Bury Croquet Club - 2008 Season. |
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Coronation Park |
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Highlight of this year's dinner was Club President David Barrett receiving the CA's highest award (CA Diploma). Seen here, having it presented to him by Mr Colin Irwin, CA VP & Chair CA International Committee. |
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Club Finals Day Sat Sept 27th
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| Game AC 26pt Advanced AC 26pt Hcp AC 14pt Hcp Golf 13pt Hcp Golf 13pt High Hcp |
WINNER Paul Rigge Paul Kenworthy Tony Phillips Paul Rigge Pam Hunter |
2nd Tony Phillips Margaret Anderson Colleen Folkin Barbara Gillar Joan Langridge |
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Heaton Park Sept 20/21st |
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| Bury Croquet Club's annual Fun Doubles (and barbecue) was held on Saturday with some fourteen participants. The traditional game played is short-lawn alternate shot doubles, each pair having one player from the stronger and one from the weaker half of the field. The winner from the strong group was Graham Saunders, with four wins out of four games. The weaker-group winner was Joan Langridge with three out of four. An addition this year was a game aimed at the non-Association players with victory shared between Sheila Bruckshaw and Barbara Giller |
| Game Joker 10 Min Bonus Straight Line |
WINNER Sheila Bruckshaw Sheila Bruckshaw Ros Pimlott (Bowdon) Eric Charters (Culcheth) |
2nd Margaret Yates Anne Connop (Culcheth) Margaret Yates Mick Sandiford |
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Solomon Trophy - Heaton Park2nd July 2008GB retain 21 - 6Only Sextuple this year, followed by an octuple to win the last rubber, how does it feel Keith? |
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Loads of media interest as GB take on USA - not all of it on the play. |
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LONGMAN CUP - Coronation Park 27th June 2008Bury Vs Pendle & Craven, Bury win 5-2After a full day of heavy rain the day before, the lawns were slower than normal. At lunch the home team had their nose in front, then after lunch, the experienced ‘Young’s’ secured the place in round 3 of this year's Cup run. Malcolm Hardman as Bury Captain, brought in the extra point for a final score of 5-2.Full Results, Bury team first Barbara & Geoff Young Vs Robin & Peter -17 Malcolm Hardman Vs Andrew Webb +18 Graham Saunders Vs Abdul Ahmad +12 Barbara Young(5) Vs Andrew Webb(5) +17 Geoff Young(11) Vs Abdul Ahmad (7) +22 Malcolm Hardman(14) Vs Robin Delves(10) +1t Graham Saunders(16) Vs Peter Dewhurst(22) -4t |
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Heaton Park June 21/22nd |
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KO Round 1 David Walters +19 vs Peter McDermott Liz Wilson +1T vs Mel Foster Peter Wilson +2 vs Tom Griffith David Barrett +6 vs John Wastell Round 2 David Walters +17tp vs Alan Pidcock Andrew Winn +13 vs Liz Wilson Ray Lowe +26 vs Peter Wilson Ken Cooper +18tp Round 3 David Walters +7 vs Andrew Winn Ken Cooper +14 vs Ray Lowe Final BO3 David Walters -21, +15, +14 vs Ken Cooper. |
Swiss;
Andrew Winn beat Ken Cooper +17tp Ray Lowe beat Alan Pidcock +1T John Wastell beat Mel Foster +6 Tom Griffith beat Peter McDermott +15 David Barrett beat Peter Wilson +11 Alan Pidcock beat Liz Wilson +16 John Wastell beat Tom Griffith +17 Peter McDermott beat Mel Foster +11 Andrew Winn beat Ray Lowe +23 Tom Griffith beat Liz Wilson +21 Alan Pidcock beat Mel Foster +17 Peter McDermott beat David Barrett +2T John Wastell beat Peter Wilson +3T Tom Griffith beat Alan Pidcock +15 Peter Wilson beat Mel Foster +15 Ray Lowe beat David Barrett +17 Andrew Winn beat John Wastell +10 Peter McDermott beat Liz Wilson +17 |
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31st May 2008Bury members celebrate 20 years since foundation |
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The 8th Lancashire International Open Golf Championship
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Twenty contenders spent the Saturday in two blocks of ten, in a format giving each 8 games.
