Some more great results for Canterbury 

Congratulations to all who participated in the two tournaments below. A great indication of the strength of Canterbury GC Croquet 

CNZ National Golf Croquet Singles  

Played at Heretaunga Croquet Club, Havelock North Sunday 3^rd to Sunday 10^th January 2021.

Winner: Duncan Dixon from United

Runner-up: Josh Winter from Cashmere

Results at https://croquetscores.com/2021/gc/cnz-nationals-hawkes-bay

CNZ 3+ Golf Croquet

Played in Taranaki Friday 8^th to Sunday 10^th January 2021.

Winner:- Claire Horncastle from Fendalton

3^rd: Flynn Moses-Jones from Cashmere

4^th: Gay Jones from Cashmere

Results at https://croquetscores.com/2021/gc/cnz-3

Canterbury triumph (and just quietly Cashmere Club)

Josh Winter and Levi Franks have WON the NZ GC doubles title today. They only lost 2 games from the 20 played. The final was played as best of 5 and won 3 – 0 

Myles and James Duggan finished 5th winning the Bowl. 

A great result and we now wait with interest for the singles, starting tomorrow. 

Results are on Croquet Scores at croquetscores.com/2021/gc/cnz-nationals-hawkes-bay

The CCA GC Handicap Doubles tournament was held on Sunday 22 November 2020 at Fendalton Park Croquet Club.

20 players making up 10 pairs took part in the GC Doubles Handicap tournament on a day that had a variety of weather conditions – rain, wind, sun, more rain and wind etc. All credit to the players who braved the elements in their wet gear and continued playing in some dreadful conditions. The sportsmanlike attitude was great and the afternoon ended with some sunshine.

Play was two blocks of 5 pairs with a playoff game at the end from players in each block.

Neville Turner and Ivan Hayward (Rangiora) won 4 games in their block as did Alister and Hilda Newey (Rangiora) in their block. The deciding game was won by Alister and Hilda with Neville and Ivan then being the runners up. Third place was fiercely contested by Gae Keng and Joan Bradford (Fendalton) against Owen Evans and Mel Stevenson (Cashmere) with Gae and Joan taking third place.

Thanks to all the players who took part – without them there would have been no competition.

Sunday 23 February saw the sun shine on the GC Handicap Singles at Fendalton Park Croquet Club.

Lawns were a bit wet to start, thanks to cooling rain the previous evening, but dried up during the day.

There were 8 entries, but two withdrawals meant only 6 players on the day. Competition was a round robin with everyone playing 5 thirteen hoop, untimed games.

There was a great atmosphere and lovely attitude from the players. Competition was close and it was up to the final games to determine the winner.

Winner was Lyn McKinnon from Cashmere, and Runner-up with a one point net hoop difference was Eileen Arnett from St Martins.

Four players battled it out on Sunday 9^th February for the right to represent the CCA at the national Don Reyland finals  at Rose Gardens in Palmerston North 14^th and 15^th March.

The day started cool and fresh with dew glistening on the lawn, just right for a day of serious croquet. The four players were soon into it and some serious competition followed. The small group of spectators were treated to some great displays of croquet at its best, and the time sped by. Myles Duggan (Cashmere) was the winner, with Cheryl Hopley as runner up. The other two contestants, Linda Humphreys (Fendalton Park) and Maggie Croy (Holmes Park), were worthy competition.

Results are at https://croquetscores.com/2020/gc/cca-don-reyland-stars

The final of the World Golf Croquet Team Championship between New Zealand and Egypt will be streamed this weekend on the Sky Sport Next YouTube channel which can be found at:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaOvfE-4N9pm_36a2NYB8yw/featured

The eight teams of four have played in Nelson in two blocks with the top two teams from each block to go into a knockout semifinal and then the final on this weekend the 11th and 12th of January.

Egypt won its block with the United States runner-up: in the other block New Zealand won with England runner-up.  The other teams were South Africa and Sweden in the first block and Australia and Ireland.

Egypt comfortably won its semi-final against England. New Zealand won its semi-final against USA in a close-fought test.

Youth is to the forefront with the oldest Egyptian being 31 and the defending champions, New Zealand, having a team under 30.

Three of the New Zealand team have won the Under 21 World Golf Croquet Championship Josh Freeth (2015), Felix Webby (2017), Edmund Fordyce (2019) whilst Duncan Dixon has won the national title many times.  Also three of the team are members of the United club with Felix being the exception.

Results will be at https://croquetscores.com/2020/gc/world-teams-championship-4

The 2020 GC World Team Championship Tier 1 is being held at Nelson from Monday 6 to Sunday 12 January 2020. There are eight four-player teams from New Zealand, Egypt, Australia, England, South Africa, USA, Sweden and Ireland.

The New Zealand team is Duncan Dixon, Edmund Fordyce, Joshua Freeth and Felix Webby.

The championship started with block play. There are two blocks of four teams. Each test consists of eight best-of-three matches. Block play ended Wednesday and NZ won all three tests losing only two matches.

Full results are at https://croquetscores.com/2020/gc/world-teams-championship-4

Read the Stuff article at https://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/118613887/croquets-gc-greats-descend-on-nelson-for-world-championships

The Swedish team spend several days playing at United Croquet Club where they also played a team of Canterbury U17 players on Thursday 2 January. Results of this match is at https://croquetscores.com/2020/gc/sweden-v-canterbury-u17

The original posting had some errors:
1. The location was incorrectly given as Napirt
2. USA is participating, not the Finland
3. The Swedish team practiced at United, not Finland