Club Champions Tournament
by year:
Association Croquet
Manager: Terrey Sparks
The 2021 (AC) Club Champions tournament proved as popular an event as ever, attracting a full entry in all three categories, which this year was staged again at the Wrest Park club. Despite an adverse weather report the day turned out to be mainly fine and dry and the excellent conditions of the lawns led to some very good play.
Attracting four entries, play was of a high standard in which 3 games were concluded by triple peels. However, last year's winner Nick Mounfield had lost none of his form and ran out winner of the group, winning all three of his games quite convincingly.
6 entries took part in this block which was hard fought right to the end. There was the possibility of 3 players ending up on 2 wins apiece. However, this would only occur if David Frost could beat Heather Bennett in their last game. This was not to be as the last year's holder held her nerve, running out a three-way winner and therefore holding on to the trophy.
Unusually for a handicap competition, this year contained a minus player Bryan Harral playing off -½. Despite this Bryan did not have an easy run. He won all his games and coped well with the handicap gap, although just winning all his games with scores very close.
Many thanks go to the Wrest Park club for making their lawns available to the Federation, and thanks to George Collin the groundsman and his helpers for setting thing up and looking after us for the weekend.
 'A' block winner Nick Mounfield |
 'B' block winner Heather Bennett |
 'C' block winner Bryan Harral |
| Player | Club | H'cap | NM | DM | JW | GB | Wins | Rank |
| Nick Mounfield | Letchworth | -2 | +26tp | +10 | +25 | 3 | 1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Marsh | Wrest Park | -1 | -26tp | +15 | +26tp | 2 | 2 | |
| Jack Wicks | Colchester | -1½ | -17 | -15 | +23tp | 1 | 3 | |
| Gary Bennett | Watford | 1 | -25 | -26tp | -23tp | 0 | 4 |
| Player | Club | H'cap | HB | AR | DN | TS | DF | JT | Wins | Rank |
| Heather Bennett | Letchworth | 2 | +9 | +17 | +17 | 3 | 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Reed | Watford | 3 | -9 | +1 | +17 | 2 | ||||
| Dan Neale | Newport | 3 | -17 | +14 | +5 | 2 | ||||
| Terrey Sparks | Pinchbeck | 3 | -1 | -14 | +23 | 1 | ||||
| David Frost | Enfield | 4 | -17 | -5 | +12 | 1 | ||||
| Jonathan Toye | Downham Market | 4 | -17 | -23 | -12 | 0 |
| Player | Club | H'cap | BH | AH | JN | SC | MB | BS | Wins | Rank |
| Bryan Harral | Wrest Park | -½ | +7 | +7 | +3 | 3 | 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Huby | Watford | 8 | -7 | +6 | +5 | 2 | 2 | |||
| John Noble | Letchworth | 5 | -6 | +7 | +14 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Simon Conran | Bury St. Edmunds | 6 | -7 | -7 | +10 | 1 | ||||
| Michael Broadway | Enfield | 11 | -5 | -14 | +1 | 1 | ||||
| Bryan Saddington | Downham Market | 5 | -3 | -10 | -1 | 0 |
All games: 2½ hours time limit.
Tie breaking: who beat whom, or a shoot-out at Manager's discretion.
