The CCA play-offs of the Don Reyland Stars Tournament were played Sunday 17 February 2019 at Elmwood Croquet Club.

The winner was not decided until the very last round, with 5/6 people having a chance at winning the play offs coming into the last round.

The winner was Josh Winter (Cashmere) from Alan Belcher (Hornby) on net points as each had the same number of wins.

Josh will represent Canterbury in the national final to be played at the Morrinsville Croquet Club Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 March 2019. The winner receives a gold star and the runner-up receives a silver star. The Don Reylands Starts Tournament is a golf croquet handicap singles tournament played at club, association and national events.

The association play-offs for the Arthur Ross Memorial Event was played at Barrington Park Croquet Club on Sunday 10 February 2019.

John Hearnshaw (United) beat Leo van Oosten (Holmes Park) in hot conditions in a best-of-3 match. The game scores were 26-5, 26-5.

John will represent Canterbury in the national final of the Arthur Ross Memorial Event to be held at the Kelburn croquet club, in Wellington Friday 15 to Sunday 17 March.

The Arthur Ross Memorial Event is an AC handicap singles event where club winners compete in an association competition and the association winners compete in the national final.

There were 12 associations represented at the 2018 final that was played at Morrinsville Croquet Club.

We wish John good luck in the final.

There were 8 entries for the CCA AC Handicap Singles so was double banked using both Holmes Park’s lawns on the weekend 19-20 January.

It was run as two blocks with a super final where players played the equivalent ranked player in the other block giving two games on each day.

The lawns were in very good condition and the food was tasty and plentiful.  The weather was very pleasant although the norwester made Saturday afternoon hot and gusty.

Both Peter Couch and John Hearnshaw won all three games in their respective blocks with Peter winning the cup for a sixth time making the Golden Hoop when scores were tied fourteen all at the end of regular play.

Full results are on CroquetScores at https://croquetscores.com/2019/ac/cca-handicap-singles.
See past winners at croquetcanterbury.com/ac-handicap-singles/

The draw, contact information, rules and reporting sheets are now on the website at https://croquetcanterbury.com/atkins-trophy/.
The draw has been updated from the original draw that was sent to clubs a few days ago.

The new Twilight GC interclub draw, contact information, rules and reporting sheets are now on the website at https://croquetcanterbury.com/twilight-gc/
There will be some changes as some teams have withdrawn.

The AC grades were played on the 5 and 6 January 2019  at St Martins Croquet  Club in some very hot conditions with 13 entries (2 from South Canterbury) split into 3 grades.

The tournament was managed by Jonathan Hart who also played.

0 to 3 (4 entries)

Graham Simpson (South Canterbury) won all his games and the event. Runner up was John Hearnshaw.

4 to 8 (6 entries)

Jonathan Hart also won all his games to win the event. Geraldine Murphy and Owen Evans won three of their five games, but Geraldine was runner up on net points.

9 to 16 (3 entries)

This event was played as a double round robin. Lyn Dawson and Bob Eathorne won three of their four games but Lyn won on net points.

More detailed results can be found on croquet scores: croquetscores.com/2019/ac/cca-grades

Congratulations to Jenny Clarke who has had a great week by winning the Australian AC Open held in Cairnlea, Victoria.

She beat Australian Alison Sharpe in a four-game final.

All results are on Croquet Scores which also has commentaries on games two, three and four of the final.

Jenny and Trevor Bassett also won the Australian AC Doubles beating Alison Sharpe and Jim Nicholls in the final.

Doubles results are also on Croquet Scores.

The CNZ South Island AC Championship will be played in Canterbury Wednesday 12 to Sunday 16 December 2018. Headquarters is United Croquet Club and other clubs may be used if required. Canterbury players are encouraged to enter. You can enter via the CNZ website.

Events will be:

• Open Doubles
• Open Singles
• Singles 0 to 3
• Singles 4 and over

Billets

Accommodation is needed for players entering the Championships.  We are canvassing players right across the country to enter this event. As you will appreciate, travelling from another part of the country to play in a croquet competition may be a fair hunk of dosh, so we can make it easier for players to enter if some kind members of our croquet fraternity could host some players as billets for this event. Please let our Accommodation Officer know what may be offered. You may charge for a billet, typically between $30 and $50. To be negotiated.
Contact Owen Evans, phone: 338 8294, email: ogevans@xtra.co.nz

Here is the October CCA newsletter.

Earlier newsletters are available here.

The draws for the AC Interclub, GC Interclub, Johnson Memorial and the GC Knock-out were distributed to clubs at the Club Captains’ meeting on Saturday 22 September held at United Club.

The draws are now on the website and can be viewed online or downloaded for printing.

Details are on the web pages below:
GC Interclub begins Friday 5 October (12 Oct for division 1)

GC Knock-out begins Sunday 7 October
AC Interclub begins on Tuesday 9 October 2018
Johnson Memorial begins Saturday 13 October

On Sunday 23 September 2018 South Canterbury and Canterbury competed in the annual AC inter-provincial.

The Canterbury team was: John Yarrall, Owen Evans, Ian Campbell, Neville Turner, Leo Van Oosten, Alan Cook, Sally Jeffcott, Marguaritte Rogers (Captain), Patsy Clegg, Carol Kidd, Bruce McLay and Rosalind Thomson.

A great day was had by all. So, Basil was once again retained by Canterbury after some well fought-out games. A huge thanks to Raylene Coles and her team from the Waireka club who hosted and kept us watered and fed. A big thanks to the South Canterbury team who challenged Canterbury in every way.

The tournament was played as doubles with three 2-hour games that stopped on the bell. The winning team is the one with the greatest number of hoops. Canterbury scored 196 to 159 for South Canterbury.

2018 Inter-provincial Results