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Eileen and Evelyn recently competed in the 1st Women's World
Golf Croquet Championship in Cairo, Egypt. Visit the tournament website for the results.
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AGM REPORT
The AGM took place on Monday 7th November. A slightly disappointing turnout
this year - only 17 members present - resulting in vast quantities of food
for those there.
The club made a surplus of £480 for the year, due to increased lawn and
equipment hire, and more taster sessions, together with a reduced expenditure
on the lawns, but we expect the lawn expenditure to increase again next year.
The meeting voted for a small increase in subscription rates for next season:
up £2 to £44 for individuals. See opposite for details of the new rates.
The previous Committee was re-elected for another year.
The meeting approved a change to the Club Constitution, principally to enable
us to apply for Community Amateur Sports Club status. Click here to see the
new Constitution.
An upgrade to Lawn 3 is a possibility, and we will seek possible grants for
drainage and surface improvement work.
Last, but not least, the trophies were presented. Click here for pictures.
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SUBSCRIPTIONS 2006
The AGM voted for a small increase in subscription rates. Our rates for
the 2006 season will be:
Standard
£44 (up £2)
Family
£80 (up £3)
Unwaged
£36 (up £1)
Unwaged
Couple £69 (up £2)
Country
£33 (up £1)
Country
Family £63 (up £2)
Junior
£13 (up £1)
Non-Playing
£5 (unchanged)
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Tim King is now a member of the Croquet Association
Golf Croquet Committee. Tim will be happy to take any
queries, input or views of Ashby Croquet Club members to put to the Committee
for discussion.
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INTERNAL LEAGUES
The winner of the O'Grady Trophy (Association 26-point league) was
Geoff Ellott; runner-up Mick Haytack.
The winner of the 14-point Association league was Tim King; runner-up
Marilyn Murray.
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CA Diploma
Congratulations to Derek Buxton for his award of the CA Diploma
for services to croquet. The announcement of the awards was made at the
Croquet Association AGM, which was held at the Hurlingham Club, on Saturday
15th October. The citation was as follows:
"Derek
learned to play croquet in 1995 and since then he has been at the centre of
transforming the club, which now has the facilities and players to be part of
the national scene. He has been a pioneer in playing in external events and
returning to his club to encourage others and to coach and manage club teams.
Derek is a patient, good humoured member of his club. He is liked by all and
participates in all aspects of club life. Since retirement in 2002, Derek has
become the club secretary and also Vice-Chairman of the East Midlands
Federation Committee."
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Please note that Lawns 1 and 2 will be closed from Monday 10th October
for essential winter maintenance. Lawn 3 will still be available for playing
- weather permitting!
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Mick
Haytack reached the final of the All England Golf
Croquet Championships at Nailsea recently. Read his report.
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INTERNAL GOLF CROQUET SINGLES LEAGUE:
13 players took part, and all matches were completed. Ray Mounfield and Mike
O'Brian won their respective blocks. In the play-off (best of three games),
Ray beat Mike 3-7, 7-3, 7-5 to win the Buxton Vase.
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EAST MIDS GOLF CROQUET LEAGUE RESULT: Long Eaton 4 - 8 Ashby B (Eileen,
Geoff, Marilyn)
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IT'S A KNOCKOUT!
Tim King beat Geoff Ellott (7-3,
7-2) in the final of the Golf Croquet knockout tournament. Full report on the Golf Croquet
Knockout page.
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BURY TOUGH LONGMAN CUP: Bury 4
- 3 Ashby (Report by Tim)
The Ashby team travelled to Bury on Saturday 17th Sept. This was not
really a familiar venue for the team (Mick Haytack had been a few years
earlier). The journey was relatively smooth but not much else was easy.
The location is a former crown green bowling lawn. The two croquet
courts are about 88% size and each has three edges with significant fall away
and two corners that are positively lethal.
