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Cas Sinclair Wins Reed Cup and AC Bronze Medal

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Bowdon May AC Handicap 5-7 May 2018

 

 

The early May Bank Holiday saw the first of the Bowdon six Croquet Association tournaments to be held at the club this year.  Fourteen competitors entered the Bowdon May Handicap tournament (including 10 Bowdon club members).

Croquet play started promptly at 9.30am each day and 5 minutes of practice time was allowed beforehand on the lawn allocated for a player’s match.  The event was managed by Lorna Frost.

The semi finals were contested by the top 4 players, provided that they had played at least 5 Egyptian matches.

In the Semi Finals, Jerry Guest beat Barry McKenzie +12 and Cas Sinclair beat Carol Steinberg.  In the Final, Cas Sinclair beat Jerry Guest +26 to win the Reed Cup.  Cas also obtained her CA Bronze Award.

Club President Colin Irwin presented trophies to Cas Sinclair (Reed Cup), Jerry Guest (Runner Up) and Carol Steinberg (Egyptian).

 More details, photos and results on the Bowdon CC website – here  

(Pictures courtesy of John Lucas)

King Rules Lancashire Golf Croquet

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18th Lancashire International Open Golf Croquet Championship – 28/29 April 2018 at Pendle

Manager Abdul Ahmad with Winner Tim King and Runner-up Libby Dixon

I entered for the first time an Open Golf Croquet Tournament held at the Craven and Pendle Croquet Club situated in the small village of Earby.

It was a little out of the way but on arrival at the lawns I was greeted with the sight of four keen club Members and a very willing volunteer (Tim) setting out the lawns and doing a sterling job of trying to clear the lawns of the standing water.  After the valiant struggles of all, the matches got under way on Saturday at the appointed time.  

It was very pleasant to be able to play competitive Croquet in such a wonderful setting with wonderful views around. The competition was tough but the weather was tougher I never expected it to be so cold towards the end of April.  Hot meals were provided for the players by Peter Dewhurst the Club Secretary on both days.

Despite the inclement weather, a very enjoyable time was had by all involved. Tim King who had lost to Paul Rigge in the All play All group stages beat Libby Dixon to retain the title for a second successive year. Libby had beaten a hitherto undefeated Paul Rigge in the prior knockout round.

l will be looking forward to attending again next year.

Tim King winner of 2019 Lancashire Open GC Championship

See details on Croquet Scores here   

 

Pendle Withdraw from 2018 Short AC League

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Regrettably Pendle and Craven have been forced to withdraw their team from the 2018 short-lawn league due to anticipated difficulties in raising sufficient players to meet their league commitments. Accordingly all their short-lawn fixtures for this season will be declared void which will result in no points being awarded to either side for any of their scheduled short-lawn matches.

Reaching such a decision like this is never easy and the team captain and officers of Pendle and Croquet club must be commended for the decisive and timely way in which they have faced up to their present difficulty for which we must thank them.

For the avoidance of doubt this decision does not affect any of Pendle and Craven’s commitments in any of the other Federation leagues and these matches will continue as scheduled.

Ivan Wheatley, League Manager.

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