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Challenge & Gilbey

A good haul for the Club during the Challenge & Gilbey competitions which ran from Thursday until Sunday.

Paul Castell won the handicap Gilbey Goblet, beating David Gillett (also from SCCC) +5.

Liz Farrow won the Council Cup, beating Roger Mills +20.

Full report

The reduced entry this year allowed to tournament to be arranged as two two-day events as it was felt this would attract more weekend players than an event which started Friday lunchtime; this proved to be the case.

The SCCC lawns were a joy to play on, something Sussex members are getting perhaps too used to. Weather was generally warm and dry if windy the first day and with a sudden heavy lunchtime downpour on Sunday which had most (but not all) players running for cover.

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photos: Liz Farrow
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The Gilbey Goblet had 16 entrants with handicaps ranging from -1 (four players) to 18 - quite a few forests of bisques seen around the edges of lawns. Four blocks of four players followed by semi- and finals and consolation games gave five games to all participants over Thursday and Friday.

P1070877_Paul_Castell_Gilbey_winner.pngThe Goblet was won by Paul Castell (handicap 0.5) who won all the games he played, beating David Gillett (handicap 7) in the final.

With 16 players entering the Challenge Cup, only two were played for this year. The top eight played for the Roehampton Cup in a single block of seven games and this filled the Saturday and Sunday nicely. Eugene Chang pretty much overran the opposition, winning 6 out of 7 games and taking home what he said was his first A Class national win. Four players ended on 4 wins each in second place.P1070879_Eugene_Chang_Roehampton_Cup_winner.png

The Council Cup (B class) was played in two blocks of four with semi- and finals on the Sunday. The competition was won  by Sussex member Liz Farrow in a determined final against Roger Mills, winning +20.

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During the Gilbey Goblet Clive Grimley (SCCC, handicap 11) achieved his Bronze award. The fastest game prize was won by Eugene Chang and the peeling prize by Roger Mills (handicap 1.5) with a TP against John Reddish. Thanks to Roger for providing those prizes, so quite fitting he took one of them home himself.

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SCCC provided a covid-19 secure environment for the competitions with most of the buildings closed and results being submitted and available to players digitally. Unfortunately no catering was possible but there was a fridge with self-service soft drinks and lager (and proper beer, thank you Clive for the Hophead).

John Low, Manager


AC Competition - 02/09/2020 10:01

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Lawn bookings - 01/09/2020 07:55

The new system is now active.


Richard saves the day! - 19/08/2020 21:39

Rain stopped play at the Opens last week. Fortunately Richard Carline was on hand with the sponge roller and cleared lawns 4 and 1 for play so the final could take place.

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A sunny day of association croquet on Wednesday played in two competitions under handicap and advanced rules. Thanks to all who took part and followed Covid restrictions assiduously.

The handicap competition was won by Christine Merrington who won all her games. Congratulations Christine - hope you like your new handicap! Second place was Simon Ling.

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Christine Merrington on hoop approach
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Handicap Winner Christine Merrington

Handicap Block SL RF BC AG CM MC Wins Net Hoops
Simon Ling 10 14 14 13 6 3 21
Rosemary Faulkner 11 6 6 6 6 1 -19
Bruce Carr 3 9 14 1 2 2 -18
Alan Grundy 3 7 10 7 8 1 -23
Christine Merrington 14 14 14 14 14 5 41
Morgan Case 5 14 3 10 2 3 -2

The advanced rules competition was played in two blocks of four with cross-over semi-finals and final. The winner was Chris Coull who beat Liz Farrow in the final. Congratulations to Chris.

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Chris Coull pegging out in the final
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Advanced winner Chris Coull

Advanced Block A CC CH JL JI Wins Net Hoops
Chris Coull 14 14 14 3 25
Clive Hayton 10 5 14 1 5
John Low 7 6 6 1 -14
Jonathan Isaacs 0 4 14 1 -16
Advanced Block B LF PD CR MC Wins Net Hoops
Liz Farrow 14 8 10 2 5
Phil Dunk 8 14 14 2 5
Chris Rolph 12 7 11 1 -6
Martyn Cooperman 7 10 14 1 -4

Advanced Final Rounds Games Wins Win % Results
Chris Coull 2 2 100.0% L.Farrow +12, P.Dunk +4
Martyn Cooperman 2 2 100.0% J.Isaacs +11, J.Low +13
John Low 2 1 50.0% C.Rolph +1, M.Cooperman -13
Clive Hayton 2 1 50.0% L.Farrow -12, P.Dunk +8
Jonathan Isaacs 2 1 50.0% M.Cooperman -11, C.Rolph +8
Liz Farrow 2 1 50.0% C.Hayton +12, C.Coull -12
Phil Dunk 2 0 0.0% C.Coull -4, C.Hayton -8
Chris Rolph 2 0 0.0% J.Low -1, J.Isaacs -8


Extra AC 14pt Competition - 04/08/2020 08:25

There will be an extra AC 14pt competition in the one-day series on 16th September 2020. You can enter on-line now. £10 for members, £15 for non-members, no catering etc.


Annual Midweek Tournament - 01/08/2020 07:26

Annual Midweek Tournament

A gala of croquet at Southwick on Wednesday and Thursday with players in five different competitions in AC and GC, played under clear blue skies, as is always the case in Shoreham of course.

12 players competed on Wednesday and Thursday for the A class Abbey Challenge Cup, one of Sussex's more impressive pieces of silverware, and for the B class Scott Cup.

With limited numbers this year the Abbey Challenge was played in a flexible format to give the players as many games as they wished over the two days and were by and large left to their own devices by the manager: an American block as the basis, interspersed and followed by additional flexible Swiss games. Joel Taylor came fired up from the Eastern Championships and took the cup with 7/9 wins from nearest rivals Chris Coull and Chris O'Byrne. Congratulations to Joel.