In the morning, Mick and Marilyn came up against Barbara and Geoff Young
in fine form. Tim King had even fewer chances against a
rapidly-improving Tony Phillips (those pesky Pidcock mallets being
responsible again!). Geoff kept Ashby in the hunt though with a victory
that required some dogged persistence towards the end (while Tim avoided
nervous watching by attempting to show off at Golf Croquet; at least his
6-7 loss was achieved against six bisques). 1-2 down at lunchtime.
After lunch, Mick was the first result to declare. He too lost to
Tony but gave far more of a fight than Tim had managed. Tim then put
the match back in the balance with a win against Barbara. This was far
from conventional (no surprise there then), with Barbara temporarily
misplacing her legendary precision (the pair of Youngs both ran off the same
home court on croquet strokes within a minute of each other; surely a
record!) and Tim only pulling away from a period of close scrapping with some
classic Golf Croquet touches: several over-hit hoop runs, running 3-back
and 4-back with a single shot and having to jump a previously roqueted ball
that was left stuck in the jaws of rover. He even attempted to pull
defeat from the jaws of victory by missing with the front ball on a
twelve-inch peg out (the back ball hit) but Barbara was too off-colour to
make this count for more than one additional hoop point. The battle of
the Geoffs decided the match. Unfortunately, Geoff Ellott could not
quite claw his way back into contention and this loss confirmed the victory
for Bury. On the other hand, everyone would have probably walked away
with white hair if they had been waiting on the result of Marilyn's game.
She hung on for dear life as her opponent steadily closed the gap. But
Marilyn was still one hoop ahead when time was called and Mac was not able to
hit in with his final shot. Great tenacity from Marilyn and a plucky result
all round.
The lawns were tough to learn and to have been so close to a victory was a
credit to all. Perhaps manager Derek would have made the telling
difference. Next year we have two national competitions to compete in so more
chance to find the perfect team!
Full
scores (Ashby names first):
Mick Haytack (12) and Marilyn Murray (20) 11-26 Barbara (4.5) and
Geoff Young (11)
Tim King (6) 3-26 Tony Phillips (8)
Geoff Ellott (16) 26-13 Mac Hardman (16)Tim King 26-8
Barbara Young
Mick Haytack 20-26 Tony Phillips
Geoff Ellott 19-26 Geoff Young
Marilyn Murray 22-21(T) Mac Hardman
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FAME FOR EILEEN Eileen's
forthcoming trip to Egypt to play in the Women's Golf Croquet World
Championships is attracting huge amounts of media interest! Following a
full-page feature in the Derby Evening Telegraph and articles in the Burton Mail and
Burton
Trader, Eileen also featured in an interview on Radio Derby.
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We recently
held a Croquet Day for the Leicestershire & Rutland Federation of WI
Groups. An introductory coaching session ws followed by an informal
tournament. Pictured (in the centre) is the winner, Liz, with her prize of
a bottle of wine. Thanks to Derek and Eileen for organising, and Wendy,
Michael, Dave and Richard who helped out.
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Chris Mounfield was runner-up in
the CENTRE
STAGE competition at Solihull on Sunday Sept 11th. She had an
excellent start, winning her first four games, including a well deserved 7-3
win against the eventual winner of the competition! However she then lost
narrowly to Rosemary Longbottom and ended the day being beaten by Tom Brant
(from Woodhall Spa). Overall she finished second and Tom third. The winner
was a Tyneside player - Par Badhan. Two photos attached: the presentation to
Par and Chris by Pat Wright, and one of Chris and Tom contemplating! Click here to view photos.
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Four Ashby players - Ray, Mike, Derek
and Eileen - played in the Yorkshire International Open Golf Croquet
Championship at Ripon on Sept 2nd to 4th. Well
done to Ray who won his block of six, and then progressed to the semi-finals
of the main knockout competition - the only British player to reach this
stage. Photos: Two photos from the Yorkshire Open
(one of Ray being congratulated for finishing in 4th place and one of the 3rd
and 4th place players - that's Yasser Esmat on the right!) Click
here to view photos.
