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The weekend proved to be a popular event with 7 clubs taking part. Bury St Edmunds, Downham Market and Newport entered teams for both the Saturday and the Sunday. Finalists on the Saturday were Leighton Linslade Team 1 (Richard Keighley and John Cundell) and Downham Market Team 2 (Linda and Martin Ambrose). The winners were Leighton Linslade. Finalists on Sunday were Norwich Team 2 (Sarah Barley and Ann Tallowin) and Newport Team 1 (Pat Marks and John Sibson). The winners were Norwich. People seemed to enjoy getting out for a game of croquet in the winter. I hope the event continues to be popular. |
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Tony Marks |
For the first time a new format was tried. Instead of the usual entry of pairs representing clubs, individual players were entered with each player given a different partner in each round, the winner being the player involved in the most winning games. The new format was voted a success, although perhaps with more enthusiasm on Sunday than on Saturday when it was still bedding down. The general view was that it could be tried again on one weekend the following season. Particularly welcome was the number of new high handicap players who entered.
The winner on Saturday was Jonathan Hills with 5 wins out of 5 and Terry Mahoney was runner up with 4 out of 5. On Sunday the winner was Paul Stevenson with Terry Mahoney again the runner up.
On Sunday a presentation was made to Michael Percival to thank him for running the indoor tournaments for the last eight years. To mark the impending Christmas festival Colin Hemming kindly provided glasses of the appropriately named Croquet aperitif.
David Kitson
No fewer than 9 clubs entered, each providing two and, in two cases, three teams. The entries were divided into two groups with the winner of each group playing a final match. Each match was played on a times and handicapped points system with no limit on the handicap. Saturday's finalists were David and Helen Manley (Newport 2) and Don Barrett and Peggy Kenny (Wrest Park 1). A very closely matched final saw Newport 2 winning. Sunday's finalists were Ann Sweeney and Brian Cash (Bury St Edmunds 1) and Batty and Roger Lambert (Letchworth 2). Another very close final was won by Bury St Edmunds 1. I would like to thank all those clubs and players who took part in this most enjoyable weekend's golf tournament. I hope to see even more clubs and players at our next Indoor Golf Event at Soham on 13/14th January. |
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Tony Marks |
Seven teams competed in the first indoor tournament of the season. With a rather patchy entry some of the teams could fairly be described as hybrid. Thus while Colchester and St Albans were both represented by two pairs there were also composite teams from Downips (Downham Market and Ipswich) and Northwich (Northampton and Norwich). Letchworth looked like a team with a solid foundation but in fact turned out to be Duncan Hector partnered by anybody who wasn't playing for someone else at the time. In fact, Duncan was clearly able to inspire his partners to raise their game (or perhaps he was just shrewd in picking them) to the extent that he won 5 of his 6 games, a total only equalled by St Albans B (Terry Mahoney and newcomer Jon Palin), St Albans being declared the winner on the basis of net points won.
David Kitson