Association Croquet
The Longman Cup is a national
inter-club croquet tournament that is run each year in England
and Wales. Club teams comprise 4 players who must each have
handicaps between 3.5 and 20, and with their aggregate handicap
exceeding 24. It is a knock-out competition within each region,
played with handicaps, with the regional winners progressing to
the national semi-finals and final at the end of the season.
Fixtures contact: Simon
Hathrell
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Watford has had a strong record in this event, having won it in 2001
and been losing national finalists in 2003. In 2004 the Club won the first two rounds and then lost to Colchester in the regional final. In 2005 the Club again won the first two rounds, and then lost to Newport in the regional final. |
Longman Cup match results by year:
Date | Opponents | Venue | Results (Watford names first) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Round 1 Sat 10 Jun |
Roehampton | Away | WON 5-2(Net index points: +40)
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Round 2 Sun 9 Jul |
Norwich | Home | LOST 3-4(Net index points: 0)
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Name | Singles W-L |
Doubles W-L |
Total W-L |
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John Smallbone | 2-0 | 0-0 | 2-0 |
John Moore | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
Mark Homan | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
John Bee | 1-0 | 0-1 | 1-1 |
Bill Gillott | 1-0 | 0-1 | 1-1 |
Adam Huby | 1-0 | 0-1 | 1-1 |
David Drazin | 1-0 | 0-1 | 1-1 |
Quiller Barrett | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-2 |
Totals | 8-4 | 0-2 | 8-6 |
The full knock-out table for this
year's results and an archive
of the results back to 1989 for all clubs are maintained by the Croquet
Association.