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GC Open Series Tournament
part of the National GC Open Tournament Series
Golf Croquet
The Tournament is an open two-day Golf Croquet Level Play Singles competition
for unrestricted handicaps, staged at Watford as part of CqE's national Open
Series tournaments in the
Croquet England fixtures calendar.
Open GC Tournament
results by year:
Title:
Golf Croquet Open Series Tournament
Handicaps:
: any
Date:
Saturday 30 - Sunday 31 August
Capacity:
16
Manager:
Simon Hathrell
Secretary:
Eddie Chung :
Eddie Chungclick on link to send an email : 07806 639257
Address: please ask, or log in and obtain it from the
CqE member's directory
Entries:
Allocation: 29 June; Closing: 25 August Those who wish to enter and pay online may do so
through the CqE website in same way as entering a CqE Tournament.
Alternatively, postal entries should be submitted together with entry fee using the standard
CqE Tournament entry form.
Entry fee:
£25 (CqE Premium members), others £39. Pay online
(see above) or by cheque to the secretary, payable to "Watford
(Cassiobury) Croquet Club".
Format:
AMD, provisionally the standard Series format if full capacity.
Players must be prepared to play up to 8 games per day.
This tournament forms part of the National GC Open Tournament Series.
Tea, soft drinks and biscuits are provided free of charge, and a cold lunch will be available for a small fee.
Details of parking and other arrangements will be sent to participants before the event.
This year the tournament was nearly up to full capacity with 14
entrants. The standard Series format for an entry of 14 is a block stage
with 7 rounds played in two cross-blocks of 7, followed on the second day
by a best-of-3 knock-out for the top 4 from each block and an
all-play-all block of 6 for the remainder. The weather forecast for the
Saturday wasn't so good with the prospect of rain arriving in late
afternoon, so it was with some relief that the block stage was just
about finished when the rain actually arrived.
Winner Kim Taylor
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In the 'A' block Mike Hills was playing well and finished top on 6/7,
continuing a good run this season which had seen his handicap come down
from 2 to 0, while Kevin Connolly had rather a tough time and only
managed 2/7, failing to reach the main knock-out. Thomas Halliday also
put in a good performance which included quite a few spectacular long
jump attempts, finishing on 5/7 along with Konstantin Yudintsev who was
notable for a lot of strong clearances.
In the 'B' block the newcomer Cengiz Kaya (handicap 5) put in a
creditable performance, including a surprise 7-2 win against Kevin and a
couple of close 6-7 defeats against Konstantin Yudintsev (-1) and Joshua
Wise (0), so he was perhaps a bit unlucky to finish on only 1/7. Cengiz had
started the season as an 11 handicap but had been cut a 5 after a couple
of handicapper interventions. The 'B' block honours went to Toby Toller
on 6/7, losing only to Thomas Halliday, followed by Kim Taylor and Paul
Gunn on 5/7.
In the main knock-out on the following day the weather was better,
though the possibility of fitting in up to 9 games in 3 rounds of
best-of-3 rubbers was a bit of a concern to several, especially those
with long return journeys. Mike Hills continued to show good form with
some particularly accurate hoop running, dispatching Joshua Wise in two
games. The other three quarter-finals were all closely contested, with
Konstantin, Kim and Toby all emerging as 2/1 winners. In the semi-final
Mike managed to beat top seed Konstantin in three games, and Kim stepped
up a gear to beat Toby in a more convincing couple of games. That led to
a final between Mike and Kim, a repeat of their block stage encounter
which Mike had won on the previous day. But this time Kim was playing
better with some particularly good clearances, and he emerged the
overall winner in a couple of games. The upshot was that with some
curtailed loser play-offs, in the end nobody actually played more than 7
games on the second day and the event finished at a sensible time in the
early evening.
Meanwhile in the 5-round Plate for the bottom 6 from the first day,
it turned into a close-run race between Kevin Connolly and Geoff
Johnson. Kevin beat Geoff in their individual encounter and avenged his
earlier defeat by Cengiz, but lost narrowly to Stephen Webb. When the
dust had settled on the block Kevin and Geoff were tied on both 4/5 wins
and +12 on net hoops, so Kevin won the Plate as he had beaten Geoff.
Mary Rose
GC Inter-Club Championship
SC One-Day (Jul)
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