Peter Parkinson wins the CCA AC Open

Association Croquet, Tournament

Peter Parkinson (Rangiora) won the 2018 CCA AC Open Singles that was played at St James Park croquet club Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 January 2018. Marguaritte Rogers (St James Park) was runner up, losing only to Peter. There were eight players with handicaps from -2.5 to +2.5. The manager was Rodger Lane.

The start on Saturday was late as the heavy rain the day before had flooded the lawns and hoop setting had to be deferred until Saturday morning.

Most players found the tight hoops a challenge as well as the wind on Saturday. Sunday was a perfect day for croquet with the lawns drying out and becoming faster.

Full results are on Croquet Scores at https://croquetscores.com/2018/ac/canterbury-croquet-assn-open/block-a

(CCA AC Open page)

Peter Parkinson, winner of the 2018 CCA AC Open
Marguaritte Rogers, runner-up of the 2018 CCA AC Open

The CCA AC Open Doubles will be played at St James on Friday 12 January 2018.

Other tournaments

The CCA AC Grade Singles will be played at Barrington Park Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 January 2018.

The NZ Open will be played at United Saturday 20 to Sunday 28 January 2018.

 

Report on the NZ Under 21 Champs

Golf Croquet, Tournament

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

 

Entries open for CCA AC Open, AC Grades and Carol Hayward

Association Croquet, Tournament

Entries are open for the following competitions starting in January 2018:

CCA AC Open Singles Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 January at St James Park

CCA AC Open Doubles Thursday 11 and Friday 12 January at St James Park

CCA AC Grades Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 January at Barrington and Cashmere

CCA Carol Hayward on six Tuesdays 30 January to 13 March at United and Elmwood.

Click on the links above for more details and for entry forms.

Under 21 National GC starts at United

Golf Croquet, Tournament

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

Entries open for the Maud Trainor GC Handicap Singles

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MAUD TRAINOR 2018
Entries are open for 2018 to be held at United Croquet Club on five Fridays from 1 February 2018 to 2 March 2018.

To be eligible, players must have been born before 26 January 1956. To win you must play at least 8 of the 10 games.

Two one-hour handicap singles games will be played each morning, starting at 9:45am with a break between for eating, drinking and socialising.

Cost is $4 per morning.Please give 24-hours notice if you can’t attend any morning.

Entries should be with Philippa Port by 19 January 2018. You can enter online here.

GC Handicap Doubles results

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The CCA Golf Croquet Doubles Tournament was held at Fendalton Park Croquet Club on Sunday 3 December 2017.

A field of 16 pairs from a number of clubs in Canterbury – Cashmere, Hornby, St James, St Martins, Holmes Park, Fendalton, and Waireka from Ashburton took part in the tournament on a very hot day.

There was a great spirit among the players and it was heartening to observe senior players encouraging and instructing junior handicap players in the tournament. There were two blocks with timed games and each pair played 7 games in total.

The final was between Caitlin Smith and Jackie Rollinson (granddaughter and grandmother combo) from Ashburton against Owen and Janet Evans from Cashmere. Caitlin and Jackie walked away with the trophy after a very close game.

Third place went to Beryl Atkins and Tony Waters from Cashmere and 4th place to Jono Hart (St James) and Mike Bunce (St Martins)

Thanks to all the participants, as without them there wouldn’t be a competition.

Vilna Gough-Jones
Tournament Manager

Tournament page

Update to interclub competitions

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AC Interclub (one division)

Full results

Monday
Winner: United (Geraldine Murphy, Bruce Mclay, Pam Hurst, Mary Morrison)Runner-up: Rangiora (Carol Kidd, Leone Woodward, Neville Turner, Lyn Turner)

Tuesday
Winner: St James Park (Graham Button, Diana Howes, Koreene Fowler, Patsy Clegg)
Runner-up: St Martins (Max Joines, Marion Hastie, Jean Shewan, ?)

Final
The final between the block winners was played on Tuesday 5 December; a scorchingly hot day at United. The game score was 3-3 but United won with 4 net points.

GC Interclub

Full results

Division 1:
Winner: Hornby
Runner up : Akaroa

Division 2:
Winner: Fendalton Park A
Runner up: Hornby

Division 3:
Winner: Cashmere
Runner up: Hornby

Once again there were very hot playing conditions for the Division 2 and Division 3 Playoffs.

Johnson Memorial

Full results

Block results
Blue:
Winner: St James (Jono Hart, Marguaritte Rogers)
Runner-up: Holmes Park (Allan Cook, Rita Yardley)
Red:
Winner: St James (Patsy Clegg, Koreene Fowler)
Runner-up: United (Sally Jeffcott, Kevin Cusack)
Black:
Winner: Rangiora (Neville Turner, Lyn Turner)
Runner-up: United (Geraldine Murphy, Pam Hurst)
Yellow:
Winner: United (Tony O’Donnell, Lena Metcalf)
Runner-up: Barrington (Hugh  Thomson, Gretchen Tong)

Again the playoffs were played under hot sunshine and on fast lawns at United.

Semifinals:
United Yellow beat St James Blue
Rangiora Black beat St James Red

Final
United Yellow (with Tony Thompson standing in for Lena) beat Rangiora Black 8-6

Results of the CCA GC Handicap Singles

Golf Croquet

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.