There were 24 entries in the 2018 Maud Trainor that was played as a flexible Swiss.
Betty Inglewood of Fendalton Park won with a win percentage of 80%
Vilna Gough-Jones of Fendalton Park was Runner-up with a win percentage of 75%.
Full results are on CroquetScores.
Note that the results are displayed as a block, not as a Swiss event, and percentage wins must be calculated manually.
Past results are here.
The January 2018 CCA newsletter has been sent out to all Canterbury club secretaries. It is also available to download here.
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The Atkins draw, rules and results reporting form are now on the CCA website.
There are four blocks with block play on Saturday 10, 17 and 24 February 2018 followed by a final at United on Saturday 17 March 2018.
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The Arthur Ross competition is a handicap singles association croquet event that is played at club, association and national level.
Representatives from Canterbury clubs will meet at the association playoff on Saturday 3 February 2018 at Elmwood Croquet Club.
The National playoff will be at Morrinsville from Friday 2 to Sunday 4 March.
The Don Reylands Stars is a handicap singles golf croquet event that is played at club, association and national level.
Representatives from Canterbury clubs will meet at the association playoff on Sunday 4 February 2018 at Hornby Croquet Club.
The national playoff, with one representative from each NZ association will be played at Fendalton Park Croquet Club Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 March 2018.
The world AC championship will be played in and around Wellington 3-11 February. Most of the players in the NZ Open at United last week will be there. You can follow results on CroquetScores.
The qualifying tournament for the last few places is being played in Palmerston North Tuesday 30 January to Thursday 1 February 2018. You can follow results on CroquetScores. At the time of writing Cantabrian Ian Campbell has won both of the games he has played so far.
This year, the NZ U-21 Champs were held at United in Christchurch over four days. The first six hours of day 1 were set aside for coaching over 30 youngsters with Greg Bryant, Jarrod Coutts and Phillip Drew being lead coaches. At 3pm, the doubles event started with 40 players ranging from 13 to 20 years of age. The lawns were playing in excess of 12 seconds and with fresh hoop holes and temperatures approaching 30 degrees, the conditions were challenging. The youngsters adapted well and history shows that playing in difficult conditions early on in your croquet life can be a big advantage.
In one semi-final, Felix Webby, partnering Alex Bennett, twice ran hoop 13 from the boundary to beat Lachy Hughes and Charlie Sharpe (Aus) 7-6, 6-7, 7-6. Chris Spittal and Kaleb Small from Mt. Hutt School had an easier win in the other semi 7-3, 7-6 against Jeff Gatchell and Jason Hodgett. Throughout the event, Spittal and Small showed balanced tactical decision making and good positional skills.
The final was another nail-biter, going to the deciding third game. Chris and Kaleb led 6-4, but Alex was the one to run a short hoop 13 to win the Championship.
The singles started on day 3 with 37 players. Te Kiri King and Seth Garrison both performed better than their handicaps to qualify for the knockout where the semi-finalists were Felix Webby playing Kaleb Small and Charlie Sharpe (Aus) playing Edmund Fordyce. Kaleb continued his good form to become the first player to take a game off Felix whilst Edmund won in two close games against Charlie. We therefore had the expected top two seeds reach the final – the U21 World Champion against the NZ Open Champion. Most spectators thought Felix was favourite, despite the fact that Edmund had not dropped a game in the singles and it appeared that they were correct as a one sided first game went to Felix 7-1 who ran 3 and 4 in the same stroke.
The rest of the match saw Edmund produce a much higher level of shooting with both players struggling with some positional shots despite slower lawns due to cooler conditions. Edmund won the remaining two games 7-5, 7-2 to add the U21 title to his National one.
Grace Mohi beat Paul Kaiser in the Plate final and Ellie Ross who finished 5th is a player I expect to represent NZ teams in the future.
The entire 4 days were played in good spirit. Thanks very much to everyone who made this great event possible.
Chris Clarke
Tournament Manager
The New Zealand Under 21 GC tournament started on Saturday 16 December 2017 at 3:30pm. The day started with coaching led by Greg Bryant. The tournament is being managed by Chris Clarke.
Doubles, with 20 pairs in four blocks, will be played Saturday morning and Sunday starting at 8:30am.
Singles, with 38 entries, will be played Monday and Tuesday starting at 8:30am.
More details of the format can be found at https://croquetscores.com/2017/gc/cnz-u-21-nationals/commentaries/11521
Results are at https://croquetscores.com/2017/gc/cnz-u-21-nationals
The CCA GC Handicap SIngles tournament was held at Homes Park Croquet club on Sunday 15 October 2017. It was managed by Chris Clarke.
It was run as two blocks of four with the top two from each block playing a supersection and the rest playing a consolation supersection.
In the Blue block, Rosalind Thomson won all her games but the Red block was much closer with three players winning two games.
The consolation supersection was another close block with three players winning two games.
The winner of the tournament was Gus Fernhout of St Martins and the runner-up Rosalind Thomson of United.
Detailed results are on Croquet Scores.
Go to the tournament page for past winners.
Tony O’Donnell, CCA Senior GC Referee, is offering a morning seminar on Golf Croquet Rules.
Where: United Croquet Club
When: 10am-11:30am Sunday 17 September 2017
Bring: Paper and pencil
Download poster: GC Rules Poster 2017
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