A team of volunteers painted the new walls forming the corridor between the two buildings on Tuesday. It looks muh brighter. Thanks to them, including new member Davide, who happened to be around and volunteered to help.

D Level Series Tournament Saturday 9th May

The third of the Croquet England GC Tournaments was held at Southwick on Saturday. This time the D Level for 10+ handicaps.

Another gloriously sunny day. Probably the warmest of the year so far.

Twelve players fought it out during the day. Starting in two blocks of 6 and then moving onto a knockout and playing for places. The top two from each block went forward to the semi-finals. The first semi-final was between Carol Corcoran of Littlehampton and Hilary Stanko of Worthing. Carol won the match 7-4. In the second semi-final Martin Sloot of Phyllis Court played Derek Code of Brentwoods. Derek prevailed, winning 7-5.

In the final against Derek Code, Carol Corcoran eventually came out the winner 7-5 with Martin taking third place and Hilary fourth.

Andrew Stewart

Thanks to Andrew for managing the event.

Full results

Main Knockout 

Martin Sloots beat Hilary Danko 7-5 for 3rd place.

Nigel Corby beat Angela Marjoram 7-5 for 5th place.

Christine Weller beat Marion Kinshuck 7-4 for 7th place.

Diane Randall beat Hilary Morris 7-6 for 9th place.

Maureen Ward beat Jan Eynon 7-4 for 11th place.

A small field of 8 players took part in the AC 14 point handicap event yesterday. Lovely sunshine but biting, cold wind.

The event was run with 2 blocks of 4 players, followed by a final round for positions. The winner of Block 1 was Nigel Billingham with 3 pegged out wins. Block 2 was very close but was won by 1 point by Simon Turner who had one pegged out win.

Simon played very good croquet in the final against Nigel, and ended up the winner 14-5. Congratulations to Simon with an excellent display of AC croquet shots and breaks.

Mike Akester beat Tony Marjoram for 3rd place.

Well played everyone and thank you for supporting AC. Thanks of course to Ben for pristine lawns as ever.

Do please take part to keep AC going at Southwick. Our next event is a Two Legged AC competition on 3rd July. Each pair plays 3 rounds and each round has 2 singles and ASD. All 14 point. Enter now on Club's website.

Frances Low

Thanks to Frances for organising and managing this event.

GC singles competition, 28 April 2026

A full house of 36 players enjoyed a fine if somewhat cold and windy day’s croquet in six divisions of six players ranging in handicap from -1 to 11.

Many of the visitors were seeing the refurbished club house for the first time and there were many admiring comments.

Three players made the manager’s life easy by winning all their games. Special mention must go to Rob Harper, one of the three undefeated players, doing so in Division C in his first ever tournament. The other two were Stephen Wingrove in Division B and Tim Weller in Division F. The runners up, all tying with another player on three wins but coming out ahead on net hoops, were David King (Division C), Richard Brooks (Division B) and David Larkin (Division F).

Stephen Collett was the clear winner of Division D with four wins, followed by three players on three wins, of whom Sue Nicholas had the best net hoop score.

In Division A, Konstantin Yudintsev dropped only one game, to Brian Aikens. Both finished on four wins but Konstantin was awarded the prize with +10 net hoops to Brian’s +6.

Division E had three players on four wins, again resolved by net hoops. Tim Bick edged out ahead of Peter Hill, also recording an excellent first ever tournament, pipping Kathy McColgan to the runner up spot by 2 net hoops.

Thanks to Gabrielle Higgins for managing this event.

Konstantin Yudintsev

Stephen Wingrove

Rob Harper

Stephen Collett

Tim Bick

Tim Weller

Full results