Jenny Clarke is playing at the Womens’ GC World Championships, being held at the Sussex County Croquet Club, England from 7th to 14th August 2023.
Find results at https://croquetscores.com/2023/gc/7th-wcf-womens-golf-croquet-world-championship Jenny is in Block D.
or watch the action at https://www.youtube.com/CroquetEngland
You can see Jenny playing on Day 1, Session 2 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tlc33i_rYA&t=2954s
Good luck to UCC member Jenny Clarke and Associate member Logan McCorkindale, who are playing in the 2023 Association Croquet World Championship being held in London from 15 to 23 July.
Details about the championship are on
https://hurlinghamclub.org.uk/hurlingham-home/2023-ac-world-championship
Live streaming is on YouTube, search for Croquet England to find it.
Results are on Croquet Scores
https://croquetscores.com/2023/ac/18th-wcf-association-croquet-world-championship
The 2023 CCA prizegiving was held on Sunday 16 April and United members were busy collecting awards.
Interclub winners were
AC Interclub – Steve Costigan and Betty Hall.
GC Interclub, Division 2 – Denise McLoughlin, Louis Inglewood, Betty Inglewood, Geoff Price.
GC Interclub, Division 3 – Steve Parry, Barbara Parry, Alastair Smithies, Jill Smithies.
Millennium Trophy (GC) winner was United.
This trophy is awarded to the club which, having entered at least three teams in midweek GC interclub competitions, records the highest score from games in the interclub matches, calculated according to the separate Millennium Trophy rules.
AC Interclub winners – Steve Costigan and Betty Hall
GC Division 2 Interclub winners – Denise McLoughlin, Louis Inglewood, Betty Inglewood, Geoff Price
GC Division 3 Interclub winners – Steve Parry, Barbara Parry, Alastair Smithies, Jill Smithies
Millennium Cup – some of Team United.
We appreciate the support of the Margaret Stoddart Retirement Village who sponsored the Maud Trainor Competition. The competition was held over four Friday mornings, three in February and the final on 3rd March.
Thank you to all those who took part and congratulations to the following:
Winner: Karin Taemmler (Hornby)
Runner-up: Judy Derby (United)
Third: Heather Ponder (United)
Fourth: Patsy Clegg (St James)
Tony O’Donnell managed the competition and prizes were presented by Lynne Bretherton, sales advisor for two Ryman Healthcare retirement villages, including Margaret Stoddart.
Lynne Bretherton with Karin Taemmler (1st place) and Tony O’Donnell.
Lynne Bretherton with Judy Derby (runner up) and Tony O’Donnell.
Lynne Bretherton with Patsy Clegg (4th place) and Tony O’Donnell.
Congratulations to Carol Pilbrough (United) and Rosalie Gunn (Elmwood) on winning the Muriel Foster competition held on Sunday 13 November. This was doubles competition for teams with a combined handicap of 16 or more.
Carol, Lesley Kain (Elmwood GC Club Captain), Vilna Gough-Jones (CCA President) and Rosalie with their trophies.
Congratulations to United’s Steve Costigan, who achieved a Silver Merit Award for completing a break of 12 hoops without using bisques in his 26:3 win during the CCA AC Interclub competition earlier this month (this post is copied from the Croquet New Zealand Facebook page)
Congratulations to the team from United who took part in the recent South Island Masters Games held in Timaru and neighbouring croquet clubs of Waimate and Geraldine.
It was a very friendly and enjoyable 3 days of competition with both singles and doubles matches played. United members did very well, bringing home several medals.
Congratulations to United club member, Jenny Clarke, who has won the British Women’s Championship for the fifth time. Full results are at https://croquetscores.com/2022/ac/mens-womens-championship
Jenny is currently playing in the British GC Open. Follow the results at https://croquetscores.com/2022/gc/british-open-championship
The Maud Trainor competition was held at the United Croquet Club during the four Fridays of February. With thirty competitors, a seventh lawn was formed with four full sized and three 80+% courts.
This is a largely social Golf Croquet event with two timed games of one hour each day. Rather unusually drawn games are allowed with each player awarded a half point.
Played as a flexible Swiss event, competitors must be available for at least three of the four days to qualify for a placing.
This format often means the games get tighter as the rounds progress. Both John Yarrall (first) and Ken Lowe (second) lost one match but John, playing all four days won seven out of eight (88%) of his games beating Ken’s five wins from six games (83%).
The third to fifth prize winners (Geoff Price, Jude Derby and Betty Inglewood) all had a draw scoring five and a half out of eight games (69%) with the placings decided by the strength of their opponents.
Detailed results are here.
While we are in COVID Level 4 lockdown I decided to sort out some of my United Croquet papers in preparation for the time when I can hand them over to a new club secretary (any offers?).
I came across an envelope with several items relating to the MacRobertson Shield test series held at United in 2000. It included newspaper clippings from The Press and commentaries by Graham Beale (NZ Open winner and former MacRobertson Shield NZ team member) and John Taves, the USA team captain.
After many hours of scanning the original paper copies, converting to text and correcting, formatting and assembling the result is two PDF documents, one with images of the original documents and one with clear text (with photos) that is easier to read.
These can be viewed on the club website Photos-MacRobertson shield 2000.
This is part of the project where we are capturing photos and other club historical information to preserve them and make them available to members. Click on the Photos link on the menu.
If you have photos and other items that should be preserved, let me know.
John Yarrall
United Croquet Club 