson

This tournament formed part of the newly initiated C Level series of tournaments for players with handicaps of 7 or more.  The initial entry was 6 but that was reduced further when Crake Valley’s David Cornes brought his handicap down to 6 just before the allocation date for the tournament.  David kindly offered to test his newly acquired referee credentials on the tournament instead (and he had cajoled his wife Sandra to enter anyway, so was travelling to sunny Teesside nevertheless)

Another casualty was Tournament Manager Roger Staples who was called away for some CA business in Cheltenham on the day.  Derek Johnson stepped into the breach and was able to recruit a further 7 players from his two clubs Belsay Hall and Tyneside.

The twelve entrants had been drawn into two American blocks of six by Roger with placings in the blocks playing a final play-off against their counterparts from the other block.

Block A finished in a three way tie at the top with John Fitzpatrick, Marcia Henderson and Brenda Johnson all finishing with 6 points from their 5 matches with Marcia beating John, John beating Brenda and Brenda beating Marcia.  John Fitzpatrick emerged as the winner, Marcia second and Brenda third, not on alphabetical order(!) but on net points.

Block B was a simpler affair, just a two way tie. Sandra Cornes’ 7-5 win over Dave Okell in the last round of matches was enough to pull her level with Dave on points and, of course, sent her through on the who-beat-whom first tiebreaker.

 BLOCK A P W D L F A Total
John Fitzpatrick (Middlesbrough) 5 3 0 2 31 27 6
Marcia Henderson (Auckland) 5 2 2 1 28 26 6
Brenda Johnson (Belsay Hall & Tyneside) 5 3 0 2 28 27 6
Sara MacPherson (Bishop Monkton) 5 2 1 2 25 27 5
Izzy Poyntz (Bishop Monkton) 5 2 0 3 28 26 4
May Hall (Tyneside) 5 1 1 3 20 27 3

 

 BLOCK B P W D L F A Total
Sandra Cornes (Crake Valley) 5 3 1 1 31 24 7
Dave Okell (Tyneside) 5 3 1 1 31 23 7
Sue Caygill (Belsay Hall & Tyneside) 5 3 0 2 31 27 6
Colin Chun (Belsay Hall) 5 2 1 2 26 29 5
Alison Okell (Tyneside) 5 1 2 2 23 28 4
Jean Thompson (Belsay Hall) 5 0 1 4 21 32 3

The play-offs saw Sandra Cornes take full advantage of her last gasp qualification at the top of Block B by overcoming a 3 point handicap difference in experience to beat John Fitzpatrick 7-5.  She now progresses to the national final in Nottingham at the end of September.

Third place in the tournament went to Dave  Okell who has only been playing for two months who beat Marcia Henderson, and another 3 point handicap difference, 7-2.  Brenda Johnson claimed 5thspot in winning 7-2 against Sue Caygill.  7thwas Sara MacPherson who just squeezed home 6-5 against Colin Chun.  Izzy Poyntz took 9thwith a 7-3 win over another novice, Alison Okell, and May Hall beat Jean Thompson 7-4.

Satisfyingly everybody said they had enjoyed what was, for most, a first foray into tournament play and the whole experience doesn’t seem to have put anybody off for life!

There are still two excellent regional opportunities for other NW Fed Golf Croquet players to qualify for the National finals – Bury on Wednesday 25th July (contact Paul Kenworthy) and Southport on Friday 10th August (contact Don Williamson).

2018 C Golf Players at Middlesbrough – From left to right: Sandra Cornes, Dave Okell, Alison Okell, John Fitzpatrick, Izzy Poyntz, May Hall, Marcia Henderson Colin Chun, Brenda Johnson, Jean Thompson, Derek Johnson, Sue Caygill and Sara MacPherson.

 

 

 

 
 
 

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