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Joel Taylor and the Abbey Challenge Cup
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Liz Farrow and the Scott Cup

Most notable performance was probably from veteran Paul Castell who beat Chris O'Byne +14otp in what Chris described as 'brilliant play' and 'amazing'. Paul went on to beat Chris again in the Swiss rounds.

The competition for the Scott Cup was a 5 match block which was won by Liz Farrow, with 4/5 wins. Congratulations to her. Chris Rolph won his Silver Merit Award with an all round break against David H Boyd, taking the game +3. Well done to Chris. David also made an all round break of 12 in the same game but alas ......

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David H Boyd taking croquet
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Richard Brooks and the Jellicorse Cup



The three GC competitions were all single day events. 12 players competed for the Jellicorse Cup (A class) in two blocks with a single play-off round. The cup was won by Richard Brooks who beat Ian Shore 7-2. Congratulations to Richard. The B class competition (currently no cup) followed on Thursday and was in the same format; it was won by Stephen Hayns who beat Frances Low 7-6 in the final round. Congratulations to Stephen.

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Stephen Hayns
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John Knight and the Daldy Cup

Unfortunately the original Covid restrictions only allowed us to have space for one block in the C class event. Nonetheless the six players had lawns 3 and 6 to themselves; Diana Langridge and John Knight both ended with 4 wins each; although Diana had beaten John, he had the better net score and so took the cup - not the Isaacs trophy as advertised but our open competition Daldy Cup which has been out of use for some time.

As recommended there was no manager's table or office and results were sent by text to the manager who uploaded them immediately to CroquetScores so they could be seen and checked, a system that worked very well. Everyone complied very well with the Covid restrictions on distancing etc and I am sure the croquet balls, carriers etc  at Southwick have never been so clean. It is a shame there could be no catering, and we missed the Sussex beer. Still, the lawns played beautifully.

Full results on Croquetscores (AC) and CroquetScores (GC).
 


New lawn booking system

Francis has produced a new automated form to book lawns at the club.

Follow this link: sussexcountycroquetclub.org.uk/calendar/make-booking

Bookmark the link in your browser for future use.


Another mammoth one-day GC competition at Southwick

Despite having to work within Covid-19 restrictions Roger Sutton deleivered another mammoth day of Golf Croquet to 42 players from SCCC and other local clubs on 17th and 18th July. So many wanted to take part that the event had to be spread over two days - and the next one in August is set to be a two-day competition as well.

Covid restrictions meant all play had to be in 6 player groups so there was no overall winner of each of the three levels of competition - two blocks of A level and C level play and three blocks at B level.

Very many thanks to Roger for the huge effort involved in mounting the competition in difficult conditions.

Results

A level

Block A Friday IS BA RB LF RW CM Wins Net Hoops
Ivan Segal 3 5 5 6 5 0 -11
Brian Aikens 7 6 7 7 7 4 9
Richard Brooks 7 7 7 7 6 4 4
Liz Farrow 7 5 6 5 6 1 -4
Robin Wootton 7 6 6 7 7 3 3
Chrissie Merrington 7 4 7 7 5 3 -1

Block A Saturday MC MH JI RS TJ PC Wins Net Hoops
Morgan Case 7 7 7 5 7 4 12
Mark Hamilton 0 6 7 2 6 1 -10
Jonathan Isaacs 4 7 6 3 4 1 -10
Roger Sutton 5 3 7 5 6 1 -8
Tony Jolly 7 7 7 7 7 5 18
Paul Castell 5 7 7 7 2 3 -2

B Level

Block B Friday FP TN DK FL GT SR Wins Net Hoops
Fiona Phillips 7 3 7 5 4 2 -6
Tony Nicolas 5 5 7 6 7 2 -1
Dave King 7 7 5 7 7 4 6
Frances Low 6 5 7 5 1 1 -9
Gavin Taylor 7 7 6 7 7 4 5
Sue Rice 7 5 6 7 6 2 5

Block B2 Friday SN AS NB AO BC DL Wins Net Hoops
Sue Nicholas 5 4 5 4 7 1 -9
Andrew Stewart 7 7 7 5 3 3 0
Nigel Barton 7 5 7 7 6 3 2
Avril Oulton 7 5 6 6 7 2 -1
Bruce Carr 7 7 6 7 6 3 4
Diane Langridge 6 7 7 6 7 3 4

Block B Saturday RH FF SC CR LG PH Wins Net Hoops
Ray Hall 7 4 7 3 6 2 3
Fred Fredrich 2 0 7 7 7 3 0
Steve Chapman 7 7 6 7 5 3 14
Chris Rolph 1 5 7 7 7 3 2
Linda Gavigan 7 1 0 4 7 2 -11
Phillip Harrison 7 3 7 1 6 2 -8

C level

Block C Friday PH RF TE RE PM SC Wins Net Hoops
Pat Harden 4 6 2 3 4 0 -16
Rosemary Faulkner 7 7 7 5 7 4 4
Trish Ellis 7 6 5 5 7 2 0
Richard Elliss 7 6 7 7 3 3 8
Pat Mecham 7 7 7 1 7 4 5
Susan Caulfield 7 6 3 7 4 2 -1

Block C Saturday PB NH KP LD AA MA Wins Net Hoops
Paul Brown 7 6 7 7 2 3 4
Nick Hamilton 4 6 7 3 3 1 -10
Keith Patmore 7 7 7 6 4 3 3
Linda Davis 3 5 2 5 3 0 -19
Angela Avis 4 7 7 7 2 3 1
Mike Akester 7 7 7 7 7 5 21

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