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CRAZY CROQUET & CAKES
Barrie set up a tricky crazy croquet court. Twelve members attended. Mike won
the competition after a play-off between himself, Eileen and Rachel, all
having scored 26 in the competition. The weather kept fine. The tea was
lovely. Thanks to Barrie and all who helped with tea.
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The SHAKESPEARE CUP (Club
Association singles tournament) was won by Geoff. Results and pictures on the
Shakespeare Cup page.
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For the second year running, the JIM KIRBY CUP
has been won by an Ashby player. Well done to Mick
Haytack, beating Derek Blow (Southwell) by 14 - 11 in a
very tight final. Results and
pictures on the JK Cup page.
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MAKE MINE A DOUBLE: Tim King partnered Roy Ware (of Canterbury) to win
the Ranelagh
Cup - the English National Golf Croquet Doubles Championship
- at Surbiton on Aug 27th & 28th. Derek and Eileen also took part. Read Tim's full report, with
picture.
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The
2005 BOTTLE CHALLENGE (a.k.a. Connoisseur's Cup)
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The Bottle Challenge is a level play golf croquet
competition for players with a handicap of 0 or less. This year the
players were Tim -3, Mike -2, Ray -1 & Chris, Barrie & Derek on 0.
The other eligible player, Nick -2, was not available. It was all-play-all
13-point games without time limit, starting at 9.45am, break for lunch at
the Lakeside, & finished approx. 5pm. All the games were long &
hard-fought, hardly surprising as the entrance was one bottle of wine,
winner takes all. The most memorable moment was Chris beating Tim 7-5.
Chris, Tim & Mike all had 4 wins out of 5 with Tim
winning on hoop difference. Chris was runner up and scored the most hoops.
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The Darker Side of Serious Croquet
One rather disturbing incident happened as I was watching the slow rythmic
swinging of a player's mallet and found myself drifting into a trance. I
suddenly realised what was happening. He was not taking aim, his aim was to
hypnotise the opponent! I decided the only way to combat this unscrupulous
behavior was to close my eyes before the swinging started. On past
experience I thought there was ample time for a little snooze before the
ball was finally struck but he obviously sensed something amiss (some
chance!), struck the ball on the first swing & shouted yes before I had
chance to open my eyes. I was quite impressed with his ability to move
effortlessly from one dubious tactic to another. As usual, there were
nit-picking claims yours truly had played the wrong balls. I was playing
the right
balls, but not necessarily in the right order. Surprising how players
always notice opponents' faults, rarely their own. There was even a
complaint about me stopping & picking up a moving ball during a game. I
was only examining the ball for defects as requested by the committee, but
with hindsight perhaps at the wrong moment.
(Report
by Mike)
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GOLF CROQUET INTER-CLUB NEWS:
East Dorset beat Tyneside
by 6 games to 1 in the semi-final held on our Moira lawns recently.
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Ashby
star in the Golf Croquet rankings
Ashby now has five players in the UK Golf Croquet rankings: Eileen Buxton (55), Derek
Buxton (41), Ray Mounfield (28), Mike O'Brian (26) and Tim King (7) (26th in the International
rankings). The indicated positions are for the rankings published on
22 August 2005.
Tim has been in the top twelve since 18 May, with a highest position of
6th (for about half of that period). Everyone apart from Tim will be
playing at the Yorkshire Open, another ranking event, and then Ray and Tim
will have a final chance to enhance their ranking positions when they play
in the English National Singles Championship (24 & 25 September).
