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National C Level GC Qualifier – Bury CC – Wednesday 21 July 2021

On a scorching hot July day, eight players played some quality golf croquet in Bury’s National C level qualifier. As the players were playing in extreme heat it was agreed to use 45 minute, time limited games and a draw would be an acceptable result.  If we hadn’t done so, it was highly likely someone would have suffered sun stroke.

Eight players in the Bury heat of the National C level GC competition

Very little separated the top 2 players with the key game featuring two Crake Valley members. The game was won by Peter Uglow against Sandra Cornes 7-6. Peter, impressive throughout, won all 7 games during the day whilst Sandra won 5 and drew one of her games. 

Peter is now planning how to get to the Isle of Wight during their Festival week to compete in the National Finals in September.

David Barrett presents Peter Uglow with a Trophy

The third and fourth places were taken by Bury members, John Cassell and Gail Burnett both of them new to tournament croquet.

The event was ably managed by David Cornes. 1st Peter Uglow (Crake Valley); 2nd Sandra Cornes (Crake Valley); 3rd John Cassell (Bury); 4th Gail Burnett (Bury). All results are on croquet scores except three 6-6 draws.  https://croquetscores.com/2021/gc/bury-national-c-level-qualifier/all-play-all

Crake Win National GC Federations Shield

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Crake Valley beat High Wycombe 4-2 in Federations Shield – 16th July 2021

On a sunny day the holders High Wycombe met Crake Valley from the north west on neutral ground at Ashby CC. As previously agreed, the singles took place in the morning with honours shared 2-2 at lunch.

In the afternoon, solid performances by Sandra Cornes and Simon Robins saw Crake Valley win both singles to take the match. At that time a very interesting and close contest was ongoing between David Cornes and Frank Sharps (CV) and Martin Bowker & Mark Higgins (HW) with the score 6-7, 7-3. It was, however, agreed to curtail the contest as both teams had long journeys and the Ashby club’s members had arrived for their regular “roll up” session.

Final score Crake Valley 4.5 High Wycombe 2.5 so a new name will appear on the shield in 2021.

Results:
Martin Bowker (HW) beat David Cornes (CV) 7-1, 4-7, 7-4
Frank Sharps (CV) beat Mark Higgins (HW) 7-3, 7-6
Marc Allen (HW) beat Simon Robins (CV) 7-6, 7-3
Sandra Cornes (CV) beat Nigel Clogg (HW) 7-5, 7-6
Simon Robins (CV) beat Nigel Clogg (HW) 7-2, 7-3
Sandra Cornes (CV) beat Marc Allen (HW) 7-6, 7-6
David Cornes & Frank Sharps (CV) drew with Michael Bowker & Mark Higgins (HW) 6-7, 7-3

Frank Sharps Wins Hunstanton Golf Croquet C Level

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FRANK SHARPS WINS HUNSTANTON GC C LEVEL

Four players from Crake Valley recently played at Hunstanton in the Golf Croquet National Series Qualifiers over 2 days
On the Saturday David Cornes was beaten 7-6 in the final by Mark Buckley (Leicester) who now joins David in the National B level Final in Compton (Eastbourne) in September.

The Sunday saw 8 players compete “all play all” with Frank Sharps beating all opponents to take the title and his place in the C level Final in Ryde, Isle of Wight, also in September.

The photo shows Frank receiving the C level trophy from Hunstanton Chair, Janet Kendal.

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