Club Opening Day

There was a good turn-out for the now traditional summer season opener of the President's Team versus the Chairman's Team. This year (on April Fool's Day) the President's team prevailed by a score of 9-6. Games were played singles or doubles, mainly GC with some games of one-ball and all available lawns were fully used.

The weather stayed dry and players and spectators enjoyed a lovely lunch of soup, bread and cheese.

Thank you to all who took part and Rachel, Richard and Angela for the catering.

Clive

GC level play doubles competition 29th March 2024

Roger Sutton reports that again we were lucky with the weather: an indifferent forecast but sunshine for most of the day.

We had 34 entrants giving us three blocks. Block A was won by Richard Brooks and David King.
Block B by Liz Drury and Gail Dowd.
Block C by Graham Tucker and Fran Box.

Division A Winners David King & Richard Brooks

Division B Winners Liz Drury & Gail Dowd

Thanks to Rachel for putting on the lunch and to Roger for managing the event. Some photos below (including Cruchy the dog).

Full results

Some photos of the event

Summer Club Competitions

Entries are now closed to all competitions EXCEPT the Diana Brothers Drawn Pairs which you can enter here.

If you have already entered the Drawn Pairs you will find it on your entry confirmation email. Please note it has not been included in the entry fees as it is pay-on-the-day. Please don't pay for it now as it causes confusion and you are likely to be asked to pay again!

The winter GC Doubles results page is back on-line here

GC half day competition 16th March 2024

Manager Roger Sutton reports: The Sun shone for a change for our first half day tournament of the year.

The field was divided into 5 blocks of four and then all played all in each block.
Block 1 won by Konstantine Yudistev
Block 2 won by Paul Green
Block 3 Won by Les Ardley
Block 4 won by Susan Caulfield
Block 5 won by Pat Harden

Well done to the five winners.

Thanks to Roger for managing the event.

Full results

Some pictures of the morning courtesy of Vincent L'Estrange. (click picture to enlarge)

Club Quiz Evening

An enjoyable quiz evening was held Thursday 14th March at the club. Four rounds of quiz questions interspersed with lasagne, salad and pudding. Winners were the Church Mice, led by Gabrielle. Not that their success was anything to do with questions about church buildings of course!

Grateful thanks to Fran Box for organising the evening, to Angela and Linda for the supper and to Anthony Bone for preparing the quiz and being an excellent quizmaster.

A few pictures of the evening.

A little of the social side of the old Sussex Croquet Club can be found in this final winter article from the archives. (illustration above: Illustrated London News, 18 January 1868)

Everything you need to enter the Club Competitions

The new season approaches and you can now enter for this season's club competitions.

Entry is on-line; if you are unable to enter on-line, please contact Fiona or Liz. If you do not use email, if at all possible please find a club member to receive your emails about these competitions.

Here are the pages you can use on the website:

This page (GC) or this page (AC) gives you the brief competiton details to help you decide which to enter.

You can enter the competitions here. Please read the instructions on the form!

You can see who has entered each competiton on this page.

If you have any difficulties, please contact competitions@sussexcountycroquetclub.org.uk

Deadlines for entries

To all competitions except Diana Brothers Drawn Pairs:  Monday 18th March

Diana Brothers Drawn Pairs competition  will be played on Tuesday 4th June and the deadline for entry is 28th May. This competition is pay-on-the-day (£5).

Paying for entries

Once the deadline for entries has passed you will receive an email (if you have given an email address) setting out how much to pay, the bank details required and the payment reference. Please do not pay before then. pay before then.

Curry Lunch at the Club, 18th February 2024

A very enjoyable Curry Lunch and Raffle was held today at the Club, with profits going towards the building fund. The curries were excellent (your writer went back for more!). Thanks to our wonderful team of catering volunteers for and excellet job. 

A lot of prizes had been donated so we were given plenty of time for the first course to go down before tackling the pud. Thanks to the raffle organisers for their hard work.

Some pictures of the event.

Winter GC Doubles

The grey and drizzly start to the day didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of the 36 players gathered for the first GC Doubles tournament of 2024 and it was good to see familiar faces from other SECF clubs for the first time this year.

By the end of the first round the drizzle had cleared and play continued at pace with all 3 blocks finishing their first three games in good time for a welcome lunch of burgers, fries and salad provided by Rachel and Richard Pointon.

Two more rounds after lunch resulted in an outright win for Liz Farrow and Jonathan Isaacs who won all 5 of their games in Block A. Richard Brooks and David King won 3 games as did Robyn and Bob Clark. They were level on +1 hoop but Richard and David took second place as they had beaten Robyn and Bob.

David Dickins and Paul Brown won Block B with 4 wins. Bridget Goodman and Jane Powell took second place with 3 wins and + 3 hoops, closely followed by Sue and Tony Nicholas who also had 3 wins but -1 hoop.

Hilary Bird and Peter Adams took Block C with 4 wins. Jim Mander and Sheona McArthur came second with 3 wins and +9 net hoops. Joanne Crosby and Nira Scutt took third place with 3 wins and 0 net hoops. Rosemary and Pete Wyld were hot on their heels as they also had 3 wins but finished with -2 net hoops.

Report by Linda Gavigan

Thanks to Linda Gavigan for managing the event.

Full results