(Report
by Tim)
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BANGERS
AND SMASHERS: The Musk Cup
The Musk
Cup is named for the sponsors, Musks of Newmarket, which
is a manufacturer of fine sausages. The owner is Chris Sheen, who is
one of the top English Golf Croquet players. The bangers and smashers
were a collection of top-ranked Golf Croquet players who gathered on the
weekend of 20 & 21 August to contest for the Cup. This is a
selection event, in principle bringing together the best available
players. The original plan was for eight players, although in the end
an administrative error led to the need to select twelve players, as
follows:
Bill Arliss (-2) -- 6-7 -- 8 wins -- 1st (beat Ivor Brand)
Don Beck (-3) -- 3-7
Ivor Brand (-4) -- 7-5 -- 6 wins
Alan Cottle (-3) -- 4-7
Chris Daniels (-3) -- 3-7 -- 8 wins -- 2nd
Ed Dymock (-3) -- 7-3 -- 6 wins -- 4th (on hoops difference)
Tim King (-3) -- 7 wins -- 3rd
John Moore (-2) -- 7-4
Nelson Morrow (-2) -- 7-4
Dick Strover (-3) -- 7-4
Roy Ware (-3) -- 7-6
Tom Weston (-2) -- 7-4 -- 6 wins
The score against each name is the one achieved by Tim King in the
all-play-all block of 13-point games. Bill Arliss showed his recent
improvement after a poor start to the season and came top of the block,
although Chris Daniels was the only player to have definitely qualified
before the last round of games. Tim King had to hang on for the last
results but in the end was in clear third place. This led to a
semi-final line up of Arliss versus Dymock and Daniels versus King.
Tim King lost his semi-final without offering more than minor resistance
(5-7, 3-7); Chris Daniels was in fine form all evening. Against
Ed Dymock, Bill Arliss was in stunning form, clearing balls at high speed
and with great accuracy. However, he could not quite make some tight
hoops run in his direction and he lost in three games. To a large
extent, Bill had run out of steam for the 3rd/4th play off and Tim King hit
good form to win 7-3, 7-0; third place in his first Musk Cup
appearance. Chris Daniels also never looked in serious danger of losing
the final and also won in two games. He certainly showed the most
consistency over the weekend and was the deserved Champion.
(Report
by Tim)
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NOTTINGHAM
TOURNAMENT
Derek enjoyed a successful week at the Nottingham
Tournament, reaching the semi-finals of both the Robin Hood Gold Cup and
the Handicap Doubles, and finishing as runner-up in the 'C' Level Singles.
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Extreme Croquet and no flamingoes!
Derek & Eileen, Geoff &
Marilyn and Dave were invited to play demonstration croquet and invite the
public to try Golf croquet at "The Mad-Hatter's Tea Party" held at
Belgrave Hall, Leicester, on Sunday August 21st.
It was an idyllic setting, an
old country hall in an English country garden. The sun shone all day. The
very shaded lawn we were allocated to play on measured 10 yards x 7yards!
About the size of an average lawn one would have at home. It was
surrounded by shrubberies on three sides. The equipment was a Jacques garden
set minus the black ball which someone had lost in the shrubbery sometime
prior to our visit. We did look for it but not knowing where it may have
"gone off" it proved fruitless! Fortunately we had taken a set of
secondaries, but now they didn't match the peg! However we played several
"demo games" and showed several families how to play a very
constricted version of the game, keeping our eye on the balls when they
looked as though they may run into the undergrowth!
A bonus for us was that we had
time to wander around the gardens, enjoy a talk on the history of tea
drinking, taste some teas, eat some jam tarts (made by The Queen of Hearts no
less!), and inspect an old wheeled sedan chair and a Brougham (2 seater
closed coach).
As you can see the event had
been well named. In all it was a very relaxing day, and we had a good day
out. (Report
by Eileen)
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INTER-COUNTIES REPORT
After a disappointing first day, Leicestershire (an all-Ashby
team!) fought back to qualify for the semi-finals of the Golf Croquet Inter-Counties
held at Southwick (Sussex) - an excellent achievement on their first attempt
at this national competition. For details and comprehensive statistics by Tim
(click on
the "Cancel" button if prompted to download Japanese Text Display
Support) click
here.
