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Ian Lines Wins Neil Williams Trophy Again

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Ian Lines Wins Neil Williams Trophy Again by Geoff Young (26 Apr 09)

The NW Fed Millennium Advanced was played at Heaton Park on 25-26 April 2009 under the mangement of Bury Croquet Club.

Two sections were played. The Neil Willams Trophy in the A Section of 11 players was a Flexible Swiss, won in a close contest by Ian Lines who lost only one game – this was to new face Lee Hartley of Fylde, contributing quite a bunch of index points towards his handicap reduction to scratch by making five wins out of seven. David Walters (Bowdon) also won 5/7, handicap reduction to -1, and was defeated by Ian in a decider. Paul Rigge completed the peels for a quad but couldn’t quite do the pegout.

In the B section for the Woodlands Trophy, Roger Schofield (Pendle & Craven) had a clean sweep of five out of five in a round robin, with handicap reduction to 3.

Full results:

Mill09_Adv_IanLinesA SECTION: Brian Storey bt Bob Burnett +13; Lee Hartley bt James Hawkins +7; Andrew Winn bt David Walters +10; Dave Nick bt Paul Rigge +9; Ian Lines bt Ray Lowe +14; Burnett bt David Barrett +23TP; Storey bt Nick +17; Hawkins bt Rigge +9TPO; Hartley bt Winn +17; Walters bt Lowe +3; Lines bt Burnett +9; Winn bt Barrett +25; Hartley bt Storey +14; Nick bt Hawkins +19; Rigge bt Lowe +16; Walters bt Burnett +9; Hawkins bt Barrett +3(T); Lines bt Nick +25; Storey bt Winn +3(T); Hartley bt Lines +17; Nick bt Lowe +11; Walters bt Rigge +10; Nick bt Burnett +2; Lines bt Hawkins +17TP; Nick bt Hartley +17; Lines bt Storey +25TP; Walters bt Hawkins +20; Rigge bt Winn +19; Burnett bt Lowe +26; Hartley bt Burnett +17; Lines bt Rigge +17TP; Winn bt Nick +5; Barrett bt Lowe +1(T); Walters bt Storey +14; Burnett bt Hawkins +10; Rigge bt Hartley +25; Storey bt Lowe +22; Lines bt Walters +20; TP Winn bt Hawlins +25TP; Burnett bt Rigge +7.

Mill09_Adv_RogerScofieldB SECTION: Mark Lloyd bt Ken Anderton +2T; Roger Schofield bt John Wilkinson +1T; Liz Wilson bt Peter Wilson +2; Schofield bt P Wilson +1T; Lloyd by L Wilson +20; Wilkinson bt Anderton +9; Schofield by Anderton+10; Pwilson bt Lloyd +1T; L Wilson bt Wilkinson +19; Anderton bt L Wilson +5; P Wilson bt Wilkinson +14T; Schofield bt Lloyd +17;; Anderton bt P Wilson +9 Lloyd bt Wilkinson +26; Schofield bt L Wilson +10.

The Flying Circus Returns

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The “Flying Circus” Returns – Bob Burnett (20/02/09)

At a recent officers meeting of the Federation it was decided to re-introduce the idea of the coaching “Flying Circus”. You may remember, this was originally instigated by Neil Williams a number of years ago and was intended to take the coaches and coaching to the various clubs within the Federation. Clubs were able to identify areas and standards of play within their own clubs that would benefit most from coaching by the Federation Coaches. It proved very successful.

A number of Coach Qualification Courses have been run over recent years and so most clubs have at least a Club Coach on their books who is able to deal with people new to the game. The Flying Circus will provide a coach, of the appropriate level of expertise and experience, to move your players on by coming to your club and running a full day course.

Please refer to the FIXTURES BOOK pages 108- 109 for the complete details of which level is required by your members — from ‘Improvers (with Handicaps ’18 to 21 )–right through to Gold level– WE CAN DO IT !

The intention is to visit every club within the Federation during the 2009 season. In order to plan the programme we need to know the level required, the numbers involved and the dates when your members and lawns are available. We plan to publish the dates of courses on the NWFCC web site and make them open to all members of the Federation to attend. This will ensure that all players have the chance to attend a course of the level they require even if their own club is concentrating on a different standard of play. The Federation will fund the course and so there is no cost to the club (other than providing the coach with lunch).

Courses and venues already identified are: Southport GOLD 28th March (Advance coaching for experienced players, handicaps below 4) – Bob Burnett, Ian Lines & James Hawkins. Chester SILVER GILT Mon 18 May (Experienced players with handicap 4-8) – Christine Irwin & Don Williamson. Fylde SILVER 3rd May (Experienced players with handicaps 8-11) – Ken Cooper & Ray Lowe. Culcheth GOLF & SHORT Tue 12 May – David Barrett

Pennine Cup back in North East?

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Pennine Trophy may go to the North East (06/07/08) by Bob Burnett

In the annual match between the North West and the North East held at Pendle last Sunday (6th) the North East emerged victorious. Their team of Andy Davies, Bruce Rannie, Philip Errington, Roger Staples, Mike Evans and David Millener won all three doubles games in the morning session and three of the singles in the afternoon to record a 6 – 2 win. The weather stayed mostly fair although a heavy shower at lunch time slowed the already very slow lawns even more. Despite their excellent win there was no trophy to take home as it has gone missing since last year.

Full results: (North West names first):
Advanced Doubles: Bob Burnett & Graham Saunders lost to Andy Davies & David Millener -23; Liz Wilson & Abdul Ahmad lost to Philip Errington & Roger Staples -24; David Walters & Simon Wolf lost to Bruce Rannie & Mike Evans -8.
Advanced Singles: Bob Burnett bt Andy Davies +2; David Walters bt Bruce Rannie +10; Liz Wilson lost to Philip Errington -4;
Handicap Singles: Abdul Ahmad lost to Roger Staples -24; Graham Saunders lost to David Millener -14; Simon Wolf v Mike Evans (match abandoned) .

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