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Bowdon Players Selected for Eights

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BOWDON PLAYERS SELECTED FOR THE EIGHTS (10/8/06)

Four Bowdon members have been selected to play in one of the ‘Eights’ tournaments. Keith Aiton and David Maugham have been invited to take part in the premier event, the President’s Cup, in Jersey in October. Keith won the event last year and David did so in 2004. Ian Lines will take part in the Chairman’s Salver at Hunstanton, an event he finished fifth in last year after winning it in 2004. Steve Lewis will be travelling to Nailsea to play in the Spencer Ell competition. (Courtesy Bowdon website)

Bowdon on top of everything at Southport

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CLEAN SWEEP FOR BOWDON AT SOUTHPORT (6/8/06) (Report & Photographs, courtesy of www.bowdoncroquet.co.uk)

Southport_B06_John_WastellSouthport_B06_Dennis_Graham Players from Bowdon finished in first place and runner-up in both the main event and in the plate event at the ‘B’ Level Advanced Weekend at Southport on 5/6 August.

John Wastell beat Richard Griffiths +14 in the final of the main event whilst Dennis Graham beat Andrew Winn +2t (25-23) in the plate.

Richard’s handicap reduces to 1 and John’s goes down to 2.5. Bowdon fielded ten participants in the 20 strong entry field.

Left – Tournament manager John Haslam presents the ‘B’ Level Advanced Trophy to John Wastell

Right – Dennis Graham receives the plate award from John Haslam

 

 

 

 

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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