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The GRASS ROOTS regional
final was played at Moira on Saturday, August 13th. The weather was
atrocious! Eight players from Sapcote, Southwell and North Hykeham played 5
rounds of Golf croquet progressive doubles.
The semis saw Dawn Corrigan ( N Hykeham) beat Christine Ryder (Sapcote) 7-2;
and Derek Blow (Southwell) beat Carole Salt also 7-2.
Dawn beat Derek again 7-2 in the final. Well-done Dawn!
The Final was a bit of an anti-climax as everyone had gone home except the
two players, two of the spectators and the manager. The rain had been
relentless and everyone was soaked to the skin!
My thanks to Geoffrey and Marilyn for setting out the lawns; to Mr & Mrs
Corrigan for help in taking in the hoops after the match; and Joyce Critchley
and Mrs Corrigan for clearing Lawn 3 during the afternoon.
The crowd was huge numbering 10 in all! The winner goes through to the
national final at Solihull in September.
(Report by
Eileen)
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The ASHBY "A" (Golf Croquet)
team continue their unbeaten run in the East Midlands League.
On Thursday 4th August they played Sapcote (at home). The
result was 11-1, to Ashby "A" ... this in spite of
the Sapcote team being strengthened by the introduction of Pat Wright (ex
Kenilworth player). It was a very enjoyable afternoon - finished off
with salmon sandwiches and scones with strawberries and cream!
Then on Monday 8th August Ashby "A" were AWAY to Ashby "B".
There were a number of very close games - but the "A" team (Mike,
Ray & Chris) came out on top, beating the "B" team (Tim, Derek
& Marilyn) 9½ - 2½. It was as well that the match started
at 5.30, because the light was fading by the end of play. The spread
laid on by Ashby "B" was much appreciated, as was the wine,
provided by Mike.
(Report by
Ray)
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The regional final of the ALL ENGLAND GOLF CROQUET HANDICAP
was held at Moira recently. Mick Haytack finished in second place, and goes
through to the national final at Nailsea in September.
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The CLIVE PEARSON
DOUBLES was won by Ray and Eileen with 4 wins out of 4. Click here for results.
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LONGMAN CUP: Ashby 6 - 1 Tyneside
Ashby's Longman Cup team of Derek, Tim, Geoff and Marilyn had a good 6
- 1 win against Tyneside.
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Results (Ashby names first):
Derek Buxton (11) & Marilyn Murray (20) beat Derek Watts (3.5) &
Nora Burbridge (12) +25
Tim King (6) lost to Peter Wallace (10) -22
Geoff Ellott (18) beat Sheila Watts (7) +19
King beat D Watts +22
Buxton beat S Watts +11
Ellott beat Wallace +20
Murray beat Burbridge +20
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ASHBY ANNIVERSARY SHIELD
Seven players competed in the 2005 Anniversary Shield on Saturday 30th July. No
major surprises this year: the two highest-rated players, Noel Penn-Davis and
Tim King, won their respective
groups and made it through to the final. Tim was on top form, giving his
opponents very few chances, and had an easy 14-3 win in the final against
Noel. Tim wins the trophy for the third time. Many thanks to Mick for
organising the event so efficiently - even finishing by 5.30 pm! More details and pictures
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ASCOT CUP REPORT
The heats for the English National Golf Croquet Singles Championship
were held on July 23/24th. The Southern heat was played at Compton. The
Northern heat, ours, was at Southport. The Southport Club members were very
hospitable; we were all made to feel very welcome. The management was very
good and the games ran smoothly.
Five Ashby members took part. (Tim, Derek, Ray, Mike and Eileen).
After two days of intensive play, Tim was the overall winner.
Three people will now go through to the Finals in Colchester on
Sept.24/25th. Due to some of the three winners now being unavailable on
that weekend the actual three have yet to be named.
We haven't received the official scoresheet from the tournament manager.
WATCH THIS SPACE!
The Tournament was not without drama. Two other players were the only other
entrants, disappointingly only seven people entered this heat.
