7-8th May 2022

Neil Adams representing Westmorland won the B Class tropy with 5/5.

Neil specially mentioned Liz Wilson (Fylde CC) and Paul Rigge (Bury CC) with whom he has  been practicing and attending NW Coaching sessions.

He was delighted by an automatic handicap reduction from 5 to 4.5 and even more so when the  tournament handicapper acted to bring Neil’s handicap down to 3.

The C Class trophy was won by Eileen Magee.

The tournament ran as a Swiss Amalfi System (Search Wiki) . This concept turned out very well and did indeed produce the promised last round ‘big match’. 

The lawns were unusually slow at first,  perhaps suffering from the Cotton Mills damp air? But returned to normal on Sunday with a warm breeze and a little Sun.

The team of Derek Bell-Jones, Nigel Worthington, Robert Jones and Jayne Taylor finally played their postponed play-off final against Westmorland in the North West Federation short lawn league.

The match was supposed to be played last season, but was called off due to bad weather, not a problem on Tuesday, 26 April, when the weather was sunny and dry giving perfect playing conditions at the neutral venue of Southport.

It was a tight match, each team keeping pace with the other. The first round ended 2-2, the second round was 1-3, third round 3-1 then final round was 2-2, giving the final score of 8 all. Then the team with the most hoops is the winner. The hoops were nervously totalled up. Westmorland ran 139 hoops and Chester ran 158 hoops, giving Chester the championship.

Report from: https://chestercroquet.club/short-lawn-win-for-chester

27/04/2022