Block A was won by Ian lines with seven wins, Brian Storey and John Moore winning six and the fourth qualifier
on who-beat-who from a three-way tie on five being Freda Vitty. In Block B four six-game winners were similarly put into the sequence Chris Sheen, Samantha Curry, David Openshaw and Tim King. This meant that in the KO phase on Sunday Ian and Tim met in a quarter-final. Overnight weather had delayed the start so they were put on the first playable lawn, 50 yards from the pavilion, much to the disappointed crowd who now had a poor view. The other three lawns trickled in later, so the average time loss was about an hour. The weather then cleared and progress was steady, the final fittingly being the last game to finish ( just before six) with Tim beating Chris 6-7 7-4 7-4. The 12 non-qualifiers played a round robin of doubles won by Dave Turner and Fergus Thompson. |
The Neil Williams Advanced Tournament,
'A' won by Andrew Winn
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Winn 6/7 Walters 5/5 |
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| The Northwest Federation's Millennium Advanced tournament took place once more at Heaton Park on the weekend 5-6 April. Eight contestants each in the A and B categories assembled bright and early on Saturday with a brisk wintry wind blowing. On the Sunday the start was bright sunshine on a scattering of fresh snow, leading to a delay until the greenkeeper gave his ok. |
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In the B grade David Walters made few slips in winning all five games that time permitted.
In the last round Mark Lloyd nearly came good to sneak in on who-beat-who but David pegged out his front
ball with the other for Rover and then held out to pick up the Woodlands Trophy. |
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Burnett beat Ken Cooper +13
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Alan Mayne bt Elmyr Hughes +3T John Wastell bt Barbara Young +3 David Walters bt John Wilkinson +15 Mark Lloyd bt Ken Anderton +16T Wastell bt Lloyd +8T Anderton bt Hughes +1T Wilkinson bt Young +5T Walters bt Mayne +17 Walters bt Wastell +3 Lloyd bt Mayne +12 Wilkinson bt Anderton +2T Hughes bt Young +2T (Hughes and Young withdrew) Walters bt Anderton +16 Lloyd bt Wilkinson +16 Mayne bt Wastell +4T Walters bt Lloyd +2 Mayne bt Anderton +20 Wilkinson/Wastell snow stopped play |
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| 2008 Honours; | ||
| Internal - Competitions | ||
| Full Lawn Association Advanced | Winner - Paul Rigge | Runner-up Tony Phillips |
| Full Lawn Handicap | Winner - Paul Kenworthy | Runner-up Margaret Anderson |
| Short Lawn Handicap | Winner - Tony Phillips | Runner-up Colleen Folkin |
| Golf Croquet 13 point | Winner - Paul Rigge | Runner-up Barbara Gillar |
| Golf Croquet 13 point High Hcp | Winner - Pam Hunter | Runner-up Joan Langridge |
| Club | North West Federation | Runners up in Advanced, Hcp & Golf. |
| 'Fun' - Competitions | ||
| Fun Doubles | Winner - Graham Saunders & Joan Langridge | |
| Golf Doubles | Winner - Sheila Bruckshaw & Barbara Giller | |
| Hosted Open - Competitions | ||
| Ten Minute | Winner - | |
| Flamingoes | Winner - | |
| Ten Minute Golf | Winner - Sheila Bruckshaw | |
| Joker - Golf | Winner - Sheila Bruckshaw | |
| Straight Line Golf | Winner - Eric Charters (Culcheth) | |
| Bonus Golf | Winner - Ros Pimlott (Bowdon) |