After the first day of play one of the players decided he had no chance of
winning so went home! The other players had entreated him to stay to no
avail.This left the other six players to carry on. In the passage of time
it would appear that with some finalists not able to play at Colchester
this player may well have won a place. Ah!
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It is the opinion of some of the players that this
player should be reported to the C.A.under the Tournament Regulations
(page 21;P3 (h) Late withdrawal.) The player should be liable to
disciplinary action so should be reported forthwith by the manager.
This may appear to be harsh, but we spent a weekend in Southport to play
mainly Ashby players! We could have done this at Ashby at less cost in time
and money!
Ho! Hum!
Eileen
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A Mike O'Brian jump shot in mid-air
(Photo by Tim)
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The final positions from the Northern Ascot
Cup heat at Southport are as follows:
1st Tim King 11 wins
2nd Mike O'Brian 9 wins
3rd Ray Mounfield 7 wins (beat John +1,+5)
4th John Moore 7 wins
5th Derek Buxton 6 wins
6th Eileen Buxton 1 win (results against Par -9,+10
deemed)
7th Par Badhan 1 win
So Tim, Mike and Ray qualify for the finals at Colchester on September 24th
and 25th. Congratulations to them. The full list of the matches that were
played is given below:
Saturday 23rd July:
Mike O'Brian beat Par Badhan 10-6
Tim King beat Eileen Buxton 10-3
Derek Buxton beat Ray Mounfield 10-5
Tim King beat Derek Buxton 10-2
Ray Mounfield beat Par Badhan 10-7
John Moore beat Eileen Buxton 10-5
Derek Buxton beat Eileen Buxton 10-2
Mike O'Brian beat John Moore 10-9
Tim King beat Par Badhan 10-8
Par Badhan beat Eileen Buxton 10-1
John Moore beat Derek Buxton 10-7
Ray Mounfield beat Mike O'Brian 10-6
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Ray Mounfield beat John
Moore 10-9
Tim King beat Mike O'Brian 10-7
Derek Buxton beat Par Badhan 10-8
Tim King beat Ray Mounfield 10-8
John Moore beat Par Badhan 10-7
Mike O'Brian beat Eileen Buxton 10-2
Mike O'Brian beat Derek Buxton 10-7
Ray Mounfield beat Eileen Buxton 10-6
John Moore beat Tim King 10-7
Sunday 24th July:
Mike O'Brian beat Derek Buxton 10-2
Ray Mounfield beat Eileen Buxton 10-8
Tim King beat John Moore 10-8
John Moore beat Derek Buxton 10-6
Tim King beat Ray Mounfield 10-7
Mike O'Brian beat Eileen Buxton 10-8
Derek Buxton beat Eileen Buxton 10-8
Tim King beat Mike O'Brian 10-4
Ray Mounfield beat John Moore 10-5
Derek Buxton beat Ray Mounfield 10-6
Mike O'Brian beat John Moore 10-6
Tim King beat Eileen Buxton 10-4
Tim King beat Derek Buxton 10-3
John Moore beat Eileen Buxton 10-6
Mike O'Brian beat Ray Mounfield 10-7
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MAX MORRIS HANDICAP SINGLES
The Max Morris trophy was hastily arranged, but attracted a good turnout
of 12 despite the short notice. Congratulations to Ray who won the competition
for the first time - the third member of the Mounfield family to get their
name on the trophy! Click here for
more details and a picture.
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ASHBY WINS 26 point EAST MIDLANDS LEAGUE AT LAST
After several years in which we
finished a very close second or third, Ashby finally gets its name on the
26-point regional trophy with a clean sweep of victories in our matches
against Nottingham, Woodhall Spa and Leicester. We had a squad of six players,
allowing each person to play a singles game and a doubles game, and then sit
out the third game - a tactic which seemed to work!
