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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.

Midweek Over 50’s at Pendle

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MIDWEEK 50+ HANDICAP EVENT AT PENDLE, 18-21 July 2006 by Barbara Dutton and John Filsak

Competitors came from all over the country to take part and enjoyed the weather and the catering, although the lawns proved a challenge having dried out considerably making conditions tricky. The normally reliable Pennine overhead sprinkler system functioned only briefly on Thursday morning. The lawns were hard, bumpy in places and rather two-paced; an inadvertant jump shot over the object ball in a dolly rush was achieved on numerous occasions. Nevertheless it was possible to play some good croquet; Andrew Webb (Pendle and Fylde) achieved his silver merit award, and Janet Davies (Chester) won the prize for the fastest pegged-out game with one hour and seven minutes.

Player of the week was Roger Staples (Middlesbrough). He topped the Egyptian leaderboard by a good margin, won the “B” class trophy after a three-way play-off, and received the prize for the most games played (12). Andrew Webb from Fylde was Overall runner up. Neil Kellett (Cheltenham) won his first ever tournament trophy with a clean sweep in the “C” class. Bryan Saddington (Hunstanton) won the “A” class, beating lower handicapped players on the way. John Filsak (Pendle, managing for the first time) and Andrew Webb retained their handicap doubles title.

Jim Penny from Shrewsbury had his 84th birthday on the Wednesday, the celebrations for which may have accounted for him winning the wooden spoon. The tournament catering was very much worth turning up for, and was done largely by some of Pendle’s golf croquet playing members.

Handicap changes – Roger Staples 11 to 10; Andrew Webb 10 to 9; Mike Bowser 4.5 to 5; Robin Delves 14 to 12.

Chairman Geoff Whittaker presents trophies to winning Over 50 tournament players (July 06): [photographs by Barbara Dutton] :

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Southport Win 06 Festival

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SOUTHPORT WIN NW FED CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP (3/7/06)

 

Under glorious blue skies and scorching heat, the NW fed organised a very successful club championship at Southport on 1st and 2nd July.

Eight clubs competed in the two day tournament, comprising Golf, Short, Handicap and Advanced competitions. The South Lawns played well despite the substantial treatments they are currently receiving, whilst the infamous North Lawns presented a challenging test on their spongy surface. This annual tournament requires substantial logistics with fourteen lawns to be set out daily and about 70 meals to be catered for on each day.

The tournament was managed by Barry Keen, assisted by Simon Wolf (Short) and Val Bailey (Golf). The Golf event involved five clubs playing 89 games resulting in Culcheth beating all other clubs to take the Golf Shield. Four clubs contested the Short event, playing 30 games with Southport eventually winning the Shield. The Handicap event was very closely contested by four clubs with three clubs being equal leaders after the first day, however, Southport won the knock-out event on the Sunday. Six teams played in the Advanced event with Bury remaining undefeated throughout the weekend to take the Advanced Shield.

The overall club championship is decided by allocating one point for each match victory and three clubs were very closely positioned with Fylde in third place, Bury in second place with Southport winning the overall event by one point.Fest06_Bury_Adv

 

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