Our first match, against the
home side Nottingham, was a lot closer than the 3-0 scoreline suggests - two
of the three games being decided by just one point after time was called -
and in the end the results of these games proved to be pivotal to the outcome
of the whole competition.
The tournament success means
that Ashby will now compete in next year's Secretary's Shield - a national
tournament for the winning clubs of the regional tournaments.
For
more details and full results click here.
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ASHBY B v SAPCOTE report
Eileen, Marilyn and Geoff played Sapcote in the East Midlands Golf Croquet
League on Sunday, July 10th. Ashby won 9-3. The matches were
hard-fought by both teams on an extremely hot afternoon. An excellent tea was
enjoyed by all. The Sapcote visitors thanked us for the games and
hospitality. We hope to invite the members of Sapcote C.C. to come for a
social afternoon in the near future.
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Member and Guest
Golf Croquet Competition report
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An excellent evening
of Croquet followed by a delicious barbecue was enjoyed by our members and
their guests on Thursday, July 7th. Rain did threaten but we only had a
short, light shower, early in the evening.
Thanks go to Mike,
Margaret and Ray who organised the event. An excellent BBQ was cooked
by John Adey (is there no end to this man's talents!). Time-keeping and
scoring was competently handled by Margaret.
Twelve pairs, each of a member
and a guest, played in blocks of six in an all-play-all format. Each block
played all its matches on one designated lawn.
The competition was won by
Mick Haytack and his son Ben with 3 wins out of 3, and running 18
hoops in total. Tim King and his guest Ian were very close runners-up also
with 3 wins, but managing "only" 17 hoops. The winning team also
conceded only 7 hoops compared with the runners-up 10. Well played all of
you.
(Report by
Mike and Eileen 08/07/05)
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INTER_CLUB GOLF CROQUET REPORT
Tyneside
gave Ashby
the respect of fielding their strongest team for the Inter-Club golf croquet
knock-out match. The welcome was friendly as always but friendship did not count
when play began. It is sufficient to say Ashby were comprehensively beaten 7-0.
Christine Mounfield deserves a mention for pitching in to battle in her
first ranking match, giving her opponents a good fight.
EAST MIDS GOLF CROQUET LEAGUE REPORT
A busy weekend for Ashby golf croquet teams, 'A' team at Southwell, 'B' team
at Woodhall Spa then all (or almost all) on to Newcastle for the inter-club
match aginst Tyneside.
Ashby
'A' were made very welcome at Southwell, where the
outcome of the fixture wasn't decided until the last round of games ... in
which Ashby A managed to win all three, giving an overall result
of 8-4
in Ashby's favour. Star performer (woman of the match!) was Chris - who
won all of her games.
Ashby
'B' could only manage a 6-6 result at Woodhall Spa.
Woodhall's Nigel Harding devised a game plan to shoot at the hoop whenever he
was in front no matter what angle or distance and proved remakably adroit. Tom Brant played steadily as ever but needed
a (some may say) fortunate ricochet to score hoop 13 in the final game and
save the half.
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The FARRANT SALVER was won by Mick
Haytack. Details
here.
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Tim King and Roy Ware win
the Golf Croquet Open Doubles Championship. CA
report
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14 point ASSOCIATION LEAGUE RESULT
(played on June 16th)
Northampton 2 - 5 Ashby
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ASHBY "A" GOLF CROQUET RESULTS
Ashby
"A" Golf Croquet team played their second
match of the season on Sunday 19th June. In almost tropical heat the
Ashby team won convincingly (11 games to 1) against Long Eaton,
who were impressed by the quality (and speed!) of our lawns. Last
month's away fixture at Northampton gave
a 9 1/2 to 2 1/2 win to Ashby "A", the team
adjusting well to half-size, quirky lawns and a somewhat fraught
journey! (Report by Ray)
(22/06/05)
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ALL ENGLAND GOLF CROQUET HANDICAP
RESULT OF CLUB HEAT
The Ashby CC heat of the All England Golf Croquet Handicap
was held on Sunday at Moira. Christine Mounfield and Mick Haytack both won 3
of their 4 games, but as Chris beat Mick 7 - 3 in their game, it is Chris who
progresses to the regional final, to be held at Moira on August 6th. The
national final will take place at Nailsea on September 24th and 25th.
(13/06/05)
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Christine Mounfield won the Perry Bowl ladies'
tournament. Details here.
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The Ashby heat of The Centre Stage
Golf Croquet Competition was held at Moira on Sunday, June 5th.
Christine beat Eileen 7-4 ; 7-2 Mick beat Marilyn 7-1; 7-6 Mick
beat Eileen 7-1;7-6 Chris beat Marilyn 7-4 ; 5-7; 7-6
Chris beat Mick 7-2; 7-3 Marilyn beat Eileen1-7;7-4; 7-6 Chris
was a worthy winner and goes through to the final on September10th/11th at
Solihull.
(15/06/05)
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LONGMAN CUP RESULT: 2nd Round
NORTHAMPTON
2 - 5 ASHBY
(Ashby names first)
Derek Buxton (10) & Marilyn Murray (20) beat Les Carrick (8) & Tim
Bunn (16) +7T
Mick Haytack (16) beat Roy Sheffield (11) +12
Geoff Ellott (20) beat James Skelton (4) +5
Derek Buxton lost to James Skelton -19
Mick Haytack beat Les Carrick +20
Geoff Ellott beat Roy Sheffield +14
Marilyn Murray lost to Tim Bunn -11T
Ashby will now face Tyneside
in the third round, to be played at Moira on SUnday 31st July.
(24/07/05)
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MATCH REPORT: 14pt Association League v
Southwell Saturday June 4th In spite of the ever
present black clouds overhead, rain just about stayed off at Southwell on
Saturday. Ashby nudged ahead by winning two out of the three first round
matches but unfortunately lost three out of four in the second round and so
went down 3 - 4 in the match. Congratulations to Southwell for a good
result in their re-introduction to this competition. Well done to Marilyn for
winning both of her matches and many thanks to Eileen for bringing forward
her Association "debut" to enable us to field a team for the match.
Jeremy
(06/06/05)
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Vi-King raid: a Norwegian Croquet experience by
Tim King
Moss, Norway. May 15, 2005
As previously announced on the Croquet Association website, the Norwegian
Croquet Association hosted the Jeloy Grand Tournament 2005 including the
first Nordic Championships and Open events. Both the Championships and
the Open events had competition in both Association and Golf Croquet to the
current World Croquet Federation (WCF) rules. The results featured domination
by one nation (Sweden) and one individual (Tim King).
The President of the WCF, David Openshaw, had accepted an invitation to
attend the Tournament in order to encourage further development of croquet
worldwide; Sweden is already a member of the WCF but pan-Nordic croquet
seems most likely to prosper in the context of the global croquet family and
Norway and Finland have submitted applications to participate in the WCF... Read more
(16/05/05)
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ONE BALL
CROQUET TOURNAMENT
The One Ball competition was won by Derek. Click here for results and pictures.
(02/05/05)
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MORE GOLF CROQUET
SUCCESS
Tim King was runner-up in last
weekend's Lancashire
Open losing in the fifth game of a thrilling final against
Ian Lines, a member of the England team who were victorious in the
Solomon Trophy in America earlier this month. Well done to Tim putting Ashby
more firmly on the map and doing lots of good to his standing in the Golf
Croquet World. For more details click
here.
Tim also finished in the top ten in the Surbiton Golf Croquet Tournament
earlier in the month.
(19/04/05)
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WELCOME
TO THE NEW ASHBY CROQUET CLUB WEBSITE
Please visit the site regularly to keep up-to-date with events. All
contributions to the site welcome - please e-mail the webmaster if there is anything that you would like included. As time
progresses, I plan to expand the Tournaments section to include some
information about each competition, and league and tournament results when
they come in.
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